You formed the LLC in Wyoming, Delaware or Nevada because someone told you to, and you live and work somewhere else. Now you pay two annual reports, two registered agents and two sets of deadlines for a company that does business in one state. Moving the LLC to the state you are in fixes that. The filing that does it is called domestication in some states, conversion in others, and a transfer in one. Picking the wrong word is how people conclude their state does not allow it.
Check both states before planning the move: does your current state allow your LLC to leave this way, and does the new state allow it to move in. We checked every one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. 42 accept the move and publish a filing for it. Three allow it in law and publish no filing. Seven do not allow it at all. The table below has every state, its own word for the filing, and the fee.
The short answer
Both states must allow the move. A Yes in this table describes the receiving state, not permission to leave your current state. Check the old state's rules before paying for or filing a move. 42 of the jurisdictions we checked accept the move. The seven that do not are Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, South Carolina and West Virginia.
- Both states allow the move and your new state says Yes You file in the new state, using that state's own form and that state's own word for it, and file the exit in the old state. Which goes first depends on the pair of states; read both states' instructions. The LLC continues as the same company. A move alone normally does not require a new EIN. Tell your bank about the move and check your contracts for notice or consent requirements.
- Your new state says No The route is a merger into a new LLC formed there, which is a different transaction with its own tax and contract consequences, or forming a new LLC and dissolving the old one. Neither is a domestication and this guide does not cover them.
- Your new state says In law only The statute permits it and the agency has no form or fee for it. Call the Secretary of State before you plan on it. Iowa, Louisiana and Montana are in this position as of 2026.
If both states allow the move and you want it done for you
Have CorpNet file the domestication ↗Why a service here and not on most of this site: this is two filings in two states, in an order that varies by pair of states, under two different names, with a plan your members (the LLC's owners) have to approve first. The state fees are in the table; the service fee buys someone to prepare both filings and check each state's requirements. If your new state's fee is small and you have one member, you can do it yourself with the steps below.
What domestication does
An LLC exists under the law of the state that formed it. Domestication is a filing that changes which state that is. After it, the company is a Texas LLC instead of a Wyoming LLC, normally with the same EIN and the same name unless the new state has already given it to someone else. Check with your bank and review your contracts for any updates, notices or consent the move requires. There is only ever one company. That is what separates domestication from forming a new LLC and closing the old one, which creates a second company and makes you move everything across.
Leaving a state this way does not dissolve the company there. It stops being an LLC of that state when the exit filing is accepted, and owes no separate cancellation; the evidence section below quotes California's statute on this. Meet the new state's agent or office rules: Minnesota domestic LLCs and Pennsylvania LLCs can use a qualifying office without a separate agent. Keep old-state coverage as required; Wyoming requires it for a year after transfer. If you keep doing business in the old state, foreign registration is still required. The costs section below includes that possibility.
One warning before the table. States do not agree on what to call this filing. Among the states with a route in law, 22 say conversion, 23 say domestication, and most use the other word for something else. Ask for the word in the table's third column. Why the word differs is explained after the steps.
Can an LLC move in, and what it costs, 50 states + DC, PR
| State | Accepts an LLC moving in | Its word for it | State filing | Filing + articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Yes | Conversion | $100 | $100 + articles* |
| Alaska | Yes | Domestication | $25 | $275 |
| Arizona | Yes | Domestication | $50 | $100 |
| Arkansas | Yes | Domestication | $300 | $350 |
| California | Yes | Conversion | $70 | $70 |
| Colorado | Yes | Conversion | $50 | $100 |
| Connecticut | Yes | Domestication | $100 | $220 |
| Delaware | Yes | Conversion | $220 | $330 |
| Florida | Yes | Conversion | $25 | $150 |
| Georgia | Yes | Conversion | $95 | $95 |
| Hawaii | Yes | Conversion | $100 | $150 |
| Idaho | Yes | Domestication | $30 | $130 |
| Illinois | Yes | Domestication | $100 | $250 |
| Indiana | Yes | Domestication | $30 | $30 + articles* |
| Iowa | In law only | Domestication | n/a | n/a |
| Kansas | Yes | Domestication | $75 | $165 |
| Kentucky | No | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Louisiana | In law only | Conversion | n/a | n/a |
| Maine | Yes | Conversion | $175 | $175 |
| Maryland | Yes | Conversion | $100 | $200 |
| Massachusetts | No | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Michigan | Yes | Conversion | $25 | $75 |
| Minnesota | Yes | Domestication | $80 | $235 |
| Mississippi | Yes | Domestication | $50 | $50 |
| Missouri | No | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Montana | In law only | Domestication | n/a | n/a |
| Nebraska | Yes | Domestication | $30 | $140 |
| Nevada | Yes | Conversion | $350 | $425 |
| New Hampshire | Yes | Domestication | $35 | $135 |
| New Jersey | Yes | Domestication | $75 | $75 |
| New Mexico | No | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| New York | No | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| North Carolina | Yes | Conversion | $125 | $125 |
| North Dakota | Yes | Domestication | $50 | $185 |
| Ohio | Yes | Conversion | $99 | $99 |
| Oklahoma | Yes | Conversion | $100 | $200 |
| Oregon | Yes | Conversion | $100 | $100 |
| Pennsylvania | Yes | Domestication | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Rhode Island | Yes | Conversion | $0 | $150 |
| South Carolina | No | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| South Dakota | Yes | Domestication | $150 | $150 + articles* |
| Tennessee | Yes | Conversion | $20 | $320 minimum** |
| Texas | Yes | Conversion | $300 | $600 |
| Utah | Yes | Domestication | $17 | $17 |
| Vermont | Yes | Domestication | $20 | $175 |
| Virginia | Yes | Domestication | $100 | $100 |
| Washington | Yes | Conversion | $10 | $190 |
| West Virginia | No | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Wisconsin | Yes | Conversion | $150 | $150 + articles* |
| Wyoming | Yes | Domestication | $100 | $100 |
| District of Columbia | Yes | Domestication | $220 | $319 |
| Puerto Rico | Yes | Conversion | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
Nevada also collects $150 for its initial list and $200 for its business licence: $775 in destination-state charges before your registered agent.
* Alabama, Indiana, South Dakota and Wisconsin require the new articles of organization to be attached to the filing and do not say whether that document is charged separately. The figure is the filing alone.
** Tennessee prices its articles of organization per member, $50 each with a $300 minimum and a $3,000 maximum, so the landed cost shown is the minimum and a multi-member LLC pays more.
Sourced from each state's own fee schedule, filing form or the fee section of its LLC act, and audited figure by figure against the agency. "In law only" means the statute permits the move and the agency publishes no filing or fee for it. The last column is the state filing plus the articles of organization the state requires with it; it excludes your registered agent, and any initial report or business licence the state charges every new LLC at formation. "Not confirmed" means two official sources disagree or the agency page could not be read; the state accepts the filing, we are not printing a number we cannot stand behind.
What it really costs
There are two filings, one in each state, and the receiving state's is usually the larger. On the 35 states where both parts of the receiving fee are confirmed, the filing plus the new articles of organization runs from $17 to $600, Utah at the bottom and Texas at the top. The table's last column, Filing + articles, is that figure: the new state's total, before your registered agent and before the old state's exit fee. Initial reports or business licences can add to it, as the Nevada example below shows.
The filing fee alone understates it in most states, and that is the trap in most published price lists. Alaska charges $25 for the statement of domestication and requires articles of organization with it; the new-state total is $275. Texas is $300 for the certificate of conversion and $600 in total. In a handful of states the state will not say whether the attached articles are charged separately, and the table marks those rather than guessing.
The exit filing is usually the smaller half and the one people forget to budget. Leaving Delaware is $220, Nevada $350, Wyoming $60. Then the cost nobody's table includes: if the company keeps doing business in the state it left, it owes that state a foreign registration on the way out the door. A company that moves from Delaware to Texas but keeps a Delaware office pays Delaware's foreign registration, $200, on top of the $220 it paid to leave. If you are moving because the old state was doing nothing for you, this does not apply. If you are moving for a better home state while the business stays put, it does, and it usually makes the move pointless.
Two states cost more than their rows show. Nevada's row is the conversion plus articles; add $150 for the initial list and $200 for the business licence, making $775 in destination-state charges before your registered agent. Tennessee's per-member pricing is in the note under the table.
How to do it
Common questions
Does domestication change my EIN? Normally no. The IRS says an LLC does not need a new EIN for a location change or an election to be taxed as a corporation or S corporation. Ending the old LLC and creating a new business is a different question. If you are also changing ownership or business structure, check the IRS rules for that specific change. Use Form 8822-B to report changes to your business address or responsible party.
Do I have to dissolve the LLC in the old state? No, and in most states you must not. The exit filing ends the company's existence as an LLC of that state without dissolving it; California's statute says the conversion filing has the effect of a cancellation and no separate one is required. Filing a dissolution instead would end the company, which is the opposite of what you want.
Which state do I file in first? It depends on the pair. Some old states want proof that the new state accepted the company; Arkansas and Louisiana let you file the exit first and send proof within thirty days. Read both states' instructions, and a service that does this regularly knows.
Can I domesticate a single-member LLC? Yes. The member approval in step 3 is one signature. Nothing about the filing depends on how many members there are, except Tennessee's per-member fee for the articles.
Why does my state's website say it does not allow domestication? Check which word it uses. In Delaware, Florida and Wisconsin the domestication section is only for companies formed outside the United States, and an LLC from another state uses the conversion section instead. In Vermont and the other states that use the words the other way round, the conversion section is for changing entity type and the domestication section takes an LLC that stays an LLC. The table's third column is the word your new state uses.
Does moving the LLC get rid of the old state's fees I have not paid? No. Delaware refuses the exit filing until the company is current, Texas requires a tax clearance or a statement that the company remains liable, and every state can pursue what was owed while the company was formed there. Bring the old state current first.
