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Meaning

Foreign LLC

To a state, any LLC organized elsewhere is foreign once it starts operating there.
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Facts

Also
Out-of-state LLC

What to do

It is domestic where formed and foreign everywhere else. That is normal. Operating unregistered is the problem.

States differ

Michigan charges the least, $50. Texas charges the most, $750. All fifty rules.

Where it appears

It appears in: Forming an LLC, by state, Registered agent rules by state, Registering in a second state, by state.

Sources

  1. Entry for LARA Corporations Division: read at michigan.gov, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  2. Entry for LARA limited liability company forms: read at michigan.gov, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  3. Entry for MCL 450.5002, certificate of authority: read at legislature.mi.gov, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  4. Entry for MCL 450.5008, activities that are: read at legislature.mi.gov, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  5. Entry for MCL 450.5007, consequences of transacting: read at legislature.mi.gov, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  6. Entry for LARA annual reports and annual: read at michigan.gov, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  7. Entry for Texas Secretary of State, foreign: read at sos.state.tx.us, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  8. Entry for Form 304 instructions: read at sos.state.tx.us, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  9. Entry for Fee schedule, Form 806: read at sos.texas.gov, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  10. Entry for Business Organizations Code, Chapter 9: read at statutes.capitol.texas.gov, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose
  11. Entry for Texas Comptroller, franchise tax: read at comptroller.texas.gov, dated October 2026, kept short on purpose