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Foreign Qualification Can Be Easy, or It Can Be Difficult

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Foreign qualification is how a given state permits an entity, such as a corporation or limited liability company, from elsewhere to do business in that state. In this context, “foreign” can mean from another state or from a different country.

Recently, one of my international clients formed a corporation in Delaware. We have been qualifying that corporation to do business in about a dozen other states. This post explains how easy, or how difficult, various states makes the foreign qualification process.

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Can an Undocumented Immigrant Form a Corporation?

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This post is based on a question that I answered on OnStartups.com. The short answer is “Yes, an undocumented immigrant can form a corporation.” The rest of this post is adapted from the full answer that I provided.

You can form a corporation – no problem. I have helped dozens of foreign clients (non-citizens, no social security number) go through that process.

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