Updated September 3, 2026. 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.
What Nebraska’s statute actually says
Section 21-179(b) reads: ‘A limited liability company may become a foreign limited liability company pursuant to this section, sections 21-180 to 21-182, and a plan of domestication, if: (1) the foreign limited liability company’s governing statute authorizes the domestication; (2) the domestication is not prohibited by the law of the jurisdiction that enacted the governing statute; and (3) the foreign limited liability company complies with its governing statute in effecting the domestication.’ That is a reciprocity condition running against the destination state’s law. Section 21-182 (‘Effect of domestication’) confirms the domesticated entity is the same legal entity continuing without interruption: property, debts, rights, and privileges all carry over, and for an entity leaving Nebraska, the foreign successor consents to Nebraska court jurisdiction for pre-domestication liabilities.
What the filing costs
Outbound, a Nebraska LLC files a statement of domestication under §§ 21-180 to 21-182 with the Nebraska Secretary of State. The general filing-fee statute, § 21-192(1), sets a catch-all fee of $30 (written) or $25 (electronic) for filings under the LLC Act, and separately lists four filing types that instead pay $110/$100: certificate of organization, certificate of authority for a foreign LLC, and two protected-series filings. Domestication filings are not among those four enumerated exceptions, so the $30/$25 catch-all applies by elimination rather than by an express dollar figure written next to the word ‘domestication.’ That is an inference from a verbatim, exhaustive read of the fee statute, not a guess.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Nebraska 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 Nebraska’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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska, and why it is wrong
A claim found while sourcing this row states that Nebraska has no general LLC domestication statute and only permits domestication for insurance companies.
That is disproven by the statute’s own text: § 21-179, part of the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (2010), expressly authorizes domestication for limited liability companies generally, with nothing in the section or its neighbors limiting it to insurers. Nebraska’s separate insurance-code domestication provisions exist too, for insurance companies specifically, but they do not narrow or replace the general LLC provision.
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 move-to-another-state guide, which covers Delaware’s route directly. 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.
- Nebraska: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=21-179. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset.