# Foreign qualification

URL: /systems/legal-and-corporate/foreign-qualification · Id: `capability:foreign-qualification`

> Foreign qualification registers the Company in each other state where it has employees or presence, and keeps each registration in good standing.

Foreign qualification registers the [Company](/business/nouns/company) in each other state where it has employees or an office, and keeps each registration in standing.

## Contract
| Clause | Terms |
| --- | --- |
| Starts | [Tax](/systems/tax) or [Workforce](/systems/workforce) finds presence in a new state. |
| Steps | A good-standing certificate from the home state, the application filed through a registered agent in the new state, and that state’s annual clocks added. |
| Signs | An officer signs each application ([Governance](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/governance)). |
| While held | Inherited. The Studio-held entity holds the registration. |
| Records | One registration [Credential](/business/nouns/credential) per state. |

## Verbs
None.

## Interfaces
- [API](/code/api/reference)
- [SDK](/code/sdk/reference)
- [CLI](/code/cli/reference)
- [MCP](/code/mcp/reference)

## Upstream
filings.legal, under an Agreement.

## Example
A data-labeling service hires its first reviewer in another state. The Company is registered there before her first payday, and that state’s annual report joins the clock.