Where these rules live
The registration procedure, its deadlines and its fees are not in the LLC law. They sit in Annex 1 to Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 66 of 09.02.2017, a document amended more than fifty times — five times in 2026 alone. Every figure below was read as at 7 August 2026.
That is why older articles on this subject are so often wrong, and why every amount here carries its unit and its date.
1. Before you file
The name
Reserving a name is not a separate step: as the application is built, the System automatically reserves the chosen Latin-alphabet name for 60 calendar days. It can be extended once, for up to 12 months, for 1× BHM. Uniqueness is checked automatically (Res. 66, para. 11).
What the name itself must and must not be is in the Law on Firm Names (OʻRQ-51):
- the name must state the legal form; a short form may be used alongside the full one (art. 3);
- the exclusive right to the firm name arises on state registration, not on reservation (art. 3);
- article 4 forbids: the official name of a state, or the name of an international, intergovernmental or non-governmental organisation (without the relevant body's permission); the name of a historical or well-known person without permission; anything false or liable to mislead about the owner, its activity or its country of origin; and anything contrary to the public interest, humanity or morality;
- also forbidden: names already registered or applied for by another legal entity with earlier priority; registered or applied-for trademarks; well-known marks; and protected geographic indications or appellations of origin, or anything confusingly similar to them.
Passing the System's automatic check is not the same as having a lawful name. The System tests uniqueness against existing firm names only. It does not see trademarks, well-known marks or geographic indications — and a collision with those remains unlawful under article 4 and a ground for refusal under para. 40 of Resolution 66. Check the trademark register separately.
The legal address
No document proving the address is filed. But para. 40 makes it a ground for refusal if the address given in the founding documents is absent from the tax and cadastre databases. So the address must be real and already on record before you file, even though nothing is attached to prove it.
2. What you file
The list is shorter than most sources claim. For an application filed through the System, para. 12 lists:
- the founding documents, in the state language. For an ordinary privately-founded MChJ this is the only attachment;
- an antimonopoly authority decision — only for entities with state participation and their affiliates;
- a State Assets Management Agency order — only for state institutions and certain companies;
- a transfer act or separation balance — only on reorganisation.
The founding documents may be drawn on model forms or in another form — using a model form is optional (para. 12).
Three things the regulation does not require, which secondary sources list routinely:
- notarisation — the word does not appear in the list of attachments;
- separate identity documents — for an online filing, identity comes through the Single Identification System;
- a proof-of-payment document — the duty is paid inside the System and verified automatically.
Technical requirements (para. 13): attachments must be electronic documents; PDF scans of paper documents are accepted at not less than 200 dpi, one file per document, each no more than 10 MB.
3. Who signs — and the chain for a foreign founder
Founders who are Uzbek citizens confirm their consent through the Single Identification System or Face-ID. Non-citizens are excluded from that route, and where the founders include a person who is not an Uzbek citizen, the application must be signed with an ERI, an electronic digital signature (para. 13).
Getting to that signature takes three steps, and each one gates the next:
- PINFL — Cabinet Res. 177 of 12.04.2022, as amended by Res. 538 of 26.08.2025. Obtained remotely through the Ministry of Internal Affairs' e-Residency platform: upload an identity document with its photo and pass Face-ID with liveness detection. Three working days, no fee.
- ERI — Cabinet Res. 413 of 29.07.2022. Apply in person at an Uzbek consular institution abroad with the original identity document, the PINFL obtained in Uzbekistan, and a receipt for the consular fee. Issued in real time, valid for up to 24 months; the private-key password is emailed. Refusal is possible only for false or distorted data or improperly executed documents — refusal as "inexpedient" is forbidden, as is demanding any document the regulation does not list.
- File the application, signed with that ERI.
The hard step is the second one. The PINFL is remote; on the text checked, the ERI requires attending a consulate in person. That is the confirmed route to an ERI; this article does not claim it is the only one.
