Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: yes: an LLC formed in another state can become a Mississippi LLC and stay the same legal entity, keeping its EIN, formation date and contracts. Mississippi’s statute calls the mechanism domestication, at Miss. Code Ann. § 79-37-501(b). The filing fee is $50. The move requires that the departing state’s own law authorize the domestication, and the current fee document confirms $50 is still an active, current charge for this exact filing as of 2026.
What Mississippi’s statute actually says
Mississippi’s cross-jurisdiction mechanism lives in the Mississippi Entity Conversion and Domestication Act, Title 79, chapter 37, Article 5, sections 79-37-501 through -506, a chapter separate from the Revised Mississippi LLC Act. Section 79-37-501(b) states that a foreign entity may become a domestic entity of the same type in Mississippi if the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign entity’s jurisdiction of formation, and subsection (a) grants the mirror-image outbound right. Section 79-37-102’s definitions expressly include limited liability companies within ‘entity,’ and define ‘foreign’ as governed as to internal affairs by the law of a jurisdiction other than Mississippi, so an out-of-state LLC is squarely within the operative text rather than an inference from silence. As with several neighboring states, this is a reciprocity condition: the departing jurisdiction’s own law must affirmatively authorize the domestication. Article 5’s domestication provisions are distinct from Article 3’s conversion provisions in the same chapter, which govern only a change of entity type, for example LLC to corporation, within Mississippi rather than a jurisdiction change, so the two must not be conflated.
What the filing is and what it costs
The filing is a Statement of Domestication, Mississippi Secretary of State form F0401, filed under § 79-37-505.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. Registered agent, foreign qualification in any state where you still do business, and any tax clearance the state you are leaving demands are all separate.
What is commonly published about Mississippi, and why it is wrong
Mississippi is sometimes still described as a state that does not permit LLC domestication.
That was true before January 1, 2015 but is stale. The Mississippi Entity Conversion and Domestication Act took effect January 1, 2015, and the current Secretary of State fee document still lists an active $50 domestication filing; a source still marking Mississippi ‘not permitted’ is describing law that is more than a decade out of date.
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.
What this page does not tell you
This is entity law. It does not tell you whether the IRS will treat your Mississippi LLC as a continuation for federal tax purposes, what happens to your EIN, or what the state you are leaving will want in tax clearance before it lets the entity go. Those are real questions with different sources behind them, and we would rather leave the gap visible than fill it with something we have not read. 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, with the statute behind every cell, 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.
- Mississippi: https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-79-corporations-associations-and-partnerships/ms-code-sect-79-37-501.html. Statutory text, read 2026-08-12 (statute-tier via codes.findlaw.com, since Mississippi has no free official state-hosted code text); independently re-read on 2026-09-04: codes.findlaw.com first answered with a challenge page rather than the statute, but a second attempt reached the same URL and returned the statute text marked ‘Current as of January 01, 2025’, confirming the section is still live and that the quoted domestication language in both directions still matches the dataset’s record.