Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: yes: an LLC formed in another state can become an Indiana LLC and stay the same legal entity, keeping its EIN, formation date and contracts. Indiana’s statute calls the mechanism domestication, at Ind. Code § 23-0.6-5-1(b). The filing fee is $30. The catch is at the other end of the move, not this one: Indiana’s statute also requires that the domestication be authorized by the law of the LLC’s originating jurisdiction.
What Indiana’s statute actually says
The operative provision is Ind. Code § 23-0.6-5-1(b), part of Indiana’s 2018 Uniform Business Organization Transactions Act (Title 23, Article 0.6), and the state’s own term for the transaction is domestication, a chapter (Chapter 5) textually separate from Chapter 3’s entity-type conversion. LLCs are reached only through Article 0.6’s cross-entity ‘Entity’ definition (IC 23-0.5-1.5-8(5)), which is the definitional trap this kind of provision has to clear: the mechanism must expressly reach an entity formed under another jurisdiction’s law, not merely let one Indiana entity type become another. One honest caveat: Indiana’s own legislature site, iga.in.gov, serves a client-rendered page that returns no usable statute text, so the statute language here was read from a codes.findlaw.com mirror rather than the official site directly, a currency risk the underlying research flagged rather than concealed. That risk is meaningfully reduced by independent corroboration at OFFICIAL tier: a current, dated Indiana Secretary of State filing form prints the same statute citations and fee directly on its header.
What the filing is and what it costs
Articles of Domestication filed with the Indiana Secretary of State (INBiz) under Ind. Code §§ 23-0.5-9-51 / 23-0.6-5-5; for an inbound domestication, the LLC’s Articles of Organization are attached to the SAME filing as ‘Exhibit A’ rather than filed separately
That is the entity-law filing fee only. Registered agent, foreign qualification in any state where you still do business, and any tax clearance the state you are leaving demands are all separate.
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.
What is commonly published about Indiana, and why it is wrong
Formation-service pages (banned sources, read only to identify the claim) commonly state Indiana LLC domestication costs $130 total, implying a separate $100 Articles-of-Organization fee on top of a $30 domestication fee.
Indiana’s own official Secretary of State form (‘Articles of Domestication, Foreign Entity Domesticating to Indiana LLC’) attaches the Articles of Organization as Exhibit A inside the single Articles-of-Domestication filing and prints one line (‘FILING FEE: $30.00’) with no second $100 line item, so nothing on the state’s own form supports paying $130 for one domestication filing.
What this page does not tell you
This is entity law. It does not tell you whether the IRS will treat your Indiana LLC as a continuation for federal tax purposes, what happens to your EIN, or what the state you are leaving will want in tax clearance before it lets the entity go. Those are real questions with different sources behind them, and we would rather leave the gap visible than fill it with something we have not read. 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.
The full 51-jurisdiction table, with the statute behind every cell, is on the domestication states list; the three routes are compared on how to move an LLC to another state.
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.
- Indiana: https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-23-business-and-other-associations/in-code-sect-23-0-6-5-1.html. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12, independently re-fetched from the same official source and confirmed unchanged, 2026-09-03.