4. Where to file
Registration is carried out by Public Service Centres (para. 2). The filing routes (para. 4):
- online — through the System on the Single Portal;
- in person — under chapter 5 of the regulation: paper originals in one copy, which the officer scans and returns (paras. 31, 37);
- us-uz.gov.uz — since 21 July 2026, for applicants in the USA (added to Resolution 66 by Cabinet Res. 393 of 20.07.2026). Applications made through it are processed under the same regulation. The platform's own published procedure was not checked for this article, so what is recorded here is only that the route exists.
On an in-person filing a representative may act: they show an identity document and a document establishing authority — a power of attorney, a contract, or the founders' decision. The regulation does not require the power of attorney to be notarised (para. 31).
5. Time and cost
Registering a legal entity is done in real time, within no more than 30 minutes (Annex 3). There is no multi-day review period.
The 16-working-hour and expedited 2-working-hour tracks apply to re-registration involving a charter-fund change or a share transfer. The expedited track costs an extra 1× BHM, refunded if it is not in fact used (para. 23).
The state duty is set by the Law on State Duty (OʻRQ-600) and calculated automatically by the System (para. 14). For a legal-entity business subject it is 1× BHM — the same for an enterprise with foreign investment.
1× BHM = 412,000 soʻm as at 7 August 2026; 440,000 soʻm from 1 September 2026 (PF-115 of 23.06.2026).
The duty is not refunded, including where registration is refused (paras. 14, 48).
6. Refusal
The grounds are listed in para. 40. Those that reach an ordinary founder: the duty unpaid or underpaid; incomplete documents or data; a charter fund below the Annex 11 minimum where one applies; a firm name that breaches the Law on Firm Names; an address absent from the tax and cadastre databases; the founder having died or been liquidated; and a set of disqualifications attaching to the person who will head the management body — being on a sanctions list, legal incapacity, an unexpired court-imposed ban on business activity, serving a custodial sentence, or having been the founder or head of a business liquidated for insolvency less than three years ago. That last group was added by Cabinet Res. 40 of 30.01.2026 and took effect on 1 July 2026.
For a company with foreign founders, para. 41 adds one more: a mismatch between the foreign-investment share stated in the founding documents and the share legislation requires.
Two limits work in the applicant's favour:
- para. 45 — refusal on any other ground, including inexpediency, is not permitted;
- para. 46 — a refusal is no bar to filing again once the ground is cured; and para. 48 — on re-examination the authority may not raise grounds it did not state the first time.
Appeal. OʻRQ-598 art. 61: decisions of state bodies that breach or restrict the rights of an investment-activity subject may be appealed to a higher body or to a court. The article states neither a period nor a procedure, so this article does not state a deadline either — check the applicable period before bringing an appeal.
7. What you receive
The output is an electronic certificate: para. 3 defines it as an "electronic document", signed with the responsible officer's ERI and carrying a QR code and identification numbers. It and the founding documents are stored in the electronic document repository on the Single Portal and delivered as a link to the entity's cabinet and to the email address given. Copies may be printed; there is no paper original (paras. 16–18).
- STIR, the taxpayer identification number, is assigned automatically and in real time as the application is built (Annex 4, ch. 3, para. 11).
- Statistics registration is pushed automatically no later than the following day (para. 12).
Neither is a separate errand.
The bank account (para. 19). After registration the entity approaches a bank; the bank may not demand originals or copies of the certificate or the founding documents. Banks may open accounts remotely during registration where they can identify the applicant remotely under FATF requirements — but that provision is written for entities whose founders are residents of Uzbekistan. On non-resident founders the regulation says nothing either way.
A seal. Under art. 3 of OʻRQ-1137, having one is a right, not an obligation. Resolution 66 requires a seal at no stage.
Where to go next
Choosing a form, and what an MChJ commits you to, are in a separate article; the side-by-side against a Delaware LLC is in the comparison table.