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Nevada LLC Filing on ORION, the Portal That Replaced SilverFlume
SilverFlume was deactivated when the Nevada Secretary of State launched the ORION Business Portal on September 14, 2026. SilverFlume usernames and passwords work in ORION, and SilverFlume's records were migrated to it. Guides that still send you to SilverFlume describe the old system; the steps below are for ORION.
Nevada LLCs used to be filed on SilverFlume. Since September 14, 2026 the Secretary of State's online business filings run through the ORION Business Portal, and SilverFlume has been switched off. This page covers what changed, the ORION login, the three documents a Nevada LLC files together, the reasons filings come back and the yearly filing that follows on the same portal. Or we prepare the documents and submit them on ORION for you.
Updated November 1, 2026. Facts checked October 2026.
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Form Your Nevada LLCWhat ORION Is
ORION is the Nevada Secretary of State's business portal at orion.nv.gov. It took over in phases, and the phase launched on September 14, 2026 completed the replacement of SilverFlume and brought business licensing, marks and notary services into the same system. It is now where a Nevada LLC's formation documents are filed, where the State Business License that comes with them is issued and renewed, where the Annual List is filed every year, and where the Secretary of State's business search lives. The Commercial Recordings Division reviews the filings.
The switch changed the screens and the forms, not the rules. The Secretary of State posts its new required forms on its BizHub site, and the LLC formation packet, revised July 1, 2026, still requires three documents in one submission: the Articles of Organization, the Initial List of Managers or Managing Members, and the State Business License application. Online or on paper, the three go in together, and the company exists only once the division has accepted all three.
We prepare Nevada articles of organization filings and submit them through ORION for customers, the way an accountant or attorney would. Nevada's fee is the same whether you file on ORION yourself or we file for you; this page explains both routes so you can pick one.
- Filing portal
- ORION
- Run by
- Nevada Secretary of State, Commercial Recordings Division
- Document filed
- Articles of Organization
- State fee
- $425
- State expedite tiers
- 24-hour, 2-hour, 1-hour
- Facts checked
- October 2026
Expedite amounts are the state's own and sit in the facts box on the Nevada LLC page. See expedited options by state.
Before You Start on ORION
- An ORION login. Filings are made signed in. A SilverFlume username and password carry over to ORION; if the old login fails, the Secretary of State points people to its password reset page or its phone line.
- The registered agent's signed acceptance. Nevada's articles carry a Certificate of Acceptance of Appointment of Registered Agent that the agent signs, or a separate signed acceptance form is attached. A commercial registered agent is named by name only; a noncommercial agent, including an owner serving for the company, needs a Nevada street address.
- A street address for every manager or managing member. Both the articles and the Initial List carry them, and the Initial List is published on the state's business search. Decide which address each person is comfortable having on the public record before you start.
- Someone in management to sign the Initial List. It is signed by a real person in management, or by someone the company has authorized to sign, with a printed name and title under a declaration made under penalty of perjury. A company cannot sign it.
The ORION LLC Filing, Step by Step
Step 1: Sign in to ORION and start a new Nevada LLC
Sign in at orion.nv.gov with your ORION account, or your old SilverFlume username and password, and start a new business registration for a Nevada limited-liability company under NRS Chapter 86. The Secretary of State's training video for this part is How to Register Your Business.
Step 2: Enter the company name
The name must contain Limited-Liability Company, Limited Liability Company, Limited Company or Limited, or an abbreviation such as LLC, L.L.C., LC, L.C. or Ltd., and be distinguishable from every name on the Secretary of State's records. A word on Nevada's restricted list, such as bank, trust or engineer, needs written approval from the agency that regulates it first.
Step 3: Name the registered agent and attach the acceptance
A commercial registered agent is named exactly as registered, with no address. A noncommercial agent gets a Nevada street address, a mailing address if different and, optionally, an email for electronic notices. The agent signs the Certificate of Acceptance, or a separate signed acceptance is attached. If you choose our registered agent service, our agent is named here.
Step 4: Choose the management and list each manager or managing member
State whether the company is managed by managers or by its managing members, then give the name and street address of each original manager or managing member. A street address, not a post office box, and every name entered becomes public.
Step 5: Set the optional elections
Leave the dissolution date blank for a perpetual company, and leave the series LLC and restricted LLC boxes unchecked unless you mean them. A professional LLC formed under NRS Chapter 89 states the profession and attaches a licensing-board certificate for each manager or member.
Step 6: Complete the organizer block
The organizer's first and last name, address and signature. Nevada lets one or more persons organize an LLC and the organizer need not be an owner, so a filing service can sign; when we file, our organizer signs and our address is printed. For a professional LLC each organizer must be a licensed individual.
Step 7: Complete the Initial List of Managers or Managing Members
Each manager or managing member again, with a title and a street address, signed by a real person in management or an authorized signer with a printed name and title under the perjury declaration.
Step 8: Complete the State Business License application
The company's Nevada business location, or the box for no Nevada location, in which case the registered agent's address is used; both investigation-disclosure questions, answered; an optional business code; and an exemption claim only for the few companies that qualify, such as governmental entities, insurers and 501(c) nonprofits.
Step 9: Pay the state and submit
Pay the state's fee, which covers all three documents, and submit. Nevada's paid expedite tiers are charged on top of it; the amounts are in the facts box on our Nevada LLC page. Once the division files the filing, the stamped articles, the Initial List and the State Business License are returned and the company appears in ORION's business search.
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One short application covers the name search, the Articles of Organization and the submission through ORION.
Form Your Nevada LLCWhy ORION Filings Get Rejected
- Articles submitted without the Initial List and the State Business License application, which Nevada requires in the same filing.
- No signed Certificate of Acceptance from the registered agent, and no separate signed acceptance attached.
- A noncommercial registered agent with a post office box or an address outside Nevada.
- A manager or managing member listed without a street address, on the articles or on the Initial List.
- An Initial List signed in the name of a company rather than by a person in management or an authorized signer, or with the perjury declaration unsigned.
- A name that is not distinguishable from a Nevada entity on record, lacks an accepted ending, or uses a restricted word without the regulator's approval.
- An investigation-disclosure question on the business license application left unanswered.
- On paper, an older version of the formation forms instead of the new required forms the Secretary of State posts on BizHub.
A rejection costs the days the filing sat in the queue, and in some states the name you wanted. Our name check and field review happen before the filing goes to ORION, which is most of what you pay us for. The form itself, field by field: the Nevada Articles of Organization.
Processing and Checking Status
Nevada publishes no standard turnaround for an LLC formation, and we do not promise one. The Secretary of State's formation instructions say only that filing online may reduce processing time, and its site keeps a Processing Dates page.
Nevada sells faster review in three tiers, 24-hour, 2-hour and 1-hour, each charged on top of the filing fee, with the amounts in the facts box on our Nevada LLC page. An expedite shortens the division's review once it has the filing; it does not change how fast the filing reaches the state, which is the part we control.
To check on a filing, search the company name in ORION's business search, the same search the Secretary of State's site links to. Once the division has filed the documents, the LLC appears there with its status.
Official pages: ORION business search · Processing Dates (nvsos.gov) · ORION Business Portal information (nvsos.gov).
The speed we control is when the filing reaches Nevada: same-day LLC filing sends it to ORION the business day your details are in.
After Approval on ORION
- The Annual List and the business license renewal. Every year, by the last day of the anniversary month, the LLC files an Annual List of Managers or Managing Members and renews its State Business License, in one filing on ORION. A company formed in March 2026 files its first by March 31, 2027. Filing late adds Nevada's $175 in late penalties, $75 on the list and $100 on the license, and Nevada revokes an LLC that falls two lists behind; the company then has to be reinstated.
- Changing the registered agent. In Nevada the Annual List is not where the agent changes; a change of registered agent is its own filing with the Secretary of State, made on ORION.
