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Alaska Foreign Registration / Filing it yourself

Registering a foreign LLC in Alaska yourself

Filing this yourself is possible: complete Form 08-0497, attach a certificate of good standing (or equivalent) from the home jurisdiction, and pay $350 to the Division of Corporations, either online or by mail. This page lays out both routes in the order you meet them and says where people tend to stall. If you reach a point where you would rather hand it over, $199 is the price for us to do it.

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Before you start, gather these

  • The company's name as the home-state certificate prints it, plus its formation date and state.
  • A certificate of good standing (or equivalent) from the home jurisdiction, ordered from the home state.
  • The name, physical address and mailing address of an Alaska registered agent who agrees to serve.
  • The principal office addresses, street and mailing.
  • Whether members or managers run the company, and the names, mailing addresses and percentages of each member owning 5 percent or more.
  • The purpose, which can be "any lawful", and a NAICS code if you want to give one.
  • A payment method: a card and a myAlaska account for online, or a check or the Division's card form for paper.

Choosing online or paper

The Division says online filings are posted immediately and that it saves time to file online where the form allows it, though only select forms have an online version. Paper goes to PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811. Pick one: filing both ways causes delay and can charge you twice.

The online route, in order

  1. Open the Division's page for creating or filing a new entity and go to its forms and fees list.
  2. Choose your entity type, LLC, and then Foreign. The first form in the list creates the new entity in Alaska.
  3. Enter the name. The system checks availability for you and flags a conflict before you pay.
  4. Work through the parts in order: name, assumed name if needed, attestations, domicile and date, purpose, agent, addresses, management and members, signature.
  5. Attach the home-state proof if the screens ask for it.
  6. Pay by card through myAlaska. The filing is posted for record at once, and you can view, save or print it from the entity's record.

A mistake found afterward, such as a spelling error, is not fixed by filing again. A further form and fee may be needed, so write to us.

The paper route, in order

  1. Download Form 08-0497 and its instructions from the Division's forms and fees page.
  2. Complete Parts II through XI by typing or printing clearly. Parts I and II carry the fee and the name.
  3. Sign Part XI. The signer must be authorized by the law of the home state.
  4. Fill in the contact sheet, Form 08-0561, so the Division can reach you. It is not filed for record.
  5. Enclose a check payable to the State of Alaska for $350, or complete the credit card form.
  6. Mail the whole packet, with the home-state certificate, to PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811.

Do not email it. The Division says it does not accept filings or card details by email.

Realistic timing

Online, the time is whatever it takes you to finish the screens plus the certificate you already ordered. On paper, the form's instructions say to allow up to 3 weeks from the date received, and the Division adds that the delay can grow between October and February. Add the time the home state takes to issue the certificate, which you control by ordering it first.

Where self-filers get stuck

The name. A name typed from memory, with a missing comma or a changed ending, fails to match the home record. Copy it from the certificate itself.

The agent. Using a friend's address in another state, a post office box with no physical location, or an LLC as agent. The Division lists a full-time Alaska resident individual (an owner, employee, CPA, attorney, friend or family member) or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to do business in Alaska; not an LLC, LLP or LP.

The certificate. A certificate that shows the company as existing but not in good standing, or one that carries a different name from the form.

The members. Leaving out an owner of 5 percent or more, or listing members without percentages. Part X asks for percentages.

Payment. Online payment needs a myAlaska account. Create it before you start, not on the payment screen.

The follow-on. Filing the registration and forgetting the state business license, at $50 a year, or the biennial report calendar.

What the do-it-yourself route costs

The Alaska fee is $350, online or on paper. The state business license adds $50 a year, and each biennial report is $200. A report that goes in late adds $25 and $20. An agent or office change is $25 on Form 08-409, and a name change is $25 on Form 08-498.

After you file

Three things follow, whichever way you filed. Buy the business license before doing business (AS 43.70.030(a)). Note the report year, which comes from the year of registration: a foreign LLC registering in an even-numbered year reports in even-numbered years, and one registering in an odd-numbered year reports in odd-numbered years. And keep the registered agent's details current, because the biennial report cannot change them; only Form 08-409 can, at $25. The biennial report page has the dates.

Filing the Alaska LLC registration yourself

  1. Order the home-state certificate

    Do this first, since it sets your timetable.

  2. Secure an Alaska registered agent

    Get their name and both Alaska addresses.

  3. Open an online account

    A myAlaska account is needed to pay online.

  4. Complete the eleven parts

    Online screens or the paper Form 08-0497.

  5. Pay the fee

    $350, by card online or check on paper.

  6. Buy the license and diary the report

    Then record which even or odd year your report falls in.

A last look before you submit

Read the name against the certificate one more time, character by character. Check that the agent has agreed to serve and that both Alaska addresses are real places. Confirm that every member with 5 percent or more is on the list with a percentage. Make sure the signer is someone the home state would recognize as authorized. Then pay once, by one route, and note the date: your biennial report years follow from it.

Or let us do it

The home-state certificate, the agent and the report calendar are most of the effort, and we handle them. The same $350 Alaska fee applies either way. If you want to see exactly what we would complete, the Form 08-0497 page goes part by part.

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.

Self-filing, answered

Must a lawyer prepare this form?

The form does not require one. The Division points you to a lawyer on whether you must register at all, since it cannot decide that for you.

Can I file for a corporation online too?

The corporation form describes a mail filing.

How much does self-filing save?

Nothing on the Alaska fee, which is $350 either way. What you save is our charge, and what you spend is the time on the certificate, the agent and the calendar.

What happens if I file twice by accident?

The Division warns of delay and duplicate payments. Write to us before sending anything else.

Or let us file it

Our charge, then the Alaska fee

Register in Alaska

Alaska

$199

+ $350 Alaska fee

  • Form 08-0497, the Certificate of Registration, Foreign Limited Liability Company, completed from your answers
  • Certificate of good standing (or equivalent) from the home state, ordered for the filing
  • An Alaska registered agent: ours, or one you already work with
  • The filed registration and the year your first biennial report falls in
  • Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
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Our charge and the Alaska fee are separate lines 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.

References

  1. Alaska Division of Corporations, forms and fees
  2. Alaska Form 08-0497, Registration of Foreign LLC
  3. Alaska Administrative Code, 3 AAC 16.065
  4. Alaska Form 08-414, Certificate of Authority, Foreign Business Corporation
  5. Alaska Division of Corporations, foreign LLC online filing instructions
  6. Alaska Division of Corporations, registered agent FAQs
  7. Alaska Statutes, AS 43.70.020 to 43.70.030 (business license)
  8. Alaska Form 08-409, Statement of Change of Registered Agent
  9. Alaska Form 08-498, Amended Certificate of Registration, Foreign LLC
  10. Alaska Statutes, AS 10.50.750 to 10.50.765 (biennial reports)
  11. Alaska Statutes, AS 10.50.760

Taking on work in Alaska?

Order once and we handle the certificate, the form and the agent, then tell you when the biennial report falls due.

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