Idaho Foreign Registration · Registered agent
What Idaho requires of a foreign LLC's registered agent
Changing a registered agent in Idaho costs $20 on paper, with no base fee, and every registered foreign entity has to keep one at a physical street address in the state. We can act as your Idaho agent on the Foreign Registration Statement.
Agent rules at a glance
- Required
- a registered foreign entity must designate and maintain a registered agent in Idaho
- Who qualifies
- an individual who lives in Idaho, or a business entity authorized to do business in Idaho
- Address
- a physical street address in Idaho; no P.O. boxes or commercial personal mailboxes
- Availability
- The agent must be available during normal business hours
- Change of agent
- Statement of Change of Registered Agent, Registered Office, or Both, no base fee, $20 on paper
- Report a change within
- Thirty days
Who can serve
Idaho's list is short. The agent must be reachable during ordinary business hours at a street address inside the state, which rules out post office boxes. A person qualifies by living in Idaho, and a company qualifies by being authorized to do business here. Assumed business names, the DBA kind, cannot take the role, and the Secretary of State endorses no one in particular.
Being your own agent
You can serve as your own registered agent if you have a physical address in Idaho. A professional agent charges a yearly fee, and it has to be arranged before the filing, since the agent's name and address go on the statement. A friend or an employee who lives in Idaho can serve, if they will really be at that address during the working day.
What the agent does
The agent receives legal papers and notices for the entity. The Secretary of State describes the role as receiving official documents and legal notices on the business's behalf. An agent who is not at the address puts the entity at risk of a missed lawsuit. By naming an agent the entity affirms that the agent consented (Idaho Code 30-21-404(b)).
Changing the agent or the office
Use the Statement of Change of Registered Agent, Registered Office, or Both. Its base fee is nothing, with the $20 manual processing fee on paper. In practice, a change of agent is signed by an officer, an LLC member or manager, or a general partner, and by the new agent as acceptance; the agent alone may sign a change of the registered office address. If the agent's own name or address changes, report it within 30 days, or the registration is open to termination (Idaho Code 30-21-511(a)(3)). The business mailing address is changed separately. A change of the business mailing address is made by the preprinted form or a letter or memo showing the old and new address and signed by an officer, member, manager or general partner.
If you have no agent
An entity with no registered agent can have its registration terminated. The notice goes to the principal office when there is no agent to receive it, effective at least 60 days after delivery. Appoint an agent before then and the registration continues. The Secretary of State also publishes a list of filings that name agents, kept for at least fourteen days.
A person or a service
An individual agent can move, retire or stop answering the door, and each of those turns into a change filing and a thirty-day clock. A service has staff, set hours and a record of passing papers on, which is what you are paying the yearly fee for. Whichever you choose, write down the agent's address and phone number where the company's own records can find them.
Using us as the agent
Our own service can fill the agent role for the entities we register, part of the registration order for year one, renewal rate shown at checkout. In both cases, get the agent's agreement first, since naming an agent affirms that the agent consented to serve.
Agent questions
Can the agent be a P.O. box service?
No. The address must be a physical street address, and commercial mailboxes are not accepted.
Must the agent be a company?
No. An individual who lives in Idaho qualifies.
Does it cost to change agents?
There is no base fee. On paper the $20 manual processing fee applies.
Our fee and Idaho's
Register in Idaho
Idaho$199
+ $100 Idaho fee
- Your Foreign Registration Statement, drafted from the details you give us
- A certificate of existence (certificate of good standing) from the home state, requested and dated for the filing
- An Idaho registered agent with a street address: ours, or the one you already use
- Online filing with the Secretary of State, so no paper surcharge applies
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
Our fee and Idaho's fee show as separate lines, and checkout gives the exact total before you pay. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Sources
- Idaho Secretary of State, business forms and fees
- Idaho Code 30-21-214, fees
- Idaho Secretary of State, business FAQ
- Idaho Code 30-21-503, foreign registration statement
- Idaho Statement of Change of Registered Agent, Registered Office, or Both
- Idaho Foreign Registration Statement form and instructions
- Idaho Code 30-21-402, entities required to maintain a registered agent
- Idaho Secretary of State, starting a business and registered agent requirements
- Idaho Code 30-21-404, designation of registered agent
- Idaho Code 30-21-511, termination of registration
Opening for business in Idaho?
Tell us what kind of entity you run and its home state. We handle the statement, the certificate and the agent.