Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: you cannot. New Mexico has no statute letting an out-of-state LLC become a New Mexico LLC while remaining the same legal entity, keeping its original EIN, formation date and contract history intact. The route that does work is a merger under NMSA 1978 Section 53-19-62.
Why the answer is no
The full Act was read end to end and searched for domesticat, redomestic, transfer of domicile, continuance, another jurisdiction, another state, and foreign limited liability, with zero hits for domesticat, redomestic, transfer of domicile or continuance anywhere in the statute. The Act has only two provisions that reach across state lines. Sections 53-19-59 through 53-19-60.1 allow an entity-type conversion between a corporation, partnership, or limited partnership and an LLC, but Section 53-19-2.I defines limited liability company and domestic limited liability company as an organization formed under this Act only, with no foreign-inclusive language like the one Section 53-19-2.B gives the term corporation, so that route never lets an out-of-state LLC become a New Mexico LLC, or the reverse, in either direction. Section 53-19-62 permits merger with a foreign limited liability company, which is the honest substitute described below, not a domestication.
The route that does work
NMSA 1978 Section 53-19-62(A) allows a New Mexico limited liability company to be merged with or into one or more limited liability companies, foreign limited liability companies, corporations, foreign corporations, partnerships, foreign partnerships, limited partnerships, foreign limited partnerships, or other domestic or foreign entities, upon a plan of merger approved under the section. This produces a surviving merged entity, not a continuation of the original LLC’s own legal identity. That is an honest limitation: a merger does not guarantee the same EIN, the same contracts, or the same bank relationships carrying forward the way a true domestication would, because legally a new or different surviving entity, not the original LLC, holds those going forward, and counterparties, banks, and the IRS may treat it as a new entity requiring fresh paperwork. Other options in practice are registering as a foreign LLC authorized to transact business in New Mexico while remaining organized in the home state, or dissolving in the home state and forming an unrelated new New Mexico LLC, but neither of those is a same-entity continuation either.
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.
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 is on the domestication states list.
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.
- New Mexico: https://api.realfile.rtsclients.com/publicfiles/ee3072ab0d43456cb15a51f7d82c77a2/1c940b98-cdb8-45ad-839f-7645c176a0c7/ch53art19.pdf. Statutory text, Read 2026-08-12 (statute-tier, verbatim mirror of the official NMSA compilation). Independently re-read on 2026-09-04. The re-read PDF’s text is 115,999 characters, matching the dataset’s own count exactly, and a fresh search of that text again found no occurrence of domesticat, redomestic, or transfer of domicile, so the negative finding is unchanged. Independently confirmed the operative merger text at Section 53-19-62(A) and the $100 fee at Section 53-19-63.C both read verbatim as quoted in the dataset. Honest gap carried forward: this source is a law-firm client-portal PDF mirror rather than the state’s own nmonesource.com site, because nmonesource.com’s chapter-level page is a JS-rendered navigation shell with no retrievable section text; that access limitation was not re-tested or resolved this session, and the original dataset itself marks its own spot-check of this row as UNVERIFIABLE against a second independent route for that same reason, a gap this re-fetch narrows (by reproducing the identical, unchanged full-Act text) but does not fully close, since it used the same single mirror rather than a second independent official source..