My foreign company was already registered in a U.S. state before the 2025 BOI rule changed. If we missed the one-time deadline, where do we even start?
I live in Israel and our main company is formed outside the U.S., but it has been registered to do business in one U.S. state for some time. We were so focused on the headlines about domestic companies dropping out of BOI that we may have missed the one-time deadline that still applied to foreign reporting companies already registered before the March 2025 rule took effect.
I am trying to understand the first practical step now. I do not want to act like the filing vanished if it did not, but I also do not want to assume the entire BOI system works the same way for us as it did before the interim rule.
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