# Foreign qualification

> Foreign qualification — Registering a corporation formed in one state to do business in another — a Delaware corporation with its office or staff in California files there, appoints an agent there and files that state's annual report. "Foreign" means another state, not another country.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/foreign-qualification
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**What is foreign qualification?** In accounting, foreign qualification means registering a corporation formed in one state to do business in another — a Delaware corporation with its office or staff in California files there, appoints an agent there and files that state's annual report. "Foreign" means another state, not another country.

## Also known as

- Certificate of authority

## Words this system refuses for it

- incorporating again
- reincorporation (changing the state of formation)

- **Category:** Entity & compliance
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)