Updated September 3, 2026. 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.
The statute, and why Georgia gets miscounted
The operative outbound provision is O.C.G.A. § 14-11-906(a): a Georgia LLC ‘may elect to become a foreign limited liability company, a foreign limited partnership, or a foreign corporation, if such a conversion is permitted by the law of the state or jurisdiction under whose law the resulting entity would be formed.’ That reciprocity clause is explicit and tied to the destination jurisdiction’s own law. Georgia does not, however, legislate the effect of the outbound move itself: § 14-11-906(e) provides that the conversion ‘shall be effected as provided in, and shall have the effects provided by, the law of the state or jurisdiction under whose law the resulting entity is formed and by the plan of conversion, to the extent not inconsistent with such law.’ Whether the entity continues rather than dissolves is therefore answered by the destination state’s own statute. Georgia’s own same-entity language, at § 14-11-212(d), runs the other way: it covers an entity converting into a Georgia LLC. Georgia never calls any of this ‘domestication’; that word appears nowhere in Title 14, Chapter 11, which is precisely why keyword-driven lists get Georgia wrong.
What the filing costs
For an outbound move, a Georgia LLC electing to become a foreign LLC, foreign limited partnership, or foreign corporation files a Certificate of Conversion with the Georgia Secretary of State’s Corporations Division under §14-11-906(g), stating the LLC’s name, the destination entity type and jurisdiction, and the effective date. Georgia uses the same Certificate of Conversion form and fee for this outbound filing as it does inbound ($95 filed online, $105 by paper), per the Secretary of State’s fee schedule effective July 2022, confirmed only via a Wayback Machine capture since sos.ga.gov blocks automated fetches directly.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Georgia is a filing fee is selling something.
The part this page does not answer
The reason people search for this is usually not the filing. It is the tax exposure: what Georgia’s own revenue agency does when you leave, whether a final return is due, and whether the state agrees the entity has actually stopped doing business there. Those questions are governed by Georgia tax law and administrative practice, not by the entity-law citation above, and this cluster does not source them. We have the entity-law answer at primary and the tax answer not at all.
Two things worth knowing even so, both the general shape rather than a state-specific finding: changing the entity’s state of organization does not by itself end an obligation to register as a foreign LLC anywhere you still do business, and a state’s revenue department is a separate counterparty from its filing office. If you are moving to cut a tax bill, the entity move is the easy half.
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.
What is commonly published about Georgia, and why it is wrong
Formation-service tables that search specifically for the word ‘domestication’ are liable to list Georgia among the states that do not permit an LLC to change jurisdiction while remaining the same entity.
In substance both directions are permitted: inbound via §14-11-212 and outbound via §14-11-906; Georgia’s statute just labels the transaction a ‘conversion’ or ‘election,’ not a domestication.
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.
The full 51-jurisdiction table 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.
- Georgia: https://codes.findlaw.com/ga/title-14-corporations-partnerships-and-associations/ga-code-sect-14-11-906/. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset (subsections (a), (e) and (g) confirmed verbatim on codes.findlaw.com, and § 14-11-212(d) confirmed verbatim there as the true home of the continuity language, which displays a ‘current as of March 28, 2024’ stamp).