Updated August 17, 2026. Quick answer: there are three ways to move an LLC to another state, and they are not equally good. If both states allow it, domestication moves the same legal entity — same EIN, same formation date, same contracts and bank accounts. If either end blocks it, merger into a newly formed entity in the destination state is the fallback. Dissolving and re-forming is the third option and it is almost always the worst one. Most advice names the third as the default; it should be the last resort.
Related guides on this topic: Minnesota LLC Annual Report, Mississippi LLC Annual Report and New Hampshire LLC Annual Report.
The three routes, worst to best
| Route | What happens to the entity | When you use it |
|---|---|---|
| Domestication or conversion | The same entity continues under a new state’s law. Formation date, EIN, contracts and accounts carry across. | Both states have a statutory route. This is the case for most corridors. |
| Merger | A new entity is formed in the destination state and the old one merges into it. Rights and liabilities pass by operation of law, but the survivor is a new entity, not a continuation. | Either end lacks a route — which is nine origin states and eight destinations. |
| Dissolve and re-form | The old entity ends. The new one starts from nothing: new formation date, new EIN, contracts reassigned by hand. | Rarely necessary. Every no-route state has a merger path instead. |
The difference between the second and third rows is the practical point of this whole cluster. Merger keeps contracts and (usually) the EIN alive in a way dissolution does not, and every state that lacks a domestication statute still has a merger statute that reaches foreign LLCs. There is nearly always a better answer than starting over.
First, find out whether your two states allow it
43 of 51 jurisdictions permit an LLC to come in; 42 permit one to leave. The full table, with the statute behind every cell, is on the 51-jurisdiction list. The short version is that the answer is usually yes, and that the published lists disagree about it because they count the word rather than the function — 18 states run exactly this mechanism under the caption conversion and get miscounted as states that forbid it.
Check both ends of the move, not just the destination
A move needs two things to be true: your destination has to let the entity in, and your current state has to let it out. Nine states have no statutory route out, so an LLC formed in one of them cannot domesticate anywhere, however welcoming the destination is. That is where most published advice goes wrong — it checks one end.
| State you would be leaving | Why there is no route out | What the code offers instead |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware | the statute affirmatively limits it | 6 Del. C. § 18-209 |
| Kentucky | nothing in the code permits it | KRS 275.345 to 275.365 |
| Massachusetts | the statute affirmatively limits it | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156C, § 59(b) |
| Missouri | nothing in the code permits it | Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127 to 347.135 |
| New Mexico | nothing in the code permits it | NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62 |
| New York | nothing in the code permits it | NY LLC Law § 1001(b), certificate of merger under § 1003 |
| South Carolina | the statute affirmatively limits it | S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-904 |
| Washington | the statute affirmatively limits it | RCW 25.15.416 to 25.15.431 |
| West Virginia | nothing in the code permits it | W. Va. Code § 31B-9-904, articles of merger under § 31B-9-905 |
Delaware is the surprise on that list and it is not a mistake — see the Delaware page. For the other eight, the substitute is a merger, not a dissolution: form the new entity in the destination state and merge the old one into it. Merger produces a surviving entity rather than a continuation, so it is genuinely not the same thing as domestication — but it keeps far more alive than dissolving does.
Some statutes only work if the other state agrees
A large minority of the permitting statutes are conditional: they authorise the transaction only if the other jurisdiction’s law also authorises it. The states whose text carries that condition explicitly are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Hawaii, Maine, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming — some inbound, some outbound, some both. It rarely bites, because the common case is two states that both permit it. It bites hard when one end is on the no-route list, which is the situation the condition exists to describe.
What it costs
The entity-law filing fee runs from $17 in Utah to $350 in Nevada — a twentyfold spread, and not the spread most people expect. Nevada is the dearest in the set and is widely assumed to be cheap. Several routes are two filings rather than one. And the filing fee is not the cost of the move: registered agent, foreign qualification where you still do business in the old state, and any tax clearance the origin state demands all sit outside it. For what formation itself costs by state, see LLC cost by state.
You may not need to move it at all
Two common situations do not call for domestication. If you have simply started doing business in a second state while the entity stays where it is, that is foreign qualification, not a move. If you are keeping property in the old state — a rental, most often — moving the entity may be exactly the wrong step; see moving with a rental property LLC. And if the entity has genuinely finished its work, closing it is cleaner than carrying it to a new state.
Destination guides
What the statute says, what the filing is called and what it costs, for the states people move to most:
- Move an LLC to Florida
- Move an LLC to Texas
- Move an LLC to Arizona
- Move an LLC to Tennessee
- Move an LLC to North Carolina
- Move an LLC to Nevada
- Move an LLC to Georgia
- Move an LLC to Idaho
- Move an LLC to Delaware
- Move an LLC to South Carolina
This page sells nothing and links to no filing service. Moving an LLC is a filing-desk task with a statutory answer, and the answer is either in your two states’ codes or it is not.
Sources
Every row on this page is statutory text. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster — those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Delaware — https://delcode.delaware.gov/title6/c018/sc02/index.html. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- Florida — https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/605.1041. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- Nevada — https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-092a.html. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- New York — https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/1001. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
- Utah — https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title48/Chapter3A/C48-3a_1800010118000101.pdf. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12.
25 more destination guides, added September 3, 2026, each read from the state’s own statute this session.
Moving an LLC out of your state, all 51 jurisdictions
Each row is that state’s own quick answer for LEAVING it, excerpted from its own detail page, which cites the state’s own LLC statute. This table covers the origin side only; for the destination side, see the destination guides above.
| State (moving out of) | Quick answer |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Quick answer:Alabama lets an Alabama LLC convert directly into another state’s LLC while remaining the same legal entity: filed as a ‘conversion,’ not what most searches look for as ‘domestication.’ The current governing section is § 10A-1-8.04, and the move only works if the destination state’s own law permits the conversion and the LLC complies with that state’s requirements too. The filing fee is $100. |
| Alaska | Quick answer:Alaska permits it, in both directions, under AS 10.55.501(a): a domestic entity may become a domestic entity of the same type in a foreign jurisdiction if the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction, an explicit reciprocity condition running against the destination state’s law. Alaska is one of the more literal states here: its own code uses the word ‘domestication’ as a defined statutory term (Article 5 of the Alaska Entity Transactions Act). The baseline entity-law filing fee for an Alaska LLC leaving and not continuing business in Alaska is $25; it rises to $175 if the LLC keeps a registered presence in Alaska afterward. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Arizona | Quick answer:Arizona permits an Arizona LLC to domesticate out into another state’s LLC as the same legal entity, under the Arizona Entity Restructuring Act (effective 2015). The flat filing fee for an Arizona LLC domesticating out is $50, paid to the Arizona Corporation Commission. Arizona’s LLC Act itself (§ 29-4003) directs a domesticating LLC to this chapter, so the route isn’t left to inference. |
| Arkansas | Quick answer:Arkansas permits it, in both directions, under Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-1051: a domestic LLC may become a foreign LLC if the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction, the same reciprocity condition found in most states that adopted a version of the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. Arkansas replaced its old LLC Act with this one (Act 1041 of 2021), effective September 1, 2021, and applied it to every Arkansas LLC, including ones formed earlier. Section 4-38-1053 also requires member approval, generally unanimous unless the operating agreement sets a lower threshold and the affected members separately consent. The entity-law filing fee for the outbound direction is $50. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| California | Quick answer:California does permit it, in both directions, under Cal. Corp. Code § 17710.03; the statute is captioned conversion, which is why California turns up on lists of states that supposedly forbid domestication. The entity-law filing fee is $70. This page covers the entity-law half only. What the Franchise Tax Board does when you leave is a separate question with separate sources, and we have not read them; so we are not going to imply that half is settled. |
