Required, every year
$119/yr
The address that legally accepts lawsuits and state notices for you, renewed each year so the company stays in good standing.
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Start Your US BusinessFrom Anywhere
Set up your LLC, open a US bank account, and stay compliant without being in the US.
- From $189 + state fee
- Government fees at cost
- Cancel anytime
How to start a U.S. business as a non-resident
A clear walkthrough for founders outside the United States — from choosing a state to taking your first payment.
Step-by-step guide
Start a U.S. company from your own country.
- 01Form your LLCPick a state, we file it, documents come back in days.
- 02Get your EINThe company's tax number. No SSN of your own required.
- 03Open a U.S. accountInvoice in dollars and get paid from where you live.
- No U.S. visit required
- No U.S. visa needed
- No Social Security Number
- 100% online, start to finish
Everything you need to launch, in one package.
Four things have to exist before a U.S. company is real and usable. Here is each one, and what it is actually for.
Registered Agent
Required in your state
Every U.S. company must have an address in its state that can legally accept lawsuits and official notices. We are that address, and we scan whatever arrives the day it arrives.
State Filing
Government fee at cost
We prepare your formation papers, a specialist checks them, and they go to the state. Whatever the state charges is passed straight through — we add nothing to it.
Business Tax Number
No U.S. SSN needed
The EIN. You cannot open a bank account, take card payments or hire anyone without it — and you do not need a Social Security Number of your own to be issued one.
Business Bank Account
Payoneer, Nsave & Grey
An account in the company's name, opened from wherever you already live, so you can invoice in dollars and be paid in them without ever visiting a branch.
Pay only for what you need.
Keeping a U.S. company is a handful of small yearly jobs. Buy them one at a time — there is no bundle here you have to take whole.
One deadline a year
$99/yr
Most states want a short report once a year. Miss it and the penalty starts, then the company falls out of good standing.
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Mail scanned and sent
$149/yr
A real street address for the company, so the address sitting on the public record is not the one you live at.
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Priced on revenue
From $299
Federal and state returns prepared for a company owned from outside the U.S., by people who file them for non-residents all year.
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From $99 / year
Starts with the registered agent. Add the report, the address and the filing as you need them.
Company name
Meridian Studio LLC
State
Wyoming$100
Filing
1
≈ 4 minutes
Answer four questions
Name, state, entity type, owners. On your phone, if you like.
Pre-filing check
3 / 3- Name available
- Agent assigned
- Articles reviewed
Sent to the Secretary of State
2
Same business day
A specialist files it
Every field checked against your state’s rules before it is submitted.
Business account
Meridian Studio LLC
- Routing
- ••• 0021
- Account
- ••• 4192
Stripe connected
3
1–5 business days
Bank and start trading
Stamped documents, EIN letter, then your account and Stripe.
Pick a package. See the real total.
Change your state and every number below updates with the exact government fee we pass through at cost.
1–2 business days state turnaround. Then $60/yr for the annual report.
Core
Legally Set UpThe legal minimum, done properly, with nothing padded on top.
$189$249+ state fee
You save $60$189 + $100 WY= $289 today
- Your U.S. company formed and filed
- Yearly state filings kept current
- Twelve months of registered agent service
- Twelve months at a U.S. business address
- Twelve months of mail forwarding
- + 3 more included
Founders' choice
Plus Connect
Backed as You BuildFiled, funded and ready to charge cards, with the money moving through Payoneer, Nsave or Grey.
Payoneer, Nsave or Grey account$289$449+ state fee
You save $160$289 + $100 WY= $389 today
- Your U.S. company formed and filed
- Yearly state filings kept current
- Twelve months of registered agent service
- Twelve months at a U.S. business address
- Twelve months of mail forwarding
- + 8 more included
True bank account
Plus
Backed as You BuildIdentical to Plus Connect, except the money lands in a genuine U.S. fintech account held by the company.
U.S. fintech bank account$439$499+ state fee
You save $60$439 + $100 WY= $539 today
- Your U.S. company formed and filed
- Yearly state filings kept current
- Twelve months of registered agent service
- Twelve months at a U.S. business address
- Twelve months of mail forwarding
- + 8 more included
Once year one is up, the agent runs $119/yr and the address $149/yr. Drop either whenever you like.
Need banking and an ITIN handled too? Compare all five packages
Cheap to open is not cheap to keep.
Nevada costs $425 to open and $350 every year after. New Mexico costs $50 and never asks again.
What founders say once the filing lands.
“They talked me out of an ITIN I did not need. That is rare.”
Diego Marchetti
Lisbon, Portugal
“Converted to a Delaware C-Corp two weeks before our seed. Investor counsel had zero comments.”
Priya Raghunathan
Bengaluru, India
“Every state notice is scanned the same day and the deadlines land in my calendar.”
Marcus Bell
Austin, Texas
The questions we actually get.
If yours is not here, ask a human. We answer in hours.
Yes. There is no citizenship or residency requirement to own a U.S. LLC or C-Corporation. You do not need a visa, a U.S. address of your own, or a Social Security Number. We provide the registered agent address, obtain your EIN without an SSN, and include a U.S. business address in every package, with banking, Stripe and your ITIN on the Pro tiers.
The package price is what you pay us. On top of it sits the fee your chosen state charges to accept the filing — set by the government, not by us, and passed through at cost with no markup. State fees range from $35 in Montana to $500 in Massachusetts. The exact figure for your state is shown in the checkout summary before you pay anything.
If you have a physical presence somewhere — an office, employees, inventory or a storefront — form in that state; forming elsewhere just means registering twice. If you operate entirely online, Wyoming and New Mexico are cheapest to maintain, and Delaware is the standard if you expect to raise venture capital. Our state comparison shows the true first-year and ongoing cost side by side.
Our work takes hours. The rest is the state: Wyoming, Delaware and Colorado typically approve within 1–3 business days, while Arizona and Maine can take two weeks. Every state's current turnaround is published on our pricing page, and rush filing is available where the state offers an expedited channel.
No. We are a document filing and business services company. We prepare and file documents at your direction and explain how the process works, but we do not provide legal or tax advice and no attorney-client relationship is created. For advice specific to your circumstances, consult a licensed attorney or CPA — we are happy to refer you.
Your stamped state documents, EIN letter and agreement pack go into your document vault. From Plus Connect up you also get a compliance calendar with every recurring deadline already loaded, and alerts at 60, 30 and 7 days. Those tiers then move to banking — a Payoneer, Nsave or Grey account on the Connect packages, a fintech business bank account on Plus and Pro — followed by Stripe, and PayPal on the Pro tiers.
Yes, with a clear line. If we have not yet submitted your filing to the state, cancel for a full refund of our service fee. Once the state has the filing, government fees are non-refundable because the state does not return them — but our service fee is still refundable for 30 days if we got something wrong. Full detail is in our refund policy.
No. Every renewal price is printed on the plan before you buy: registered agent is $119/yr, U.S. business address is $149/yr, compliance suite is $99/yr. We email you 30 days before any renewal, and you can cancel from your dashboard in one click.