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All-in Formation, EIN, agent, address and banking — $899

Start a U.S. company from anywhere

You don't need a Social Security number, a U.S. address, a visa, or a flight. You need an entity, an EIN, a registered agent, a real business address and a bank that will actually approve you — in that order. We handle all five, and you only pay the banking fee once an account is open.

Start my U.S. company How the banking really works
$899All-in, plus the state fee
No SSNRequired at any point
3–5 wksTypical EIN without an SSN
$0Banking fee until you're approved
Who this is for

A U.S. company is a tool, not a loophole

There is no citizenship or residency requirement to own a U.S. LLC. Founders outside the United States form them for four practical reasons, and if none of these is yours, we'll tell you to save your money.

  • Access to U.S. payment rails. Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments and Amazon all work more smoothly — and in some countries only work — with a U.S. entity behind them.
  • Customers who want a U.S. counterparty. Plenty of American businesses simply won't contract with a foreign sole trader.
  • A stable place to hold and move money in dollars, outside a volatile local banking system.
  • Credibility. A registered entity with a real address changes how suppliers, marketplaces and platforms treat you.
What it is not: a way to avoid tax where you live, or a way to be anonymous. You are still taxed by your own country on what you earn, and a U.S. LLC that generates U.S.-source income has its own filing obligations. Anyone selling it to you on either of those grounds is selling you a problem.
A completed formation document packet fanned out on a desk
global founder — progress
Wyoming LLC formed Day 2
Registered agent appointed Day 2
Business address active Day 3
EIN issued (no SSN route) Week 4
Fintech account applicationSubmitted
Stripe account connectedNext
The offer

Global Founder

Everything a founder outside the U.S. needs to be operating, in one price. Buying these separately comes to $1,156.

Global Founder

Formation through to a funded account, handled by one specialist.

$899+ state fee

One-time. Renews at $315/yr for agent, address and compliance — locked at that price for as long as you stay.

Start my U.S. company

Everything included

  • LLC formation in your chosen state
  • EIN without an SSN — the fax and mail route, handled end to end
  • Registered agent, first year
  • U.S. business address with mail scanning, first year
  • Operating agreement drafted for your ownership
  • Bank or fintech account application support
  • Stripe / PayPal / Shopify Payments setup
  • Beneficial ownership report support
  • Compliance calendar with every deadline
  • A named specialist on email and WhatsApp

What it replaces

The same services bought one at a time:

Standard formation package$299
EIN without an SSN$95
Registered agent, year one$125
U.S. business address, year one$190
Banking application support$199
Payment processor setup$149
Beneficial ownership support$99
Bought separately$1,156
You save $257 — and you deal with one person instead of chasing six.

Need an ITIN as well?

Add it at checkout for $1,199 total instead of $1,248 — but read the ITIN section first, because a lot of people are sold one they don't need.

Our guarantees

Three promises, in writing

Every one of these exists because it is the thing founders outside the U.S. are most afraid of.

Pay on approval

The banking portion of your fee is not charged until an account is actually open in your company's name. If no platform approves you, you never pay it. Formation and EIN are billed normally — those we control.

Second platform free

Declined by the first bank or fintech? We rebuild the application for a second platform and submit it at no additional charge. Approval criteria differ far more between providers than people expect.

Locked renewal

Your agent, address and compliance renew at the price you signed up at, for as long as you stay with us. No first-year discount that quietly triples in year two. That practice is why most people leave their last provider.

Banking & payments

How U.S. banking actually works from abroad

This is the part of the industry with the most nonsense in it, so here is the plain version.

Nobody can open an account for you, and you should be suspicious of anyone who says they can. Every regulated bank, fintech and exchange has to verify the beneficial owner directly — that's the law in every jurisdiction that matters. An account opened by a third party in your name is a fraud problem waiting to become your fraud problem.

What we actually do

  • Get your entity, EIN, ownership chart and address documents into the exact shape each platform's compliance team asks for.
  • Tell you which platforms are approving founders from your country this month — this changes constantly and last year's blog post will cost you a rejection.
  • Write the business description and source-of-funds narrative that compliance reviewers actually read.
  • Sit with you through the application and handle every follow-up question they send.
  • Connect Stripe, PayPal or Shopify Payments to the account once it's live.

What we won't do

  • Complete identity verification on your behalf. You do that yourself, from wherever you are.
  • Provide a nominee owner, director or "anonymous" structure.
  • Guarantee approval. Any provider promising it is either lying or planning to blame you afterwards.
  • Work with sanctioned jurisdictions, or with anyone who won't say plainly what the business does.

Where founders are actually getting approved

Type of accountTypical platformsWhat it's good forReality check
Fintech business accounts Mercury, Relay, Lili, Airwallex, Revolut Business Day-to-day operating account, ACH and wires, debit cards The realistic first stop. Approval criteria tightened sharply through 2025–26 and vary by country and industry.
Multi-currency & payouts Wise Business, Payoneer Getting paid by marketplaces, holding several currencies, cheap FX Easiest to obtain, but they are not banks — funds are held at partner institutions.
Traditional U.S. banks Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo Cheques, cash deposits, lending relationships Nearly always requires visiting a branch in person. We'll prepare the pack, but we won't pretend it's remote.
Payment processing Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments Taking card payments from customers Needs the EIN and a funded bank account first. Order of operations matters here.
Crypto business accounts Regulated exchanges with corporate onboarding Treasury, settlement, receiving payment in stablecoins Heaviest verification of anything on this list. See below.

Platform names are listed for orientation only. We are not affiliated with, paid by, or partnered with any of them, and their acceptance policies change without notice. We tell you what we're seeing this month, not what a comparison table said last year.

