Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: New Mexico does not let a New Mexico LLC convert into another state’s LLC while remaining the same legal entity. NMSA 1978 Chapter 53, Article 19 (the New Mexico Limited Liability Company Act) has no domestication section and no outbound-reaching conversion provision: its ‘conversion’ sections (§§ 53-19-60, 53-19-60.1) only change entity TYPE within New Mexico, not jurisdiction. What works instead is a merger: form a new LLC in the destination state and merge the New Mexico LLC into it under NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62, filing fee $100.
Why the answer is no
The word ‘domesticat’ (in any form: domestication, domesticate, domesticated) does not appear anywhere in the New Mexico LLC Act. Section 53-19-62.A authorizes a New Mexico LLC 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’: a genuine interstate exit route, but a merger into a resulting entity, not a continuation of the same entity’s own identity the way domestication works elsewhere. Sections 53-19-60 and 53-19-60.1, the Act’s only ‘conversion’ provisions, convert an LLC into a different entity TYPE (corporation, partnership, limited partnership); neither is captioned, defined, or operates as a jurisdiction-only domestication.
The route that does work
The substitute route is merger: form a new LLC in the destination state first, then merge the New Mexico LLC into it under NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62, with Articles of Merger filed with the New Mexico Secretary of State under § 53-19-63.C for a $100 fee. A second, non-domicile-changing option also exists: register the home-state LLC as a foreign LLC doing business in New Mexico (or vice versa) under § 53-19-47, which does not change the entity’s legal home at all. A third option is to simply dissolve in the state of origin and re-form as a new, legally unrelated New Mexico LLC. None of these three is equivalent to true domestication: merger in particular creates a surviving merged entity rather than continuing the original entity’s own EIN-continuity treatment and contract history, and readers should be told this plainly rather than being sold it as a like-for-like substitute.
What is commonly published about New Mexico
Formation-service marketing pages reviewed this session and previously (a Northwest Registered Agent page and a MyUSACorporation ‘domestication’ landing page) that sell New Mexico LLC filing services both correctly state that New Mexico has no domestication statute and point users to foreign qualification or dissolve-and-reform instead; no specific false claim asserting New Mexico permits domestication was found. This is one of the few states on this table where commercial marketing copy already agrees with the statutory reading, so no contradicted-claim callout is warranted beyond noting the search came up empty.
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, independently re-verified 2026-09-03 across two independent sources, both consistent with the dataset.