Arizona Foreign Registration / Delaware LLC in Arizona
A Delaware LLC registering in Arizona
A Delaware LLC that starts doing business in Arizona files Form L025 for $150, with a Delaware good standing certificate ($50) dated within 60 days and a certified copy of its certificate of formation. Delaware's $400 annual tax, due June 1, carries on unchanged, and Arizona adds no annual report.
Delaware and Arizona side by side
| Delaware (home) | Arizona (registration) | |
|---|---|---|
| Filing | Formation already done | Form L025, $150 |
| Proof of existence | Good standing certificate, $50 | Must be dated within 60 days of delivery |
| Organizing documents | Certificate of formation on file in Delaware | A certified copy goes in the packet |
| Yearly cost | $400 tax, payable June 1 | No annual report for an LLC |
| If late | $200 added to the tax | No annual deadline to miss |
| Agent | A Delaware registered agent | An Arizona statutory agent who signs an acceptance |
Why Delaware standing matters here
Arizona decides whether to accept your LLC partly on the strength of the certificate. A Delaware LLC that has not paid its $400 tax is not in good standing, so the certificate cannot be issued as such, and the packet stalls before it starts. Pay the Delaware tax first, then order the certificate. Because Arizona measures the 60 days to delivery, a certificate ordered a month ahead and delivered in week five is fine; one ordered in January and delivered in April is not. The packet guide explains how the date is read.
The two Delaware documents
The Commission wants a certificate of existence, certificate of good standing or similar document from the state or country of formation, dated not more than 60 days before delivery, and a certified copy of the organizing documents on file in the jurisdiction of formation (A.R.S. 29-3903(C)). For a Delaware LLC that is two orders from Delaware's Division of Corporations: the good standing certificate at $50, and a certified copy of the certificate of formation, priced by Delaware and not part of the Commission's fees. Order both together so their dates agree, and so the certified copy reflects any amendments.
The Delaware details on the Arizona form
Item 2 carries the Delaware name exactly, with its ending and punctuation. Item 5 is Delaware and item 6 the date of the certificate of formation. Item 9, the principal address, can be anywhere and must be a mailing address; Delaware LLCs managed from other states use the management address. Item 10 asks whether Delaware requires a physical office for the LLC. If Delaware does not require the LLC to keep an office there, item 10 names the Delaware process agent and gives that agent's street address. Items 12 and 13 ask who manages the company, and the matching attachment carries the names. The Form L025 page lists them all.
Managers, members and the twenty percent line
Arizona's statement is public. In a manager-managed LLC the attachment names each manager plus each member whose stake in capital or profits reaches 20 percent, and in a member-managed LLC it names every member (A.R.S. 29-3903(A)(6)-(7)). Those names and addresses become public record on the Commission's website. Owners who care about privacy should talk to a lawyer before choosing the management structure, since the choice decides who is listed.
Two calendars for a Delaware LLC in Arizona
| When | Obligation | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| June 1 | Delaware's yearly LLC tax payment | $400 |
| Within 60 days of a change | Arizona change of agent or principal address | $5 |
| When a fact in the statement changes | Arizona amendment, Form L017 | $25 |
| Within 60 days of a home amendment | Copy of the amendment to the Commission | A copy |
Arizona has no recurring date for an LLC. The calendar is driven by changes, and Delaware's June 1 date remains the only fixed one.
Does the carve-out cover a Delaware LLC?
A hire, a lease or a contract that grows is not among the statute's carved-out activities. That carve-out covers things like keeping a bank account, defending a lawsuit, selling through independent contractors and an isolated transaction. See the doing business page for how each applies.
Registering a Delaware LLC in Arizona
Pay Delaware
Bring the $400 tax current.
Order the Delaware papers together
A good standing certificate at $50 and a certified copy of the certificate of formation.
Choose the Arizona agent
A person or entity who will sign the acceptance.
Complete Form L025 and the attachment
Matching the management choice.
File
$150 plus any speed tier.
Delaware LLC questions
Does Arizona accept a Delaware certificate older than 60 days?
No. It must be dated not more than 60 days before delivery to the Commission.
Will an Arizona registration affect what I owe Delaware?
Not at all. Delaware keeps billing its $400 tax, payable June 1, whatever happens in Arizona.
Do I convert to an Arizona LLC?
No. It remains a Delaware LLC and simply gains a registration here.
Our price and the Commission fee
Arizona registration order
- Form L025 for an LLC or Form C018 for a corporation, completed and signed
- The home-state certificate and certified organizational documents, ordered for you
- The statutory agent acceptance and the structure attachment
- An Arizona statutory agent, from us or already yours
- Filing with the Commission at the speed tier you choose
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
$199
+ $150 Commission fee
Start my Arizona registrationCheckout shows our price, the Commission fee and any speed tier as separate lines. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Where these facts come from
- Arizona Corporation Commission LLC fee schedule
- Arizona Form L025 instructions (Foreign Registration Statement)
- Arizona Corporation Commission, LLC forms
- Arizona Form C018 instructions (Application for Authority)
- Arizona Corporation Commission, corporation forms
- Arizona Corporation Commission corporation fee schedule
- Arizona Corporation Commission, business services FAQs
- A.R.S. 29-3903, foreign registration statement
- Delaware Division of Corporations fee schedule (PDF)
- Delaware Division of Corporations, LLC/LP/GP annual tax
- Arizona Form L020 instructions (LLC Statement of Change of Principal Address or Statutory Agent)
Opening an Arizona branch of an out-of-state company?
Order online and we assemble the packet, file with the Commission and follow it to approval.