Updated September 3, 2026. 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.
The statute, and why Oklahoma gets miscounted
Section 2054.2, subsection A, authorizes ‘a domestic limited liability company’ to ‘convert to an entity,’ where ‘entity’ is defined in the same section to include ‘a domestic or foreign protected or registered series of a limited liability company, a foreign limited liability company, a domestic or foreign public benefit limited liability company, a domestic or foreign corporation…, a domestic or foreign partnership…, and any domestic or foreign unincorporated nonprofit or for-profit association, trust or enterprise…’ Listing ‘a foreign limited liability company’ expressly as a permitted conversion target is what makes this the outbound domestication-equivalent statute, even though the word ‘domestication’ itself appears nowhere as an operative mechanism in the LLC Act (it shows up exactly twice, both inside the separate appraisal-rights section, § 2054.3, as an undefined item in a list of triggering transactions with no procedure of its own). Subsection G requires the articles of conversion to state the destination entity’s name, type, and jurisdiction.
What the filing costs
Outbound, an Oklahoma LLC files Articles of Conversion with the Oklahoma Secretary of State under 18 O.S. § 2054.2, subsection G, stating the name and type of entity being converted to and its jurisdiction of formation, plus the resulting foreign entity’s agreement to accept Oklahoma service of process for pre-conversion obligations. 18 O.S. § 2055(3) sets a single $100 fee for ‘filing articles of correction, amendment, merger or consolidation, registered series, conversion, or division,’ which covers this outbound conversion filing and does not price inbound and outbound conversions separately.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma’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 Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma, and why it is wrong
Formation-service tables frequently list Oklahoma as a state that does NOT permit LLC domestication, reasoning that its LLC Act contains no section titled ‘Domestication.’
That is a mistaken read of the terminology, not the substance: 18 O.S. §§ 2054.1 and 2054.2 define ‘entity’ to expressly include a foreign limited liability company as both a source and a target of conversion, so the same underlying transaction, an out-of-state LLC becoming an Oklahoma LLC without dissolving and vice versa, is authorized under the label ‘conversion.’ A table keying off the word ‘domestication’ alone will misclassify Oklahoma as a ‘no’ state.
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.
- Oklahoma: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os18.pdf. Statutory text, carried from the 2026-08-12 dataset with search-engine corroboration this session, not a clean independent primary-text re-fetch.