| Colorado | Quick answer:Colorado permits it, in both directions, under C.R.S. § 7-90-201. The mechanism is called conversion, not domestication, and it isn’t LLC-specific: it’s Colorado’s single conversion statute covering every entity type. Filing is a Statement of Conversion with the Colorado Secretary of State; the outbound-only fee is $50. |
| Connecticut | Quick answer:Connecticut permits it, in both directions, under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-641(b): a domestic entity may become a domestic entity of the same type in a foreign jurisdiction, provided the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction, the familiar reciprocity condition. Connecticut is one of the cleaner statutes here: its 2014 entity-transactions law (Title 34, Chapter 616) keeps ‘domestication’ (Part V) and ‘conversion’ (Part IV, an in-state entity-type change) as separate, distinctly named parts, so there is little of the naming-trap confusion that trips up states like Delaware or Florida. The entity-law filing fee is a flat $100. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Delaware | Quick answer:Delaware does not let a Delaware LLC domesticate, transfer, or continue into another US state while remaining the same legal entity. 6 Del. C. § 18-213, the provision captioned ‘Transfer or continuance of domestic limited liability companies,’ looks at first glance like Delaware’s outbound domestication statute, but its own text confines the route to ‘any jurisdiction, other than any state’: meaning any foreign country, not another US state. There is no separate Delaware LLC Act provision that reaches an outbound move to another state at all. What works instead is a merger: form a new LLC in the destination state and merge the Delaware LLC into it under 6 Del. C. § 18-209. |
| District of Columbia | Quick answer:The District of Columbia permits it, in both directions, under D.C. Code § 29-809.06(b): an LLC may become a foreign LLC if the foreign jurisdiction’s governing statute authorizes the domestication, the destination allows it, and the LLC complies with the destination’s own law, again a reciprocity condition. DC’s statute (Title 29, Chapter 8, Subchapter IX) is unusual in not reserving the word ‘domestication’ for non-US moves the way Delaware and Florida do: the same mechanism covers both interstate and international jurisdiction changes. The entity-law filing fee is $220. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Florida | Quick answer:Florida permits it, in both directions, under Fla. Stat. § 605.1041(1)(b); but the article actually captioned ‘domestication’ (§ 605.1051) is the wrong one to cite here: it’s reserved for entities formed under another country’s law, not another US state. The statute that actually does the interstate work is titled ‘conversion.’ The entity-law filing fee is $25. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Georgia | Quick answer:Georgia does permit it, in both directions, under O.C.G.A. § 14-11-906: the statute is captioned an ‘election… to convert,’ which is why Georgia turns up on lists of states that supposedly forbid domestication. The Secretary of State filing fee is $95 online. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Hawaii | Quick answer:Hawaii permits it, in both directions, under Haw. Rev. Stat. § 428-902.5(a): a domestic LLC may adopt a plan of conversion and convert to a foreign LLC if the conversion is permitted by and complies with the destination jurisdiction’s law, the usual reciprocity condition. Hawaii is a genuine naming trap in the opposite direction from Delaware: its LLC chapter (428, based on the original 1996 Uniform LLC Act) never uses the word ‘domestication’ at all, captioning the relevant part ‘Conversions and Mergers’ instead, so a table that searches only for the word ‘domestication’ would likely miss Hawaii entirely even though the substance is the same continuation-of-the-same-entity transaction. The entity-law filing fee is a flat $100. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Idaho | Quick answer:Idaho permits it, in both directions, under Idaho Code § 30-22-501(a): the statute itself uses the word ‘domestication,’ so there is no keyword-search trap here. The reciprocity condition is standard: the destination state’s own law has to authorize the move too. The Statement of Domestication filing fee is $30. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Illinois | Quick answer:Illinois permits it, in both directions, under 805 ILCS 415/301(a); but if you’re checking Illinois’s own LLC Act (805 ILCS 180) for this, you’re looking in the wrong place: the sections that used to cover it there were repealed in 2018. The live authority moved to a separate statute, the Entity Omnibus Act. The entity-law filing fee is $100. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Indiana | Quick answer:Indiana permits an Indiana LLC to domesticate out into another state’s LLC as the same legal entity, under Ind. Code § 23-0.6-5-1(a). The flat filing fee is $30, on a current Indiana Secretary of State form (State Form 56358). |
| Iowa | Quick answer:Iowa permits it, in both directions, under Iowa Code § 489.1051(1): the statute itself uses the word ‘domestication,’ so there is no keyword-search trap. The catch for Iowa is a 2023 recodification: the chapter’s section numbers and even its own name changed, so older sources citing the pre-2023 numbering are citing dead law. The Statement of Domestication filing fee is $50. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Kansas | Quick answer:Kansas permits it, in both directions, under K.S.A. 17-78-501(a): the statute’s own section heading is ‘Domestication authorized,’ so there’s no keyword-search trap. The exact dollar fee for the domestication half of the filing could not be confirmed with confidence this session, because the state’s own current fee notice contains what look like two conflicting figures; the bundled LLC-formation-plus-domestication total on the official form is $165. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Kentucky | Quick answer:Kentucky has no domestication or conversion route that lets a Kentucky LLC become another state’s LLC while staying the same legal entity: there is no such section anywhere in KRS Chapter 275. The substitute is merger: form the destination-state LLC and merge the Kentucky one into it under KRS 275.345 to 275.365, with the new entity as survivor. You don’t have to dissolve, but you also don’t keep the original entity’s formation date. |
| Louisiana | Quick answer:Louisiana lets a Louisiana LLC convert its state of organization directly to another state’s, staying the same legal entity throughout: no dissolve-and-reform. The statute is R.S. 12:1308.3, and the move only works if the destination state’s own law doesn’t prohibit it. A specific filing fee for this transaction could not be confirmed from the Secretary of State’s published schedule. |
| Maine | Quick answer:Maine permits it, in both directions, but not under the word ‘domestication’: the LLC Act calls this ‘conversion’ (31 M.R.S. § 1645), and the chapter that is actually captioned ‘Domestication’ (Title 13-C) only reaches corporations, not LLCs. The trap runs deeper than vocabulary, though: § 1645(1) reads, on its face, like it excludes an LLC converting into another LLC, and only tracing the chapter’s own definition of ‘limited liability company’ back to § 1502(14) shows that a foreign LLC counts as ‘an organization other than a limited liability company’ for purposes of that clause. The Statement of Conversion filing fee for an outbound move to a foreign LLC is $175. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Maryland | Quick answer:Maryland permits it, in both directions, under Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass’ns § 4A-1101. The statute calls the mechanism conversion, not domestication: Maryland’s ‘other entity’ definition expressly names foreign limited liability companies and other-state unincorporated business forms, so a Maryland LLC converting into an out-of-state LLC is squarely covered by the text, not merely inferred. Filing is Articles of Conversion with the Maryland SDAT; the outbound-only base fee is $100. |
| Massachusetts | Quick answer:Massachusetts does not let a Massachusetts LLC convert into another state’s LLC while remaining the same legal entity. Chapter 156C (the Massachusetts LLC Act) has no domestication section and no outbound conversion provision at all: its only conversion section runs the other direction and doesn’t reach LLCs either way. The substitute is a merger: a Massachusetts LLC can merge into a newly formed out-of-state LLC under M.G.L. ch. 156C, § 59(b). |