Crypto business accounts

Corporate onboarding, done properly

Businesses that settle in stablecoins or hold digital assets on the balance sheet need a corporate account at a regulated exchange — not a personal account being used for company money, which is how most people get frozen.

The pack exchanges ask for, prepared for you

  • Certified formation documents and a current certificate of good standing.
  • An ownership and control chart naming every beneficial owner above the threshold.
  • Operating agreement, EIN letter and proof of business address.
  • A written source-of-funds and source-of-wealth narrative — the single most common reason corporate applications stall.
  • A plain description of what the business does and where its money comes from.

Then you complete verification yourself

Exchanges run their own KYC on every beneficial owner and we're not part of that step — deliberately. What we remove is the four weeks of back-and-forth that happens when a compliance team asks for a document nobody prepared.

Talk about a crypto account
Crypto account preparation

Corporate onboarding pack and application guidance for one regulated exchange.

$349one-time

Second exchange, if the first declines: free.

Check if we can help

Includes

  • Full corporate verification pack
  • Beneficial ownership chart
  • Source-of-funds narrative drafted with you
  • Certificate of good standing ordered
  • Application walkthrough and follow-up handling
We screen before we take this on. Some industries and jurisdictions won't get approved anywhere, and we'd rather say so on the call than take $349 from you first.
Tax identity

EIN and ITIN — which do you need?

These get confused constantly, and people are routinely sold the expensive one when they only needed the free-to-us one.

EIN — your company's tax number

Almost everyone needs this. It's the company's federal tax ID, and no bank, fintech or payment processor will open an account without it.

  • No SSN required — the IRS online tool is closed to you, so the application goes by fax or mail on Form SS-4.
  • Realistically three to five weeks. Anyone promising 24 hours without an SSN is either guessing or charging you for luck.
  • We file it, chase it, and get you the CP 575 or a 147C letter.

$95 on its own · included in Global Founder

ITIN — your personal tax number

Many people don't need one. It's for individuals who must file a U.S. tax return but can't get an SSN. Your company's EIN is a separate thing entirely.

  • You likely need it if you have a U.S. filing obligation personally, or a platform is withholding 30% from your payouts and you want a treaty rate.
  • You likely don't if you just want a bank account — an ITIN is not required to open one.
  • Filed on Form W-7 with certified identity documents. Expect several months, and longer in filing season.

$349 · we'll tell you on the call if you can skip it

We are not tax advisers. Whether you owe U.S. tax on what your LLC earns depends on where the work is performed, whether you have a U.S. trade or business, and what your own country's treaty says. That question is worth an hour with a CPA who does international work — and it is not a question a filing service should be answering for you.
The sequence

Order of operations matters

Most failed applications are failures of sequencing, not eligibility. This is the order that works.

Entity & agent

State chosen with you, LLC filed, registered agent appointed. Two to five business days in most states.

Address & documents

U.S. business address activated and your operating agreement drafted — both are asked for in every application that follows.

EIN

Filed the day your articles are approved. This is the long pole: three to five weeks without an SSN, and nothing downstream can start without it.

Banking & payments

Account application prepared and submitted, then Stripe or PayPal connected once it's funded. You're trading.

Questions from abroad

The ones we get every day

Not for formation, not for the EIN, and not for a fintech account. You would need to visit for a traditional branch bank — Chase, Bank of America and similar almost always require an in-person appointment, and we won't pretend otherwise.

If you have no U.S. physical presence, no employees and no office there, you're genuinely free to choose — and this is the one case where Wyoming, New Mexico or Delaware make sense on their merits. Wyoming is the common pick: $100 to file, $60 a year, no state income tax and no member names on the public record.

The moment you have staff or an office in a particular state, form there instead. Otherwise you'll be foreign-qualifying and paying twice.

No, and we won't promise it. Approval depends on your country of residence, your industry, how you describe the business and how the platform's risk appetite happens to be set that month. What we can tell you is that a properly prepared application from a clean industry gets approved far more often than a self-submitted one, and that if the first declines we submit to a second at no charge.

This is exactly why the banking fee is only charged once an account is open. The risk sits with us, not you.

It depends, and the honest answer is that this needs a CPA rather than a filing company. The rough shape: a single-member LLC owned by a non-resident is normally a disregarded entity, and whether its income is taxable in the U.S. turns on whether you have a U.S. trade or business and effectively connected income. Even where no tax is owed, Form 5472 and a pro-forma 1120 are usually still required — and the penalty for missing that is $25,000.

We'll flag the filings on your compliance calendar and introduce you to a CPA who does this work. We don't guess at it ourselves.

Partly, and it's worth being precise about what that means. Wyoming, New Mexico and Delaware don't publish member names in the state formation record, and our address goes on the filing instead of yours. That keeps you out of a Google-indexed database.

It does not make you anonymous. Your bank knows exactly who you are, federal beneficial ownership reporting applies where required, and we will not set up nominee structures. If untraceable ownership is the objective, we're the wrong firm and we'll say so on the first call.

With us: $315 a year for registered agent, business address and the compliance calendar, locked at that price. Plus your state's annual fee — $60 in Wyoming, $0 in New Mexico, $400 in Delaware. See the full state table.

Separately, budget for a CPA to handle your federal filings. That's typically $400–$900 a year for a simple single-member LLC and it is not optional.

Start from wherever you are

Three minutes to give us the details. A specialist replies within four hours with your state recommendation, the real timeline for your country, and an honest read on your banking odds.

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$899 all-in · Banking fee charged only on approval · Renewal price locked for life