Nationwide Entity Search
About Nationwide Entity Search
Quick answer. A nationwide business entity search is a plan for checking more than one state, not a single federal company registry. The United States does not file LLCs in one national office. You search each formation state, then each state where the company qualified to do business.
What this site is for
“National business name search” and “national LLC search” describe the job, not a database. Formation is state law. A company can be an LLC in Wyoming, registered as a foreign LLC in Colorado, and using a county assumed name in Texas. Three records, three offices. A nationwide pass that checks only the headquarters state will miss the foreign qualification.
Foreign qualification is the filing a home-state entity makes in another state before it is authorized to transact business there. The foreign file has its own number and its own status. It can lapse while the home charter stays active. Read both.
Build the list before you search: home state from the contract, states where the company has employees or an office, and any state named in a UCC filing or a license. Then use the state pages here. A multi-state search checklist beats a single box that pretends to be official.
What we will not pretend to be
Nationwide Entity Search is not a national secretary of state and cannot search all official indexes with one government query.
Mail and the form reach hello@nationwideentitysearch.com. Ordering a certificate, filing an annual report, or changing an agent happens on the official portal, not here.