STATE FOLIO — NY · VERIFIED 2026-11-04

New York

Deadlines, agent rules, and the cost of a miss — kept by New York State Department of State, Division of Corporations, checked against the state’s own publications on 2026-11-04. If a figure here ever disagrees with the state’s page, the state’s page governs and our re-verification queue takes the correction the same week.

Verified 2026-11-04 Full mail mirroring available

The formation rule

Biennial Statement filing period is the calendar month in which the original Articles of Organization (or Application for Authority) was filed with the Department of State; filed every two years (DOS)

Late charge (LLC)

No flat late fee published — see the record

File number, as the state issues it

DOS ID number — Department of State entity database

The New York deadline ledger

Recurring obligations by entity type — sample LLC formed March 15, 2024 for the dated lines

LLC — Biennial Statement

Open

Due March 31, 2028 · 511 days · Fee $9 · Exposure $9

Corporation — Biennial Statement

Open

Due March 31, 2028 · 511 days · Fee $9 · Exposure $9

Open exposure if every line were missed: $18 in state charges alone.

Limited liability company late note: No late fee stated on the DOS page read; a past-due entity is reflected as past due in DOS records and on any Certificate of Status, which may prevent certain business transactions (DOS)

Corporation (for-profit) late note: No late fee stated on the DOS page read; a past-due entity is reflected as past due in DOS records and on any Certificate of Status, which may prevent certain business transactions (DOS)

First report: First Biennial Statement due two years after the filing of the Articles of Organization, in the same calendar month, and every two years thereafter (DOS LLC pages; biennial page states the every-two-years cycle)

Your exact dates depend on your formation date. Run the Entity Checkup and the ledger becomes yours — dated, with the late charges attached to the right cycles.

The New York brief

New York is the exception that proves the agent rule. The state does not require a registered agent at all: by law, the Secretary of State is every corporation’s and LLC’s agent for service of process, and what the owner actually maintains is the address the Department of State forwards process to. That address rides on the Biennial Statement — $9, filed during your formation month, every two years. Skip it and nothing dramatic happens on any published schedule; your entity simply shows as past due, and that past-due mark appears on the Certificate of Status your bank or counterparty pulls. In New York the discipline is not agent fees. It is address hygiene.

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The registered agent in New York

New York requires no separate registered agent. The corporation or LLC designates the Secretary of State as its agent for service of process and keeps a current address — set out in the Biennial Statement — to which the Secretary forwards process. Designating an additional registered agent is optional.

Because the Secretary of State is the agent by law, our New York service is the forwarding-address discipline plus the biennial calendar — described plainly, priced inside the same flat annual fee.

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What a miss costs in New York

The Department of State publishes no late fee and no dissolution consequence for a late Biennial Statement, and this hub will not invent one. What the Department does state: a past-due entity is reflected as past due in its records and on any Certificate of Status — the document banks, landlords, and counterparties request — which may prevent certain business transactions.

The Dissolution Clock — New York

The state’s own sequence, from the verified record: The Department of State publishes no late fee and no dissolution consequence for a late Biennial Statement, and this hub will not invent one. What the Department does state: a past-due entity is reflected as past due in its records and on any Certificate of Status — the document banks, landlords, and counterparties request — which may prevent certain business transactions.

Formation month, every 2 yearsThe Biennial Statement ($9) is filed during the calendar month of the original filing.
The month afterNo late fee is published, and this folio will not invent one.
No dissolution clockThe Department of State publishes no dissolution consequence: the entity is reflected as past due in its records and on any Certificate of Status.
On cureFile the statement and the past-due mark clears from the record.

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Mail in New York

Full mail mirroring is available in New York. Service of process and official state mail are scanned to your portal, typically within 24 hours; ordinary business mail sent to your registered office address is mirrored on the same terms, under your mail plan. The physical originals stay on file; a service-of-process item also triggers a phone escalation until you acknowledge it.

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Switching your New York agent to us

The switch is a relay, not a leap: the new agent is in place before the old one is released, and the change is proven on the state record — never assumed from a submitted form.

Successor filed

The new agent designation goes to the state first. State fee for this folio: $30, at cost.

Read-back

The state record is read back. It must show the new agent before anything else moves.

Release

Only then is the old agent released. ~~Release first, file second~~ — that order leaves the entity with no agent, and it is never run. The shaded node is the no-agent-gap window the relay exists to close.

Instrument: Certificate of Change, filed with the Department of State (LLC Law § 211-A for LLCs; Business Corporation Law § 805-A for corporations). State fee: $30. State fee per the Department of State’s Certificate of Change pages for domestic LLCs and domestic business corporations, read 2026-11-05. The same certificate makes, revokes, or changes the designation of the optional registered agent, and can also change the address to which the Secretary of State forwards process.

How the no-gap switch works, state by state

New York questions, answered from the record

Does New York require a registered agent?

No. By law the Secretary of State is the agent for service of process for New York corporations and LLCs. What you maintain is the forwarding address the Department of State mails process to. Naming an additional registered agent is optional.

What does a New York LLC file, and when?

A Biennial Statement, $9, during the calendar month of the original formation filing — first due two years after formation, then every two years. It is not an annual obligation, whatever a renewal notice in your inbox claims.

What happens if my New York Biennial Statement is past due?

The Department of State shows the entity as past due in its records and on any Certificate of Status. The Department publishes no late fee and no dissolution for it — the cost is the past-due mark surfacing exactly when someone checks your standing.

What does an agent service do in New York, if no agent is required?

It holds a stable process-forwarding address that does not change when you move, and it keeps the biennial calendar so the statement is filed in its month, every cycle. In New York, the address and the calendar are the product.

Sources: Official state source (see dataset record). Verification basis: per-state compliance dataset v1, primary-source verified 2026-11-04.

The rate card, and the order we open in

The Agent On File — agent, calendar, mail vault$149per entity, per year · renews at $149

Bundled — the annual filing included$199per entity, per year · renews at $199

Filing add-on — one cycle, prepared and filed$129added to the base plan, per use

Launch pricing, published before enrollment opens. State filing fees pass through at cost and are shown before anything is filed. The reminder tier — one entity’s ledger, watched and reminded — is free.

Enrollment is not open today. It opens when our wholesale fulfillment agreement is executed and a first test order has been completed and proven on the record. The founding list for New York hears first — by state, in order. Questions before joining: write to the desk.