Foreign LLCs Registering in New York: Applications for Authority

Methodology

Every figure on this page except the price table is counted from the New York Department of State's public filing records on NY Open Data, extracted October 22, 2026, with filings through October 19, 2026. Each Application for Authority counts once per DOS ID, at the entity's first application. The price table is LLC Publishers' own price list, not State data.

Source system

New York Department of State records published on NY Open Data (data.ny.gov): "Corporations and Other Entities: All Filings" (dataset 63wc-4exh) for every Application for Authority and later filing; "Daily Corporation and Other Entity Filing Data" (k4vb-judh), the only State file that names the filer, for the individual-filer table; "All Filings - Name Status History" (ekwr-p59j) for the name match. Unlike the Delaware dataset on this site, nothing here comes from LLC Publishers' own database, except the price table, which is LLC Publishers' price list.

Extraction timestamp

Extracted from data.ny.gov on October 22, 2026. The latest filing date in the extract, October 19, 2026, is the "data as of" date throughout; "last 12 months" means applications filed October 20, 2025 to October 19, 2026. The individual-filer table covers applications the Department of State approved September 21, 2026 to October 20, 2026: that file holds only about the last 30 days of approvals.

Refresh frequency

A fixed snapshot: the figures change only when LLC Publishers rebuilds the dataset from fresh extracts with the same queries, and the version label and "data as of" date change with it. The price table is the exception: it is read from LLC Publishers' price list and refreshes at most once every 24 hours.

Included entity types

"FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY" and "FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY" only, matched exactly. A substring match on "FOREIGN" would also pull in registered foreign limited liability partnerships and unauthorized foreign LLCs, so this dataset never uses one.

Included statuses

Every Application for Authority on file, whatever the entity's status today: an LLC that later surrendered its authority or ended still counts in the year it applied.

Definition of "application"

An "application" is a filing of the Department of State's document type "APPLICATION OF AUTHORITY". Each DOS ID counts once, at its first application (earliest filing date, then film number); the county, home jurisdiction, name and formation date come from that first application.

Exclusions

New York-formed LLCs (except the one contrast row in the effective-date table), foreign corporations, partnerships and LLPs. In the first-year table, a Certificate of Change by Agent and an agent's resignation are left out: each is the agent's own filing, not one the LLC made.

Jurisdiction normalization

The State file records the home jurisdiction as a two-letter code. U.S. state, District of Columbia and territory codes display as names; any other code displays as recorded (for example, Recorded as "EN"). The file records "NY" on a few dozen applications a year, although a foreign LLC is formed outside New York; those also display as recorded. A blank code displays as "Not stated" and is counted.

County normalization

County is the New York county named on the application (item THIRD). The State file shortens county names to ten characters; four are restored to their full names (Westchester, Cattaraugus, Schenectady, St. Lawrence). No other renaming or merging. On this page each county reads "<name> County", with the borough for a New York City county (for example, New York County (Manhattan)); the CSV keeps the State's names.

How the by-year table is built

Each year counts the applications filed that year (first per DOS ID), including LLCs that later surrendered their authority or ended, so the years are comparable flows of new registrations. 2026 is partial: the "January 1 to October 19" column counts each year over the same days, which is the like-for-like comparison.

Duplicate and corrected filings

A DOS ID with more than one Application for Authority on file counts once, at its first. A later correction or amendment does not change what that first application recorded; it appears only in the first-year table.

Blank counties

Empty county values and the literal text "Blank" both display as "Not stated", are kept as their own row and are counted in every total.

Known limitations

Dates are as the State file records them; the earliest Application for Authority on record is dated March 29, 1994. County is the county named on the application, not necessarily where the LLC operates. Formation dates are as the applicant stated them; a missing date, or one after the filing date, is left out of the formation-lag shares. Name-word groups are words in the name, not business purposes: a name can match several groups, and most names match none. The name match ignores case, punctuation, spacing, articles and entity designators but not plurals, numerals or near-spellings, so it is a floor, and it uses each matched name's status today. The individual-filer table is one 30-day approval window, and an individual filer may be an owner, an employee or a firm's staff.

Revision policy

The version label and dateModified change when the snapshot is rebuilt or the method changes. Earlier snapshots are not archived on this page.

Sources

• Corporations and Other Entities: All Filings (NY Open Data, dataset 63wc-4exh)
• Daily Corporation and Other Entity Filing Data (NY Open Data, dataset k4vb-judh)
• All Filings - Name Status History (NY Open Data, dataset ekwr-p59j)

Related guides

• LLC formed in another state: New York registration explained
• The county on a New York Application for Authority, and what publication costs
• The New York Application for Authority, item by item
• Do foreign LLCs need to publish in New York?
• Delaware LLCs registered to do business in New York (dataset)

Suggested citation

LLC Publishers. (2026). Foreign LLCs Registering in New York: Applications for Authority (Version 2026-10) [Data set]. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://www.llcpublishers.com/research/foreign-llcs-in-new-york