Foreign Qualification by State › Home-state certificates
States that want a home-state certificate
36 states ask a foreign LLC for a certificate from the state where it was formed. Mainstay Filing walks through it in each.
- Alaska: Certificate of good standing (or equivalent) from the home state
- Arizona: Certificate of existence or good standing, plus a certified copy of the organizational documents, no older than 60 days
- Arkansas: Certificate of existence (good standing) from the home state, no older than 30 days
- California: Certificate of good standing (existence or status) from the home state, no older than 180 days
- Connecticut: Certificate of existence (certificate of good standing) from the state of formation, no older than 90 days
- Delaware: Certificate of existence from the jurisdiction of formation, no older than 180 days
- Florida: Certificate of existence (or record of similar import) from the jurisdiction of formation, no older than 90 days
- Hawaii: Original certificate of existence from the jurisdiction of formation, no older than 60 days
- Idaho: Certificate of existence (certificate of good standing) from the home state, no older than 90 days
- Illinois: Certificate of Good Standing or Existence, no older than 60 days
- Indiana: Certificate of existence (commonly called a certificate of good standing), no older than 60 days
- Iowa: Certificate of existence (good standing) from the state or country of formation, no older than 90 days
- Louisiana: Certificate of existence or good standing from the jurisdiction of organization, no older than 90 days
- Maine: Certificate of existence, no older than 90 days
- Maryland: Written proof of existence from the home state, equivalent to a certificate of good standing, no older than 60 days
- Massachusetts: Certificate of legal existence or good standing, no older than 90 days
- Michigan: Certificate of good standing, no older than 30 days
- Mississippi: Certificate of good standing or existence, no older than 180 days
- Missouri: Certificate of good standing/existence from the home state, no older than 60 days
- Nebraska: Certificate of existence
- New Jersey: Good standing certificate
- New Mexico: Certificate of good standing and compliance, no older than 30 days
- New York: Certificate of Existence (also called a Certificate of Good Standing), no older than 365 days
- North Carolina: Certificate of existence (or similar document, such as a certificate of good standing), no older than 180 days
- North Dakota: Certificate of status, good standing or existence from the home-state filing office
- Oklahoma: Certificate of good standing, existence or fact, no older than 60 days
- Rhode Island: Certificate of Good Standing or Letter of Status, no older than 60 days
- South Carolina: Certificate of existence from the home-state Secretary of State, no older than 30 days
- South Dakota: Certificate of Existence
- Tennessee: Certificate of existence or good standing, no older than 60 days
- Utah: Certificate of existence, no older than 90 days
- Vermont: Certificate of existence (certificate of good standing), no older than 90 days
- Virginia: Certified copy of articles of organization and all amendments, no older than 365 days
- Washington: Certificate of existence (good standing) or similar document, no older than 60 days
- West Virginia: Certificate of existence (good standing), dated in the current tax year
- Wyoming: Original certificate of existence / good standing, no older than 60 days