Filing History / Annual Return in Luxembourg
A filing history / annual return in Luxembourg is a chronological company record drawn from the corporate register and delivered to you as a certified extract. REGISTRUM confirms availability, the issuing authority and the fee before you order; where the access regime is not yet confirmed against the primary source, we say so rather than guess.
What a Luxembourg filing history / annual return shows
A filing history is built around a fixed set of fields: entity name, registration number, legal form, registered office, incorporation date, filing dates, the type of each filing lodged, and the current status of the entity on the register. An annual return adds a snapshot – directors, shareholders of record where disclosed, share capital, and the date the return itself was filed.
Together the two documents form the spine of a company's public paper trail in the jurisdiction, showing what was filed and when rather than what any filing meant for the company's affairs. Not every field is populated for every entity, and the content of a given filing history varies with the age of the company, the number of amendments it has recorded, and the completeness of historical digitisation at the register.
Where the underlying register content for Luxembourg is still being confirmed against the primary source, this page describes the document type in general terms rather than asserting a fixed Luxembourg-specific field list. A certified Luxembourg extract, once issued, is standardised in form even where the substantive content behind it differs from one entity to the next.
For an incorporation-stage document rather than a filing history, the closest relative is a certificate of incorporation; the two are not interchangeable, and a filing history is ordered specifically because it shows the sequence of filings rather than the single fact of formation. The Luxembourg filing history is ordered as often for pre-signing checks as for file-closing records, and both uses draw on the same document.
Compliance teams typically request the record to confirm a company's continued filing pattern before onboarding it as a customer or counterparty, and corporate secretaries managing cross-border filings use it to check that a Luxembourg entity has kept its own filings current. Neither use turns the record into an assessment of the company itself; it remains a record of what was filed, not a judgement on the company's standing.
A filing history is not the same record as a certificate of good standing, and a reader who needs confirmation that a company remains active should say so on the order form rather than assume the two documents overlap.
What a Luxembourg filing history / annual return does not show
A filing history is a record of filings and their dates, not a record of the substance behind them. It does not show whether a filing was accurate at the time it was lodged, and it does not carry an assessment of the entity's financial position, its solvency, or its trading conduct. A reader looking for those facts needs a separate document, not a more detailed reading of this one.
Beneficial ownership, where it is held on a distinct register in Luxembourg, sits outside the filing history and is confirmed as a separate order rather than assumed to be included here. Annual accounts and financial statements, where filed, are typically a separate lodgement from the annual return itself, and a filing history entry that a set of accounts was filed is not the same as a copy of those accounts. Litigation, insolvency proceedings and court-ordered changes to a company's status are held, where they are held at all, in judicial or insolvency records rather than in the corporate filing history, and under the law in force in Luxembourg the two registers are not merged into a single search.
Whether the access regime for the underlying Luxembourg corporate register is open, restricted or closed to a foreign applicant is being confirmed against the primary source; this page does not assert a regime that has not yet been checked, and the order form states the position before any payment is taken.
How a Luxembourg filing history / annual return is obtained
The document is issued by the corporate register that holds the entity's filings in Luxembourg; REGISTRUM does not yet publish the specific authority name, the fee and the confirmed turnaround on this page because the regime for this register is still being checked against the primary source, and a name stated before that check is complete would be a guess rather than a fact. Price on request.
Once availability is confirmed, the fee is quoted with the date it was verified, and the order proceeds on that basis rather than on a published figure that may have moved since it was last checked. The same applies to turnaround: a delivery date is given at the point of order rather than promised in advance on a page that serves every reader regardless of what has changed at the register since it was last checked.
Language of issue and the availability of an English version are part of the same check; where the register issues only in the language of the Luxembourg administration, a certified translation can be added as a separate step rather than assumed to come with the base document. Whether a foreign applicant can obtain the record without a local representative, a Luxembourg electronic signature or a national identifier is exactly the kind of access barrier this page flags rather than glosses over, and it is confirmed before the order is accepted, not after. Where the record is delivered electronically, REGISTRUM supplies it as a certified PDF bearing the register's own certification rather than a REGISTRUM-generated summary.
Reuse of the document delivered by REGISTRUM is limited to the purpose it was ordered for, per document, rather than granted as a standing licence to redistribute or re-issue it.
Price, add-ons and the empty-order rule
Price on request; the fee is confirmed against the register before you pay, not published as a fixed figure that may already have moved. Apostille, certified translation, courier delivery and a rush turnaround can each be added to the order, and each extends the stated delivery window by an amount confirmed when you order rather than fixed on this page. If the document does not exist in this jurisdiction or cannot be obtained for you, we say so before you pay and we do not take the order.
How long does a filing history / annual return from Luxembourg take?
Turnaround depends on two checks that happen before an order is confirmed: whether the document is available at all, and what the register's own processing time currently is. REGISTRUM states a delivery date once both are confirmed, rather than publishing a fixed number of days that might not hold for every entity or every filing pattern.
Will a Luxembourg document be accepted abroad without an apostille?
Acceptance abroad is decided by the receiving authority, not by REGISTRUM, and the same document can be treated differently by two different offices in two different countries. Where the destination is known to require an apostille or a further legalisation step, this can be added to the order; where it is not known, REGISTRUM does not promise an outcome it cannot control.
What does a filing history / annual return in Luxembourg not show?
It shows filings and their dates, not the substance behind them: no assessment of solvency, no litigation record, and no beneficial ownership detail, each of which sits in a separate register in Luxembourg where one is held at all. A reader who needs those facts orders the separate document that actually contains them, rather than reading this one more closely.
Can a filing history for a Luxembourg company be ordered from outside the EU?
Yes; the order form asks for the entity, the jurisdiction and the date the document is needed by, and REGISTRUM confirms availability from wherever the request is made. Whether a foreign applicant can obtain the record without a local representative is confirmed as part of that check, not assumed in either direction before it is done.
Does the Luxembourg filing history include a certified translation as standard?
No; the base order delivers the document as issued by the register, in whichever language that register uses. A certified translation is an add-on, confirmed and priced separately once the base document and its language of issue are established, not bundled into the document by default.
REGISTRUM catalogues this record as filing history / annual return Luxembourg, matching the record type precisely to the jurisdiction it comes from. State the entity, the jurisdiction and the date you need it by; REGISTRUM confirms availability and the fee before you pay. For the underlying document type, the filing history documents overview sets out how this Luxembourg company document sits alongside the other corporate extracts REGISTRUM handles.
REGISTRUM obtains and delivers official records issued by public registers and licensed registered agents. This page describes what those records contain and how they are obtained. It is not advice on the legal effect of any record. To order, write to info@registrumfirm.com.