The US LLC for Non-Residents: The Complete Guide 🇺🇸

Everything you need to know to form, run and keep compliant a US LLC when you are not a US resident. Written by someone who runs one, with no dream sold: the guide also tells you who the LLC is useless for.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND

• The five-box test: is the LLC the right tool for you, or not
• The honest comparison: LLC, Estonia, Dubai, UK Ltd… or nothing at all
• The real cost over 3 years, the figure no website publishes
• Formation step by step: the Wyoming filing, the operating agreement (full template with commentary), the EIN without an SSN: Form SS-4 line by line
• The bank account: which provider to choose in 2026, the file that passes, and the trick questions ("Do you have US operations?")
• Getting paid: Stripe, invoices, and the W-8BEN everyone confuses with the W-9
• The annual calendar: Wyoming report, Form 5472 (the $25,000 omission) and where the BOI rule stands
• The scary situations: account refused, account closed, an LLC already out of compliance and how to catch up, closing properly
• The 12 mistakes that cost dearly
• 7 appendices: ready-to-use templates (operating agreement, invoice, Form 5472 register, annotated SS-4, one-page calendar, glossary, official links)

17 chapters · 7 appendices · PDF designed to read on a phone
Updates included: purchasers receive the guide's revisions.

WHO IT IS FOR

Non-US entrepreneurs and freelancers who have moved, or are moving, to a territorial-tax country (Paraguay, Panama, Georgia, Costa Rica…) and want to invoice internationally, either doing it themselves or knowing exactly what they are delegating.

NOT FOR YOU IF

You are and remain tax resident in a country that taxes worldwide income (UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, India, Spain…): the LLC will change nothing about your tax, and chapter 0 explains why. This guide sells no magic structure.

QUESTIONS

"Is this tax advice?" No. It is general information, dated and sourced, with the forms done step by step. For a decision that depends on your specific situation, the guide tells you when to consult.

"Does the content stay current?" The rules move (the IRS changes its fax numbers, the BOI rule has already changed). Every figure is dated, and updates to the guide are included.

"What if I would rather delegate?" Each step says honestly what the done-for-you version looks like. Our services are on expat-llc.com/en; the guide is complete, nothing is held back to force your hand.

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