Oregon Foreign Registration / Application

The Oregon application for authority, point by point

The Oregon Application for Authority to Transact Business, Foreign Limited Liability Company costs $275 and sets out 8 points, from the LLC's name and home registry number to its Oregon agent and management type. Our charge to prepare it is $199.

The eight points

Point	What Oregon asks	Source of the answer
1	Name, or the longer form if it clashes	Home record
2	State or country of organization	Home record
3	Registry number from the home jurisdiction	Home record
4	Date of organization; perpetual or a dissolution date	Home record
5	Principal office address and mailing address	Your records
6	Oregon registered office and agent	Your agent choice
7	Statement that the LLC meets the prohibited-activity rule	Printed declaration
8	Member-managed or manager-managed	Your operating agreement

The online form adds a short activity description, a notices address and a renewal-notice choice.

The filing at a glance

Fee	$275
Filed with	Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division
Law	ORS 63.701 to 63.707
Home proof	Registry number or a certificate under 60 days old
Route	Online through the Business Registry, or by mail
Renews	Annual report, $275

Who signs

An authorized person for the LLC signs the declaration at the end of the application, using the exact wording the form prints. The Secretary of State accepts the filing once it conforms to the statute.

Point 1: the name

The name must match the home record exactly, including punctuation, in the English alphabet, and may include Arabic and Roman numerals. Oregon checks it against active names. On a clash, the application gives an extended name that adds the home state, and that extended name is the one the LLC must use in Oregon afterward.

Points 2 to 4: the home details

The home state or country, the registry number it assigned (called an entity number or file number in some states) and the organization date come from the home record. The registry number matters: Oregon uses it to verify the LLC online, and where the home state has no online search a certificate must go in instead. Duration is perpetual for most LLCs; if it is not, give the latest date on which the LLC dissolves.

Point 5: the principal office

The principal office address is a street address (not a box), in the home jurisdiction or in Oregon, and it cannot be a mailbox, forwarding service or virtual office. A separate mailing address for notices, where renewal notices go, may be a post office box.

Point 6: the registered office and agent

The Oregon registered office is a street address in the state that takes personal delivery of legal papers, together with the name of the agent working there. The agent can be a person or one of the listed entity types. The statement of change that replaces an agent later carries no Oregon fee.

Point 7: the printed declaration

The application carries a printed statement that the LLC will not do in Oregon what an Oregon LLC may not lawfully do. It is a standard statement, and a legal declaration at the end of the form must be signed using the exact wording.

Point 8: how the LLC is managed

Choose the management statement that applies to the LLC in its home jurisdiction: member-managed or manager-managed. The online form then lets you list members or managers, which is optional, though most Oregon banks want at least one on the record.

Home certificate or registry number

The certificate is not always needed. Where the home state publishes a free searchable list of LLCs, Oregon skips the certificate and relies on the registry number. When it is needed it must be a certificate of existence or good standing, current within 60 days and authenticated by the home official.

Fee and routes

The fee is $275, paid with the filing. Online filing goes through the Business Registry; paper forms go by mail, and the Secretary of State does not take forms or payments by email.

After the filing

Oregon checks the name, processes a conforming application and returns an acknowledgment. The first annual report is due on the first anniversary.

Why applications come back

Filings come back for a name at odds with the home record, a P.O. box or virtual office as the registered office, a home certificate older than the limit when one is required, an unsigned declaration, or an agent who has not agreed to serve. We check each before filing.

Filing the application through us

Send your answers
Name, home state, registry number, agent, management type, activity.
We check the name
Against Oregon active names.
We arrange the proof
The registry number, or a dated certificate.
An authorized person signs
The declaration at the end.
We file
With the $275 fee.

Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year

$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Application questions

Can I list a PO box?

For notices, yes. For the principal office and registered office, no.

Is the activity description public?

The filing becomes public record, so keep it short and general.

Have the application filed

Oregon

Our fee and Oregon's

Register in Oregon

$275 Oregon fee + $199

Oregon's fee is $275. It appears on its own line at checkout. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

$199

Oregon Foreign Registration

The Oregon application filled in from your answers
Your name checked against Oregon records first
An Oregon registered agent, ours or yours
The authority record returned when Oregon issues it
Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

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