LLC reinstatement · Wyoming

How to Reinstate a Wyoming LLC

The short answer. If your Wyoming LLC has been forfeited, you restore it by filing a reinstatement with the Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division. Wyoming allows reinstatement for up to 2 years after the LLC is forfeited.

Wyoming LLC Reinstatement at a Glance

What Wyoming calls the statusForfeited or administratively dissolved
What you fileReinstatement
Filed withWyoming Secretary of State, Business Division
How to fileOnline or paper
Reinstatement feeVaries (see Cost)
Time limit to reinstate2 years
Tax clearanceNot confirmed
RetroactiveDepends (see What reinstatement does)

Read from the government sources listed at the foot of this page, last checked September 30, 2026. See the sources.

Why Wyoming Would Forfeit an LLC

The Secretary of State forfeits an LLC's articles of organization if it does not pay its annual report fee or related penalties, or is without a registered agent or registered office in Wyoming. Other grounds include a member knowingly signing a false filing, ignoring a valid subpoena, and several public-interest grounds the statute lists.

The LLC has 60 days to fix the problem before it can be forfeited. The 60 days are counted from the date of the Secretary of State's notice, sent by first-class mail or electronically.

How Long You Have to Reinstate

Wyoming allows reinstatement for up to 2 years after the LLC is forfeited.

How to File

You file a reinstatement with the Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division. You can file it online or on paper. Go to Wyoming's filing page.

What It Costs

The fee is $100 to reinstate an LLC forfeited for unpaid annual report license tax, and $350 to reinstate one forfeited for having no registered agent.

The LLC must pay the delinquent annual report license taxes and fees that led to the forfeiture. An LLC forfeited for having no registered agent or office must also file the statement the LLC act requires.

We have not confirmed whether Wyoming requires a tax clearance to reinstate; check with the Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division.

Registered Agent Options

If your LLC's registered agent has changed, resigned or lapsed, ask the filing office named above whether Wyomingwants 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 Wyoming registered agent requirements set out what Wyoming itself asks.

Registered agent services for Wyoming LLCs

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What Reinstatement Does

Reinstatement after a forfeiture for unpaid annual fees relates back to the date the LLC was deemed defunct, and the LLC carries on its business as if it had never been deemed defunct. The statute states this effect only for that route, not for reinstatement after a forfeiture for having no registered agent.

An LLC forfeited for having no registered agent keeps its registered name during the two-year reinstatement period. For a forfeiture over unpaid annual fees the statute does not say, so confirm the name with the Secretary of State.

Worth Knowing in Wyoming

Wyoming treats a forfeited LLC as transacting business without authority. The Secretary of State may list an LLC as delinquent awaiting forfeiture from the day it sends the notice.

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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.

Related guides

LLC late fees by stateWhat a late annual report costs before it comes to dissolution →Annual report complianceDeadlines and fees for all 50 states, so it does not happen again →Annual report deadline finderEnter your formation date for your next due date →Certificate of good standingProve the LLC is active again once it is reinstated →Dissolving an LLCIf you would rather close the LLC properly than bring it back →
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Sources

Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Wyoming 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.

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Edmond Hui

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.