Kansas Foreign Registration / Wyoming

Bringing a Wyoming LLC into Kansas: costs, forms and dates

A Wyoming LLC pays $115 to register in Kansas and keeps up Wyoming's $60 annual minimum, so the first year costs $175 before our fee. Kansas takes no certificate from Wyoming, so the free online one never goes in the envelope, though a look at the LLC's Wyoming standing before signing is still sensible. Form FA treats a Wyoming company like any other, and the two states run separate calendars.

Wyoming against Kansas

Point	Wyoming	Kansas
Good standing paper	$0 online, and not needed for Kansas	A sworn statement on Form FA
Registering	Nothing to file at home	Form FA, $115
Recurring payment	Annual minimum $60	Information report, $90 online
Agent	A Wyoming agent	A Kansas resident agent with a Kansas street address
Rhythm	Every year	Every second year, by April 15

Standing at home still matters

On the Kansas form the signer declares, under penalty of perjury, that as of the day of filing the foreign business exists in good standing under the laws of its home jurisdiction. A Wyoming certificate costs $0 when issued online, so it is easy to pull one for your own records before signing even though Kansas does not ask for it.

Transcribing the Wyoming facts

Take the exact name and the formation date from the Wyoming record, enter Wyoming as the jurisdiction, and describe the work the company will do in Kansas. The name must match the home record, because Kansas does not register assumed names. A Wyoming agent does not cross the border; the form needs a separate Kansas resident agent with a Kansas street address. For section 8, describe the Wyoming company's Kansas work in a line or two; leave section 6 blank when work begins on the filing date.

What becomes public

Everything filed with the Kansas Secretary of State is a public record and may be viewable online. The application covers the business, its agent and its Kansas work. It does not ask who the members are. If privacy was the reason for choosing Wyoming, how much detail to put in a public Kansas record is a question for a business lawyer.

Reading the good standing line as a Wyoming signer

Before the manager signs, look the LLC up on the Wyoming Secretary of State's business search and print the status page. File that printout with your Kansas copy. If the status is anything other than active, fix it first, since the Kansas form has the signer declare the opposite under penalty of perjury. This is a precaution rather than a Kansas requirement.

Choosing the registration year

Kansas ties the information report cycle to the year of registration, so the parity of your registration year, even or odd, is the parity of every report year afterward.

The costs that follow

Once registered, you owe Kansas $90 online for the report every second year, while Wyoming's $60 minimum keeps coming each year. A later exit from Kansas costs $30 online. Registering in one state leaves the other state's charges as they were.

First-year total

$115 for Kansas and $60 for Wyoming come to $175. The Kansas report adds $90 when its year arrives.

Example: an irrigation crew in Salina

A Wyoming LLC that fits irrigation equipment sends a crew to Salina for weeks at a time and keeps a rented yard there. The work is repeated and staffed, not an isolated deal, so the company registers. It names a Salina firm as agent, leaves the start-date box blank, signs the good standing statement after checking Wyoming records, and mails Form FA with a check. Its Wyoming minimum continues on the Wyoming schedule.

Members and owners

A single-owner Wyoming LLC registers the way a multi-owner one does. The Kansas application lists no members, and no member becomes liable for the company's debts only because it worked in Kansas unregistered. Registering is about the company's right to use Kansas courts and its good standing there.

What Kansas asks that Wyoming did not

Wyoming asks for one yearly payment. Kansas adds three duties: a resident agent whose registered office has a Kansas street address, an information report every second year by April 15, and a filing that travels by mail. None of the three interferes with Wyoming's calendar.

Registering a Wyoming LLC in Kansas

Confirm Wyoming standing
The statement on the Kansas form rests on it.
Choose a Kansas agent
A Kansas street address, never a PO box.
Check the name
Kansas name availability search.
Complete and sign Form FA
Legal name, Wyoming, formation date, Kansas work.
Mail it
$115 by check or card.

Wyoming questions

Do I need a Wyoming certificate for Kansas?

No. A signer vouches for good standing on the Kansas form itself.

Does Kansas publish my members?

The application never asks for them.

Will Kansas registration change what I file in Wyoming?

No. Wyoming's fees and dates stay as they were.

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.