Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Wyoming permits it, both directions, but Wyoming names the two directions differently: leaving is a ‘transfer’ under § 17-29-1011, arriving is a ‘domestication’ under §§ 17-29-1012 to -1013. Leaving requires two filings, one to the destination state and one to Wyoming, plus a year of continued Wyoming registered-agent coverage. The Wyoming-side filing fee for leaving is $60. This page covers the entity-law half only.
The statute, and why Wyoming gets miscounted
Section 17-29-1011(a) permits a Wyoming LLC, ‘if authorized by resolution duly adopted’ by its members ‘and by the laws of any other jurisdiction …, [to] apply to the proper officer of the other jurisdiction for a certificate of registration, and to the secretary of state of this state for a certificate of transfer,’ confirmed verbatim on re-fetch. The company ‘shall surrender its articles of organization under this chapter upon the effectiveness of the transfer,’ and once the destination jurisdiction issues its own certificate, the LLC ‘shall be continued as if it had been organized under the laws of the other jurisdiction.’ Subsection (g), also confirmed verbatim, lets the company represent to the destination jurisdiction’s officer that Wyoming law permits the transfer, i.e. Wyoming’s statute is written to satisfy a destination state’s own reciprocity requirement. Wyoming also requires the departing LLC to maintain a Wyoming registered agent for one year post-transfer and may impose creditor-protection conditions under subsection (b).
What the filing costs
Outbound, a Wyoming LLC applies to the destination jurisdiction for its own certificate of registration and separately files a certificate of transfer with the Wyoming Secretary of State. The Wyoming-side cost of that certificate of transfer is a flat $60, per § 17-29-1011(e)’s ‘special toll charge of sixty dollars ($60.00)’ and confirmed on Wyoming’s current official fee schedule under its ‘Amendment/Dissolution/Any Other Filing’ line. The $100 figure that appears in some summaries of Wyoming’s domestication fees is the inbound Articles of Domestication fee for an out-of-state LLC becoming Wyoming, a different filing under a different statute, and is not the outbound cost this page covers. The destination state’s own inbound filing fee is separate again and varies by state.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Wyoming 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 Wyoming’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 Wyoming 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.
- Wyoming: https://codes.findlaw.com/wy/title-17-corporations-partnerships-and-associations/wy-st-sect-17-29-1011/. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset.