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    Moving Out of State

    Overview

    Please contact the DMV in the state you will be moving to for information pertaining to registering your vehicle and transferring your driver's license.

     
    After you have a new license plate from the state you are moving to, please return your PA license plate to:

    Bureau of Motor Vehicles
    Return Tag Unit
    P.O. Box 68597
    Harrisburg, PA 17106-8597
     
    Once your plate has been received, it will be marked as a "dead tag." Returning your PA license plate to PennDOT, will help protect you from someone using your plate fraudulently.
     
    You can request residency exemption to keep your PA license by applying for an out-of-state exemption. Customers moving out of state are not eligible to record their change of address online.
     
    To record a change of address on your vehicle registration information, please fill out Form MV-8, "Self Certification  for Proof of Residency" and mail it to the address indicated on the form.
     

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