| Michigan | Quick answer:Michigan does permit it, in both directions, under MCL 450.4708: the statute is captioned ‘conversion,’ which is why Michigan is sometimes missing entirely from domestication-permitted lists rather than merely miscategorized. The outbound Certificate of Conversion filing fee is $25. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Minnesota | Quick answer:Minnesota permits it, in both directions, under Minn. Stat. § 322C.1011. Minnesota is unusual in this set for actually using the word ‘domestication’ in its own statute, so there’s no caption trap. A domestication does not dissolve the LLC: the entity continues under the new jurisdiction’s law with the same assets and liabilities. Filing is Articles of Domestication with the Minnesota Secretary of State; the standard mail fee is $60. |
| Mississippi | Quick answer:Mississippi permits it, in both directions, under Miss. Code Ann. § 79-37-501(a): the statute itself uses the word ‘domestication,’ so there is no keyword-search trap. The catch is currency, not vocabulary: the mechanism only took effect January 1, 2015, so any source describing Mississippi as not permitting domestication is more than a decade out of date. The Statement of Domestication filing fee is $50. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Missouri | Quick answer:Missouri has no domestication or conversion route that lets a Missouri LLC become another state’s LLC while remaining the same entity. There is no such section anywhere in RSMo Chapter 347. What you do instead is form the destination-state LLC and merge the Missouri one into it: Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127–347.135, filing fee $25. You do not have to dissolve. |
| Montana | Quick answer:Montana permits it, in both directions, under Mont. Code Ann. § 35-8-1402(1): the statute itself uses the word ‘domestication,’ so there is no keyword-search trap. The real catch is timing: this mechanism did not exist before 2025. The dollar filing fee could not be confirmed from an official source and is left blank rather than guessed. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Nebraska | Quick answer:Nebraska permits it, in both directions, under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-179(b): a Nebraska LLC can become a foreign LLC without dissolving, so long as the destination state’s own law authorizes and does not prohibit the move. The mechanism is called ‘domestication’ in the statute’s own text, so there is no naming trap to unwind. The filing fee is $30 (or $25 if filed electronically), inferred from the general LLC-Act fee schedule since domestication is not one of the four filing types that pay a higher rate. |
| Nevada | Quick answer:Nevada permits it, in both directions, but the vocabulary splits by direction: Nevada’s Chapter 92A article actually titled ‘domestication’ (NRS 92A.270) is inbound-only by its own definition. The outbound route, a Nevada LLC becoming an out-of-state LLC without dissolving, runs instead through the ‘conversion’ article, NRS 92A.195(2), which carries the same reciprocity condition (the destination state’s own law must allow it). The filing fee is $350 either way, set by NRS 92A.210. |
| New Hampshire | Quick answer:New Hampshire permits it, in both directions, under RSA 304-C:205, II: a domestic LLC may become a foreign LLC if the destination jurisdiction’s own law permits the domestication. The statute’s own vocabulary is ‘domestication,’ so there is no naming trap on terminology. The filing fee is $15, reached by elimination: RSA 304-C:191 prices eight other document types by name and Articles of Charter Surrender is not among them, so it falls to the $15 catch-all provision, subsection (k). That reading was confirmed by reading all nine lettered subsections directly, not copied from a dedicated NH-published fee schedule (which remains blocked to automated access). |
| New Jersey | Quick answer:New Jersey does permit it, in both directions, under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-82; and unlike several sibling states, New Jersey’s own statute actually uses the word ‘domestication,’ so there’s no keyword-search trap here. The outbound filing fee is a single $75, not the roughly $225 some formation-service pages describe. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| New Mexico | Quick answer:New Mexico does not let a New Mexico LLC convert into another state’s LLC while remaining the same legal entity. NMSA 1978 Chapter 53, Article 19 (the New Mexico Limited Liability Company Act) has no domestication section and no outbound-reaching conversion provision: its ‘conversion’ sections (§§ 53-19-60, 53-19-60.1) only change entity TYPE within New Mexico, not jurisdiction. What works instead is a merger: form a new LLC in the destination state and merge the New Mexico LLC into it under NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62, filing fee $100. |
