Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: New Hampshire permits it, in both directions, under RSA 304-C:205, II: a domestic LLC may become a foreign LLC if the destination jurisdiction’s own law permits the domestication. The statute’s own vocabulary is ‘domestication,’ so there is no naming trap on terminology. The filing fee is $15, reached by elimination: RSA 304-C:191 prices eight other document types by name and Articles of Charter Surrender is not among them, so it falls to the $15 catch-all provision, subsection (k). That reading was confirmed by reading all nine lettered subsections directly, not copied from a dedicated NH-published fee schedule (which remains blocked to automated access).
What New Hampshire’s statute actually says
RSA 304-C:205, II reads: ‘A domestic limited liability company may become a foreign limited liability company if the domestication is permitted by the laws of the foreign jurisdiction. Regardless of whether the laws of the foreign jurisdiction require the adoption of a plan of domestication, the domestication shall be approved by the adoption by the domestic limited liability company of a plan of domestication in the manner provided in this subdivision. The laws of the foreign jurisdiction shall govern the effect of domesticating in that jurisdiction.’ RSA 304-C:205 through 304-C:210 is captioned ‘Domestications’ in the LLC Act’s own table of contents; the outbound filing under this route is styled ‘Articles of Charter Surrender’ (RSA 304-C:208), stating the LLC’s name, that the filing accompanies a domestication to a foreign jurisdiction, member approval, and the new jurisdiction of formation.
What the filing costs
Outbound, a New Hampshire LLC files Articles of Charter Surrender under RSA 304-C:208 with the NH Department of State, Corporation Division. RSA 304-C:191, II prices eight other document types by name: certificate of formation ((c), $100), certificate of amendment / certificate of merger / certificate of statutory conversion / restated certificate of formation ((d), $35), certificate of cancellation of a domestic LLC ((e), $35), annual report and reinstatement filings ((f)), certified copies ((g)), foreign LLC registration and its amendments ((h)-(i)), and secretary-of-state certificates ((j)). Articles of Charter Surrender is not the named document in any of those, and RSA 304-C:210, II confirms this filing’s fee is governed exclusively by “the fee, if any, required under RSA 304-C:191”, with no separate line item created anywhere else in the Act. By elimination that leaves subsection (k), the catch-all for “any… paper provided for by this act, for which no different fee is specifically prescribed”: $15. This is a statutory-elimination result, read directly from all nine lettered subsections. It is not a figure copied off a dedicated NH fee schedule naming “charter surrender” by name; sos.nh.gov’s own forms-and-fees page and the D-1A PDF form both still return HTTP 403 to automated fetches, so no schedule with that exact line item could be checked 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 New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire’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 New Hampshire 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.
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.
- New Hampshire: https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-205.htm. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03 for the statute text; the fee figure resolved this session’s adversarial pass to $15 by elimination across RSA 304-C:191’s nine lettered subsections.