How to Reinstate a New Mexico LLC
The short answer. If your New Mexico LLC has been revoked, you restore it by filing an application for reinstatement with the New Mexico Secretary of State. New Mexico allows reinstatement for up to 2 years after the LLC is revoked.
New Mexico LLC Reinstatement at a Glance
| What New Mexico calls the status | Revoked |
| What you file | Application for Reinstatement |
| Filed with | New Mexico Secretary of State |
| How to file | Not confirmed |
| Reinstatement fee | Not confirmed |
| Time limit to reinstate | 2 years |
| Tax clearance | Not confirmed |
| Retroactive | Yes |
Read from the government sources listed at the foot of this page, last checked September 29, 2026. See the sources.
Why New Mexico Would Revoke an LLC
The Secretary of State may revoke an LLC that has gone 30 days without appointing and maintaining a registered agent. It may also revoke one that has gone 30 days after a change of its registered office or agent without filing a statement of the change.
Revocation is available once the LLC has been without a registered agent, or without filing a required statement of change, for 30 days.
How Long You Have to Reinstate
New Mexico allows reinstatement for up to 2 years after the LLC is revoked.
How to File
You file an application for reinstatement with the New Mexico Secretary of State.
What It Costs
We have not confirmed the fee for the application for reinstatement; check with the New Mexico Secretary of State.
We have not confirmed whether New Mexico requires a tax clearance to reinstate; check with the New Mexico Secretary of State.
Registered Agent Options
If your LLC's registered agent has changed, resigned or lapsed, ask the filing office named above whether New Mexicowants that updated as part of reinstatement. You do not have to buy a service for it: in most states the LLC's owner, or another individual who qualifies, may serve as its registered agent themselves, generally subject to that state's rules on keeping a street address in the state and being available there during normal business hours. A paid service is one option and not the only one. The New Mexico registered agent requirements set out what New Mexico itself asks.
Registered agent services for New Mexico LLCs
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This list is not scored. The four are listed cheapest annual renewal first, and every claim below is about the services listed here rather than the whole market.
- Northwest Registered Agent$125/yr renewal
Best for: Privacy-focused owners and anyone who just needs an agent, not a formation bundle
- Bizee$149/yr renewal
Best for: A free first year on every plan, renewing at $149/yr, if you're comfortable with the BBB caveat
- ZenBusiness$199/yr renewal
Best for: First-time founders forming a new LLC who want phone, email and chat support
- LegalZoom$249/yr renewal
Best for: Complex structures that want attorney consultations, which come with LegalZoom's Pro and Premium formation plans rather than this renewal price
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Annual renewal is each provider's own standard published rate. Check the current terms at each provider before you buy. The scored ranking, and the formula behind it, is in our full formation services review →
What Reinstatement Does
Under New Mexico's law, a reinstated LLC continues as if it had never been revoked.
If another business has taken the LLC's name in the meantime, the LLC needs a name that is still available to reinstate.
Worth Knowing in New Mexico
New Mexico's LLC Act lists its events of dissolution as an event named in the articles or operating agreement, member consent, and a court decree, so a revocation by the Secretary of State is the state's administrative route. The application must say that each ground for revocation did not exist or has been eliminated.
More for New Mexico LLCs
- New Mexico LLC annual report, to keep the LLC in good standing once it is reinstated.
- New Mexico annual report late fee, for what a late report costs before it comes to dissolution.
- New Mexico certificate of good standing, to prove the LLC is active again.
- How to dissolve an LLC in New Mexico, if you would rather close the LLC properly than reinstate it.
- Annual report deadline finder, to see when the next report is due.
Frequently Asked Questions
This guide is general information, not legal or tax advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. It reports what each state's law and filing office say about bringing back an LLC the state has dissolved, with the sources this page cites. It cannot tell you where your own LLC stands: that turns on why and when it was dissolved, what it still owes, and whether anyone has since taken its name, and fees and deadlines change between our reviews. Confirm your LLC's status and the current requirements with the filing office or tax agency named on this page, and ask a lawyer about anything the LLC did while it was dissolved. In many states a missed deadline ends the right to reinstate, so do not wait.
Sources
Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified New Mexico sources, and each entry says what the document is. Some statutory text is read from an accurate mirror rather than from the state's own host, and those say so.
- nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/item/4400/index.doNMSA 1978, Chapter 53, Article 19 (Limited Liability Company Act), 53-19-39, 53-19-63, 53-19-66.1 and 53-19-66.2, NMOneSource (NM Compilation Commission)
- sos.nm.gov/business-services/statutes-governing-business-in-nm/New Mexico Secretary of State, Statutes Governing Business in NM (Limited Liability Companies 53-19-1 to 53-19-74)
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Edmond Hui · Founder, MyStateLLC
Edmond Hui is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur based in New York who has founded multiple online businesses across e-commerce, media, and information publishing. Before transitioning into tech, he spent years as a commercial real estate professional closing deals totaling over 100,000 square feet, giving him firsthand experience with business formation and entity structuring. He built MyStateLLC to provide the free, state-specific LLC guidance he wished existed when forming his own companies.