- Later changes. Amendments to the articles and a dissolution are filed with the Secretary of State on ORION too. Nevada has no newspaper publication requirement for LLCs, and the Secretary of State does not file operating agreements.
File the Nevada Annual List online, or have it filed · Annual List and business license renewal on ORION
Filing It Yourself vs Having Us File It
The state fee is the same either way; what changes is who does the work and who is watching when ORION answers.
| Filing it yourself on ORION | Having us file it | |
|---|---|---|
| Checking the name | You search Nevada's records yourself; ORION does not warn you about a taken name before you pay. | We search Nevada's records before anything is submitted and tell you the same day if there is a conflict. |
| Drafting the Articles of Organization | You type each field into ORION and read the state's instructions as you go. | We draft every field the way ORION expects, from one short application. |
| The registered agent | You name one who qualifies under Nevada's rule. | Yours, checked against Nevada's rule, or our registered agent service as an add-on. |
| Watching for a rejection | You watch the email ORION has on file and resubmit if the filing bounces. | We watch the filing through to approval, and a rejection is corrected and refiled. |
| When it is submitted | Whenever you sit down to finish the form. | Standard orders go to Nevada within 3 business days; same-day submission by 2 PM Eastern goes in that business day. |
| Who answers questions | The Nevada Secretary of State's help pages and phone line. | A person on our team, by email, Monday to Friday. |
| The state fee | Paid to Nevada on ORION. | Paid to Nevada, the same amount, itemized before you pay. |
ORION LLC Filing Questions
Is SilverFlume still working?+
No. The Nevada Secretary of State deactivated SilverFlume when it launched the ORION Business Portal on September 14, 2026. SilverFlume usernames and passwords work in ORION, and the records in SilverFlume were migrated there, so a company formed on SilverFlume is found and maintained on ORION now. Search results for SilverFlume can still lead to the old instructions.
Can I file a Nevada LLC myself on ORION?+
Yes. Sign in to ORION, prepare the articles, the Initial List and the business license application in one sitting with the agent's signed acceptance ready, and pay the state's fee. The fee is the same whether you file or we do. What you take on is the name check, three documents that have to agree with each other, the perjury declaration on the Initial List and watching for a rejection. When we file, each of those is checked before the filing goes in.
Do I need an ORION account?+
Yes, filings are made signed in. If you had a SilverFlume login, it works in ORION; the Secretary of State moved the credentials over at launch. If it does not, the Secretary of State's password reset page and phone line are where it sends people.
Why does Nevada need three documents to form an LLC?+
Because Nevada issues the State Business License and records the company's management at formation, not later. The Articles of Organization create the company, the Initial List of Managers or Managing Members names who runs it, and the State Business License application licenses it to do business. The formation instructions, revised July 1, 2026, require all three in the same submission.
Does the registered agent sign in Nevada?+
Yes. The Certificate of Acceptance of Appointment of Registered Agent on the articles is signed by the agent, or a separate signed acceptance form is attached. An owner who lives in Nevada can be the agent at a Nevada street address and signs the acceptance personally; a commercial registered agent signs for the companies it represents.
How long does Nevada take?+
Nevada does not publish a fixed time for LLC formations, and its instructions say only that online filing may reduce it. We do not promise the state's time; when we file, we watch the filing and send you the stamped documents the day they come back. Nevada also sells 24-hour, 2-hour and 1-hour review for an added fee if the state's review itself needs to be faster. Expedited LLC filing by state
When is the Nevada Annual List due?+
By the last day of the company's anniversary month every year, starting the year after formation, together with the State Business License renewal, in one filing on ORION. Late penalties set by the state apply after the due date, and a company two lists behind is revoked. File the Nevada Annual List
Is America LLC Filing part of ORION or the Nevada Secretary of State?+
No. ORION belongs to the Nevada Secretary of State, Commercial Recordings Division, the government office that files Nevada LLCs. America LLC Filing is a private company. We prepare your articles, Initial List and business license application and submit them through ORION for you, and our fee is for that work, separate from the state's own fee.
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