Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Virginia does permit it, in both directions, under Va. Code § 13.1-1075(B): the statute uses the word ‘domestication’ itself, so there’s no naming trap here. The outbound Articles of Domestication filing fee is $25. This page covers the entity-law half only.
What Virginia’s statute actually says
Va. Code § 13.1-1075(B) provides: ‘A domestic limited liability company not required by law to be a domestic limited liability company may become a foreign limited liability company if the jurisdiction in which the limited liability company intends to domesticate allows for the domestication … The laws of the jurisdiction in which the limited liability company domesticates shall govern the effect of domesticating in that jurisdiction.’ The condition runs to the destination jurisdiction’s law, mirroring the origin-state reciprocity condition on the inbound side in subsection (A). The documented error is citation drift: formation-service pages and stale code mirrors still point researchers to §13.1-1010.1 and §13.1-1010.3, both repealed effective July 1, 2016 (Acts 2016, c. 288). The current, correct law is Article 14, §§13.1-1074 to -1080.
What the filing costs
For an outbound move, a Virginia LLC becoming a foreign LLC files Articles of Domestication (State Corporation Commission form LLC1078) with the Virginia SCC. The outbound filing fee is $25, distinct from the $100 fee the inbound direction (form LLC1077) pays, which also requires an accompanying Virginia Articles of Organization.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Virginia 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 Virginia’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 Virginia 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 Virginia, and why it is wrong
Formation-service and mirror sites, along with stale copies of the Code, still cite Va. Code §§ 13.1-1010.1 and 13.1-1010.3 as Virginia’s LLC domestication statute.
Both sections are marked ‘Repealed’ on Virginia’s own official code site (superseded by Acts 2016, c. 288, effective July 1, 2016), and the current governing law is Article 14, §§13.1-1074 to -1080, not the old numbering.
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 Delaware page. 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.
- Virginia: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1075/. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset: subsections (A) and (B) confirmed verbatim on law.lis.virginia.gov, whose page displayed a live current-through date stamp of ‘9/3/2026’.