Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: yes: an LLC formed in another state can become a New Hampshire LLC and stay the same legal entity, keeping its EIN, formation date and contracts. New Hampshire’s statute calls the mechanism domestication, at RSA 304-C:205, I. The filing is Articles of Domestication with an attached certificate of formation, but no single confirmed dollar figure exists for that specific filing, so treat the fee as unsettled rather than guess it. New Hampshire’s version of the rule is conditioned on the departing state’s own law: the statute only lets the foreign LLC in if domestication is permitted by that LLC’s home-state law.
What New Hampshire’s statute actually says
RSA 304-C:205, I states that a foreign limited liability company may become a domestic limited liability company only if the domestication is permitted by the organic law of the foreign limited liability company, and that New Hampshire law then governs the effect of domesticating in the state. This is a reciprocity condition tied to the origin jurisdiction’s own law, not a one-sided New Hampshire grant. RSA 304-C:205 through 304-C:210 is captioned Domestications in the LLC Act’s own table of contents, so the vocabulary is explicit and does not require inference from a differently labeled conversion or merger article. RSA 304-C:207 requires the inbound filing, Articles of Domestication (Form D-1A), to have an attached certificate of formation for the resulting New Hampshire entity.
What the filing is and what it costs
Inbound moves file Articles of Domestication (Form D-1A) with an attached certificate of formation, filed with the New Hampshire Department of State, Corporation Division, under RSA 304-C:207.
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.
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 New Hampshire 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.
- New Hampshire: https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-205.htm. Statutory text, Read 2026-08-12 (statute-tier, official government source). Independently re-read on 2026-09-04 from gc.nh.gov, and the page text is word-for-word identical to the dataset’s quoted subsection I and II. Honest gap carried forward from the original build: the exact dollar filing fee for Articles of Domestication was not resolved because RSA 304-C:191’s itemized fee list has no line specifically naming articles of domestication or articles of charter surrender, and the NH Secretary of State’s forms/fee pages (sos.nh.gov) block outside access entirely; that fee-page block was not re-tested this session, so no filing fee is stated here rather than guessed at the plausible $100 or $115 figures the dataset flags as candidates but unconfirmed..