Bottom line
Check that your current state allows the LLC to leave and your new state allows it to enter. If both allow the move, learn which filing name each uses, budget the last column of the table plus the exit fee, and add the old state's foreign registration only if the business stays there. If you formed in Wyoming, Delaware or Nevada and the business has always been somewhere else, our Wyoming and Delaware LLC guide covers whether the move is worth making at all. The short answer at the top has the three cases in one place.
Two filings, two states, two different names for the same thing
CorpNet handles the domestication where both states allow the move; in its own words it will "take care of all the paperwork for you" and quotes the price by the pair of states involved. The state fees in the table are extra. The domestication service does not include a registered agent. Separately, arrange the agent or registered office your new state requires.
Have CorpNet file the domestication ↗The evidence behind the table
Use the overview above to plan the move, then follow both states' current filing instructions. The two sections below are the statute reading behind the table, for anyone who wants to check it or who has been told by a website that their state does not allow this.
Why the same word means the opposite thing in different statesDelaware, Vermont and Wyoming, and why published counts disagree
Use the filing name your state uses, even if another state calls the same move something else. This is the finding that explains why every published list of "states that allow domestication" gives a different number. Among the jurisdictions with a route in law, 22 call an LLC moving in from another state a conversion and 23 call it a domestication. That alone would only be a vocabulary problem. The real problem is that most states use both words, for different transactions, and they do not agree on which is which.
In one group of states, led by Delaware, "domestication" is the section for companies formed outside the United States, and an LLC from another state uses "conversion." Delaware's own definition puts it in one sentence: a non-United States entity means a foreign limited liability company "other than 1 formed under the laws of a state." Search the Delaware code for domestication, land on that section, and you will conclude a Texas LLC cannot domesticate into Delaware. It can. It just files a certificate of conversion. Florida, Wisconsin and Puerto Rico work the same way.
In a second group, "conversion" means changing what kind of entity you are, an LLC becoming a corporation, and "domestication" means changing which state you are in. Alaska, Idaho, Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Utah and Minnesota all read this way. Vermont's conversion section goes out of its way to exclude out-of-state LLCs, in so many words, and sends them to the domestication section instead. Read only the conversion section and Vermont looks closed. It is open.
Wyoming uses a third word. Its Secretary of State treats both continuance and domestication as filings for companies coming in, so an LLC leaving Wyoming files an application for a certificate of transfer. A search for either of the usual words finds nothing on the way out.
So a publisher who counts only states with a domestication statute lands near 23. One who counts any statutory route lands near 45. Both are counting honestly. They are counting different things, and neither count tells you whether your state is on the list. The table does.
The fear owners have is that leaving a state means dissolving the company there. It does not. California's statute says so in terms.
Filing the certificate of conversion "shall have the effect of the filing of a certificate of cancellation" by the converting company.
Cal. Corp. Code section 17710.06(d)The company that filed it owes no separate cancellation.
Why seven states say No, and three are in law onlyBoth states' rules, and what each closed statute says
Both states must allow your move. An inbound route in the table does not establish that your current state lets the LLC leave. For example, Virginia expressly requires authorization under the LLC's original state's law. Check the outbound rules where the LLC was formed as well as the inbound rules where it is going. Puerto Rico illustrates why direction matters: it accepts an LLC moving in but does not provide the reverse route.
The seven that do not accept an LLC moving in are Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, South Carolina and West Virginia. All seven have a conversion statute that names which entities may use it, and an out-of-state LLC is not on any of the lists. New York and West Virginia admit only partnerships. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri and New Mexico admit more, and still not a foreign LLC; New Mexico will convert a foreign corporation into a New Mexico LLC and will not do the same for a foreign LLC. Massachusetts is the clearest case that this is deliberate: its merger section defines the eligible entities and adds "a foreign limited liability company" by name, and its conversion section, defining the same phrase, leaves it out.
South Carolina deserves a paragraph rather than a row. Its LLC act has no domestication section and its conversion section admits only partnerships; the domestication chapter in its code is for corporations. Bills to give LLCs a route have been introduced and have died in every legislative session since at least 2015. Its closed status is a policy the legislature keeps declining to change, not an oversight waiting for a drafter.
Iowa, Louisiana and Montana sit in between. Their statutes permit the move and their agencies publish no form and no fee for it. Montana's legislature created the route in 2025 and left the fee to a Secretary of State rule that has not been updated; its online portal offers the filing to corporations and not to LLCs. For a reader, "in law only" means one phone call before any plan.
Related reading: operating a Delaware LLC in another state, what foreign qualification is for the company that stays where it was formed, and what each state charges when a company operates there without registering.
Sources, research & corrections
Sources: the LLC statute of each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and each Secretary of State's fee schedule and filing form; the fee schedules and forms were read on the agency's own site. Every fee below was audited figure by figure in 2026 against the agency's fee schedule, its official form or the statute. Where two official documents disagree, the table says so instead of picking one.