Car Registration and Driving License?

Question

Hi ,

I have an IOWA state driving license and, I have just moved to Dallas TX , I am planning to buy a used car here.

My question is .. will I have to change my license and get issued from Texas state or just change my address of IOWA license.
Will I be good to buy the used car and register it in Dallas if I have the same IOWA license with changed address.

Experts please suggests !!

thanks for reading and ur time.

I will be in the state of Texas for coming 6 months as I am on a project here.

Answer 1

If you have changed your legal residence to Texas, you will have to turn in your Iowa license and get a Texas drivers license. You then would register your car in Texas.

If you are a student who is just in Texas to go to school, and still are a legal resident of Iowa, you would keep your Iowa license and register the car to your legal residence in Iowa!

If you are in the armed forces, you can register the car either at your duty station(in this case Texas) or in your home state of record (Iowa)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If you are a resident of Iowa (that's where your permanent home is) buying a car in Texas, then you tell the Texas auto dealer that you are an out-of-state buyer (out of Texas), you take the auto purchase paperwork to the Iowa DMV to get it registered there, get Iowa license plates etc.

You get a driver's license in one state.
You move to another state.

You must get driver's license in the new state that you are living in. You need to do this within 1 month, in most states. The DMV for that state can tell you what the time limit is.

You move to some state, but it is temporary, for some job. Do you need to change your license? Well you are living there, but your official residence is the other state.

You need to be consistent in your official residence for all government agencies, except it is Ok to get snail mail and phone calls where you are living temporarily while you have the temporary job.

In other words, if you are temporarily in Texas in association with a temporary job while your residence is Iowa, then tell your employer what your address is in Iowa (could be a post office box) so they do your taxes based on being an Iowa resident, you file taxes based on Iowa resident, temporarily in Texas, you vote absentee ballot for Iowa.

I suggest you use some tax service like H+R Block if you lived part of a year in different states, let them figure out how much money needs to be paid to the different states in taxes.

Ask the Texas DMV about this ... they may still want you to get a Texas license, to use until you go back to Iowa.

When you permanently change your address, you need to send a change of address notification to all the places from where you get mail you want, such as magazine subscriptions, and to government agencies with which we have to do business.

If you are moving because of a job that will only last 6 months, planning to return to Iowa when it is done, then your change of address notification needs to let the people know that your plan is
1. This is a temporary move to Texas, in which I plan to return to Iowa after approx 6 months.
2. Because I do not want to be paying rent etc. in Iowa while I am in Texas, the address when I return to Iowa will probably be different than the one I had before.
3. To try to maintain my legal Iowa residency, I am using this post office box there as my official Iowa address, but arranging with the post office to forward my mail to where I currently am located, temporarily in Texas