| New York | Quick answer:New York has no domestication or conversion route that would let a New York LLC become another state’s LLC while staying the same entity. There is no such section anywhere in the LLC Law. What you do instead is form the destination-state LLC and merge the New York one into it; NY LLC Law § 1001(b), certificate of merger under § 1003, with a filing fee of $60. You do not have to dissolve. |
| North Carolina | Quick answer:North Carolina does permit it, in both directions, under N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 57D-9-30 to 57D-9-33: the statute is captioned ‘Conversion,’ which is why North Carolina turns up on lists that supposedly forbid domestication. The standalone outbound filing fee is $50. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| North Dakota | Quick answer:North Dakota permits it, in both directions, under N.D. Cent. Code § 10-32.1-67(2): a domestic LLC may become a foreign LLC if the destination state’s own law authorizes and does not prohibit the domestication. This is one of the cleaner citations on this list: North Dakota’s own statute uses ‘domestication’ as a defined, dedicated term, distinct from its separately defined ‘conversion’ (entity-type change) and ‘merger’ articles, so there is no naming trap. The base filing fee is $50, with a conditional $135 add-on depending on what the resulting entity becomes. |
| Ohio | Quick answer:Ohio permits it, in both directions, under Ohio Rev. Code § 1706.72(A); but the word ‘domestication’ does not appear anywhere in Ohio’s LLC Act. The function lives inside the generic ‘Conversion’ provisions and only becomes visible once you trace Ohio’s own definitions: the Act defines ‘limited liability company’ as Ohio-domestic-only, so ‘an entity other than a limited liability company’ reaches a foreign LLC by exclusion, not by name. The filing fee could not be confirmed on an official state page. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Oklahoma | Quick answer:Oklahoma permits it, in both directions, but not under any section captioned ‘domestication’: the Oklahoma Limited Liability Company Act has no domestication article at all. The cross-jurisdiction move is authorized under the ‘conversion’ sections, 18 O.S. §§ 2054.1 (entity-to-LLC) and 2054.2 (LLC-to-entity), whose definition of ‘entity’ expressly includes a foreign limited liability company. A list built by keyword-searching for ‘domestication’ will misclassify Oklahoma as a non-permitting state. The filing fee is a flat $100. |
| Oregon | Quick answer:Oregon lets an Oregon LLC convert directly into another state’s LLC and remain the same legal entity: no dissolve-and-reform. The governing section is ORS 63.470(2), and it carries a real condition: the destination state’s own law has to permit the conversion, and the LLC has to comply with whatever that state requires too. The Secretary of State’s published fee schedule lists $275 for an outbound conversion, though that specific figure carries a currency caveat. |
| Pennsylvania | Quick answer:Pennsylvania permits it, in both directions, under 15 Pa.C.S. § 371(a); and Pennsylvania is unusual in that its own statute actually uses the word ‘domestication,’ with an entire subchapter captioned that way. The catch is that Pennsylvania also runs a separate ‘Conversion’ subchapter for in-state entity-type changes, and some published pages cite that one by mistake. The entity-law filing fee for the outbound direction is $70. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Rhode Island | Quick answer:Rhode Island permits it, in both directions, under R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 7-16-5.1 and 7-16-5.2; the statute calls the transaction ‘conversion,’ not ‘domestication,’ which is exactly why some published lists miss Rhode Island entirely. Unlike a few neighboring states, Rhode Island’s outbound clause does not carry an explicit textual condition requiring the destination state’s own law to authorize the move. The outbound filing fee is a flat $50. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| South Carolina | Quick answer:South Carolina does not let an LLC formed there convert or domesticate into another state’s LLC while remaining the same legal entity: there is no such route anywhere in the LLC Act. The chapter’s only cross-jurisdiction mechanism for LLCs is merger, under S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-904, which produces a surviving entity rather than a continuation. South Carolina does have a statute captioned ‘Domestication’ (Title 33, Chapter 9), but by its own definitions that chapter reaches corporations only, not LLCs. |
