Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: yes: an LLC formed in another state can become an Alaska LLC and stay the same legal entity, keeping its EIN, formation date and contracts. Alaska’s statute calls the mechanism domestication, at AS 10.55.501. The filing fee is $275 for an LLC with no prior Alaska registration. Alaska permits the move only if the LLC’s home state also authorizes it to leave.
What Alaska’s statute actually says
AS 10.55.501 sits in Article 5 of the Alaska Entity Transactions Act, a version of the Model Entity Transactions Act, and ‘domestication’ is a defined statutory term there, distinct from the separate conversion article at AS 10.55.401 to .406 that covers changing entity type. Subsection (b) states that ‘a foreign entity may become a domestic entity of the same type in this state if the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign entity’s jurisdiction of organization,’ a reciprocity condition tying Alaska’s permission to the departing state’s own law. AS 10.55.901 defines ‘foreign entity’ broadly as ‘an entity other than a domestic entity’ and defines ‘domesticating entity’ to include the foreign entity that approves the domestication under its home law. Alaska’s LLC Act cross-references the same mechanism at AS 10.50.075.
What the filing is and what it costs
The inbound filing is a Statement of Domestication (Division of Corporations form 08-0595, for an LLC with no prior Alaska entity number), filed with the Alaska Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, together with Articles of Organization for the new Alaska LLC.
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 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.
What this page does not tell you
This is entity law. It does not tell you whether the IRS will treat your Alaska 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.
- Alaska: https://codes.findlaw.com/ak/title-10-corporations-and-associations/ak-st-sect-10-55-501/. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12 (statute-tier mirror; the official form host commerce.alaska.gov was a confirmed hard block); independently re-read on 2026-09-04 from the same findlaw URL, which had refused a first attempt. That read returned the identical operative text quoted above and confirmed the page is marked ‘Current as of January 01, 2025.’ commerce.alaska.gov was not retried and is assumed still closed to outside access, based on the original research; the $275 fee figure traces to a directly PDF-read Wayback capture of the official form from the 2026-08-12 pass, not to today’s re-fetch..