Your Pennsylvania LLC is doing business in New York. Now what?

Why Pennsylvania companies end up here

Pennsylvania businesses serving New York clients or holding New York property register to stay in good standing.

When you did, New York started calling you a foreign LLC — which simply means formed somewhere else. Nothing to do with being outside the country, and nothing you need to undo. Your Pennsylvania formation stays exactly as it is.

The requirement nobody mentions

Filing the Application for Authority is the part everyone tells you about. The part they don't is LLC Law §802: within 120 days of that filing, your LLC must publish a notice once a week for six successive weeks, in two newspapers designated by the clerk of the county where your New York office sits — one daily, one weekly — and then file a Certificate of Publication for a Foreign LLC with a $50 fee.

Miss it and your authority to carry on business in New York is suspended. Your company isn't dissolved and your contracts stay valid, but you generally can't bring a lawsuit in New York courts until it's cured. Publishing late cures it completely, and New York charges no penalty fee.

The mistake that catches Pennsylvania owners

The 120 days run from the date you filed the Application for Authority with New York — not from the date your LLC was formed in Pennsylvania. Those are usually years apart.

Counting from the Pennsylvania date makes people think they have no deadline, or that it passed long ago and doesn't matter. Both are wrong, and both are expensive.

What it costs

Publishing directly in Manhattan commonly runs $1,000–$1,700, because each county's designated papers set their own rates. Albany County has the lowest legal-notice rates in the state, and New York permits an LLC to update the county its office is designated to. The state's $50 Certificate of Publication fee is paid directly to the Department of State either way — we never mark it up.

What we do

We check your entity against New York's own register to confirm you're foreign and find your correct Application for Authority date, change your designated county if needed, run the notice in both designated papers for the full six weeks, collect both notarized affidavits, and send you a ready-to-file Certificate of Publication packet. You sign one form, add the state's $50, and mail one envelope.

About seven to eight weeks end to end, or nine to ten if a county change is needed — almost all of it the mandatory six-week run. Backed by our money-back guarantee.