| South Dakota | Quick answer:South Dakota permits it, in both directions, under S.D.C.L. § 47-34A-910(b), and South Dakota is one of the more straightforward states here: its own statute actually uses the word ‘domestication,’ so there is no keyword-search trap. What is genuinely unresolved is the fee: South Dakota’s official fee schedule prices Articles of Domestication only for corporations, not LLCs, so this page does not assert an LLC filing fee. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Tennessee | Quick answer:Tennessee permits a Tennessee LLC to convert into another state’s LLC as the same legal entity, under Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-704: Tennessee’s caption is ‘conversion,’ not ‘domestication,’ but the substance is the same. The flat filing fee is $20, on Tennessee’s own Certificate of Conversion form. |
| Texas | Quick answer:Texas permits it, in both directions, under Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 1.002(10): the statute calls the transaction ‘conversion,’ not ‘domestication,’ which is exactly the kind of caption mismatch that makes states like this one drop off keyword-built lists. The catch is a reciprocity condition: Texas only treats the move as a conversion if the other state’s own law would itself characterize it as a domestication, continuance, or transfer: Texas’s SOS says this outright in its own form instructions. The entity-law filing fee is $300. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Utah | Quick answer:Utah permits it, in both directions, under Utah Code § 48-3a-1051(1), conditioned on the destination jurisdiction’s law authorizing the domestication. The filing fee is a flat $17. This page covers the entity-law half only. One freshness note worth flagging: the currently-effective citation is scheduled to be repealed and recodified into a new title within weeks of this page going live. |
| Vermont | Quick answer:Vermont permits it, in both directions, under 11 V.S.A. § 4152(b), conditioned on the destination jurisdiction’s law authorizing the domestication. The outbound-only filing fee is $20. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Virginia | Quick answer:Virginia does permit it, in both directions, under Va. Code § 13.1-1075(B): the statute uses the word ‘domestication’ itself, so there’s no naming trap here. The outbound Articles of Domestication filing fee is $25. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
| Washington | Quick answer:Washington does not let a Washington LLC convert into another state’s LLC while remaining the same legal entity. There is no domestication section, and no outbound-reaching conversion route, anywhere in RCW 25.15: the Washington Secretary of State’s own LLC filing catalog offers only entity-TYPE conversion destinations (corporation, LP/LLLP, LLP), never an out-of-state LLC. What works instead is a merger: form a new LLC in the destination state and merge the Washington LLC into it under RCW 25.15.416–.431. |
| West Virginia | Quick answer:West Virginia does not let a West Virginia LLC convert into another state’s LLC while remaining the same legal entity. There is no domestication section and no outbound-reaching conversion route anywhere in W. Va. Code ch. 31B: Article 9 has no ‘transfer,’ ‘continuance,’ or outbound-domestication section, and Article 10 only addresses foreign LLCs doing business in West Virginia, never a West Virginia LLC leaving. The substitute is a merger into a newly formed out-of-state LLC, under W. Va. Code § 31B-9-904. |
| Wisconsin | Quick answer:Wisconsin permits it, in both directions, under Wis. Stat. § 183.1041; but the operative statute is captioned ‘conversion,’ not ‘domestication,’ even though ch. 183 subch. X also contains an article literally named ‘Domestication’ that does not cover this transaction. Filing is Articles of Conversion with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, filing fee $150. The outbound direction also carries a reciprocity condition: the destination jurisdiction’s law must permit the conversion too. |
| Wyoming | Quick answer:Wyoming permits it, both directions, but Wyoming names the two directions differently: leaving is a ‘transfer’ under § 17-29-1011, arriving is a ‘domestication’ under §§ 17-29-1012 to -1013. Leaving requires two filings, one to the destination state and one to Wyoming, plus a year of continued Wyoming registered-agent coverage. The Wyoming-side filing fee for leaving is $60. This page covers the entity-law half only. |
Coverage, stated honestly: 51 of 51 jurisdictions.
16 more destination guides, added September 4, 2026, closing this family to all 51 jurisdictions, each read from the state’s own statute this session.