Business

North Dakota issues a Certificate of Good Standing through the Secretary of State, Business Division. Submit a Request Certificate form in the FirstStop Portal, select your LLC or corporation and pay the $20 fee. North Dakota does not issue electronic certifications, so the certificate is a paper original. The Secretary of State does not publish a processing time. Your entity must be current on its Annual Report to qualify.

North Carolina’s certificate of good standing is the Certificate of Existence for domestic entities, or the Certificate of Authorization for foreign entities, issued by the Department of the Secretary of State, Business Registration Division. It costs $15 for LLCs and business corporations. Order online with a free Secretary of State account: search your business, order the certificate and save the electronic certified document. No processing time is published.

New Mexico issues a Certificate of Good Standing through the Secretary of State’s Business Services Division. Orders are online only at enterprise.sos.nm.gov: search the entity, select Request Certificate, choose the certificate and pay the fee shown at checkout. The certificate appears in your My Copies and Certificates Request work queue, ready to download for 90 days. Expedite service costs $100 for two business days or $150 for the same business day.

New Hampshire issues a Certificate of Good Standing through the Department of State’s Corporation Division. Log in to QuickStart, the Secretary of State’s online filing system, choose Order Certificate of Good Standing, select your LLC or corporation and pay $2.00: a $0.00 filing fee plus a $2.00 handling charge. The state does not publish a processing time. Only entities current on their Annual Report qualify.

Nevada issues a Certificate of Good Standing through the Secretary of State’s Commercial Recordings Division. The fee is $50 for LLCs and corporations under the Secretary of State’s fee schedule, and orders run online through the state’s ORION portal, linked from the Commercial Recordings page. A Ceremonial Certificate of Good Standing costs $100. The fee schedule does not publish a processing time, so order before your deadline.

Montana’s certificate of good standing is called a Certificate of Existence. The Montana Secretary of State, Business Services Division, issues it, and you order it online only through the biz.sosmt.gov Request Information form. The Secretary of State’s fee page lists the domestic Certificate of Existence at $5. Expedited processing costs $20 for 24-hour service or $100 for 1-hour service. The state does not publish a standard processing time.