Kansas Foreign Registration / Withdrawing

Kansas Form FC: closing a foreign registration

Certificate of Cancellation, Foreign (non-Kansas) Business is Form FC, and a business ends its Kansas registration with it. Online the fee is $30, and a paper filing costs $35. It is also called a Certificate of Withdrawal. It has 4 numbered sections and is filed under K.S.A. 17-7936.

Form FC in brief

Title: Certificate of Cancellation, Foreign (non-Kansas) Business
Also called: Certificate of Withdrawal
Statute: K.S.A. 17-7936
Fee, online: $30
Fee, paper: $35
Must first be: In good standing or showing as registered
Online route: The close-a-business page on the Secretary of State site
Revision: Dated 1/23/26

Before you file: the status test

Kansas allows a closing document only from a business in good standing. If the business is delinquent, meaning it missed an information report but is inside the three-month window, it must file the report before the closing document. If it has forfeited, it must reinstate first. A business is delinquent when it missed an information report but is still inside the three-month window, and forfeited once that window has run. An LLC reinstates on Form RL, and a corporation on Form RR. Check the status on the Business Entity Search page before preparing the form, because a forfeited status turns a $30 filing into a reinstatement of several hundred dollars first. See the late registration page for those totals.

The four sections

Section	What it asks	How to answer
1	Business ID or file number	The number Kansas issued when it registered the business, which is not a tax ID; the business search shows it
2	Name of the business	Exactly as on record with Kansas, with the LLC, Inc. or LLP ending
3	Where service of process may be delivered	A street address, in or outside Kansas, no PO box
4	Signature	An authorized person, with a printed name

Printed above section 3 is a line naming the Kansas Secretary of State to receive legal papers for the business. Above section 4 sits the surrender of authority to transact business in Kansas, made under K.S.A. 17-7936.

What the statute adds

The text of K.S.A. 17-7936 says a certificate of cancellation is filed together with a fee and the business entity information report and its fee. It also says the filing of a certificate of dissolution or cancellation from the home state has the same effect as the Kansas certificate. A delinquent business must file its report before the closing document, and we confirm whether a report goes with your closing when we prepare it.

After the filing

Withdrawing ends the right to do business in Kansas. The state office still keeps its power to take service of process for claims from the time the business worked here, which is why section 3 asks where those papers should be mailed. Keep that address current with the office. The online route is on the Secretary of State's close-a-business page; the paper route is a mailed form with a check or a card cover page.

Withdrawing compared with letting it forfeit

A business may file a closing document or simply let its status forfeit by not filing one. A forfeited business cannot file anything else until it is reinstated, and reinstatement carries the fees on the costs page. A closing document avoids that bill if the business does come back, because the registration is then closed in good standing and not forfeited. Which is better depends on whether it expects to.

Other ways a registration ends or changes

A registration can end or change in other ways. A merger involving a registered foreign business is handled by a certificate of merger. A non-Kansas business cannot switch to a different non-Kansas business type with a conversion; it must withdraw its current registration and submit a new foreign application. If that is what happened to your business, Form FC is the first of two filings.

Taxes and other agencies

Cancelling the registration does not close the business's tax accounts, licenses or bank relationships in Kansas. The Secretary of State's page points to the Kansas Business One Stop for the other agencies. Settle those before or alongside the Form FC.

Filing Form FC

Check the status
Good standing or registered; otherwise reinstate or file the past due report first.
Find the ID number
The Business Entity Search page shows it.
Enter the service address
A street address where legal papers can still reach the business.
Sign and pay
$30 online, or $35 by check or card on paper.
Keep the certified copy
The state returns one when processing is done.

Form FC questions

What does it cost to withdraw?

$30 online or $35 on paper.

Can a forfeited business file Form FC?

No. It must reinstate first.

Does withdrawing stop all Kansas claims?

No. Kansas keeps the authority to accept service for claims from the time the business worked here.

We prepare Form FC

Our fee and the state's

Kansas's fee is a separate line at checkout and is the same for every kind of business. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Register in Kansas

$199

+ $115 Kansas fee

Form FA, the Application for Registration, Foreign (non-Kansas) Business, completed from your answers
The sworn good standing statement the form carries, ready for an authorized person to sign
A Kansas resident agent and registered office: ours, or the ones you already use
The packet mailed with payment, and the certified copy Kansas returns passed on to you
Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

Sources

Already working in Kansas?

Tell us the month you began and we price any back reports with the registration.