Bringing a vehicle registered in another state to medical school

[AM508]

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My situation is that I will be moving 1200 miles from where I currently live to attend medical school (New York to Missouri). I realize that if one is a full time student out-of-state they do not need to get a new driver's license in the state where one is attending school, however, my registration will be expiring during my first year and there will be no practical way to get my vehicle back to NY to get the inspection required by NY law to renew my registration. I would like some insight as to what folks who have moved far afield for school have done about their license and registration. Do most people change their state of residence when they start medical school and switch everything over to the new state as one will be spending the vast majority of time in the new state anyway? Forgive my lack of knowledge in this area as I have never encountered this sort of situation before because I did my undergraduate work in my state of residence. Thanks for any insight any of you can provide🙂.

 

[DoctorSynthesis]

My situation is that I will be moving 1200 miles from where I currently live to attend medical school (New York to Missouri). I realize that if one is a full time student out-of-state they do not need to get a new driver's license in the state where one is attending school, however, my registration will be expiring during my first year and there will be no practical way to get my vehicle back to NY to get the inspection required by NY law to renew my registration. I would like some insight as to what folks who have moved far afield for school have done about their license and registration. Do most people change their state of residence when they start medical school and switch everything over to the new state as one will be spending the vast majority of time in the new state anyway? Forgive my lack of knowledge in this area as I have never encountered this sort of situation before because I did my undergraduate work in my state of residence. Thanks for any insight any of you can provide🙂.

For undergrad I went to a different state and brought my car. Its fine to have your license and regiatration from one state and be in another. Just get your car inspected before you go.

 

[AM508]

Just get your car inspected before you go.

That would work for the first year, but the problem is its not going to be terribly feasible to get it back in subsequent years. With only having about a month off for summer, I don't want to tie up a big chunk of that time driving a vehicle that gets 16 mpg 2400 miles round trip🤔

 

[kkosp2451]

Get your inspection before you go, registration you can do online. You go on the DMV website, and fill out the form and pay the fee, and then they give you a printable registration until yours comes in the mail (just make sure to have it mailed to your Missouri address obviously). Thats what I did, and I'm a NY resident too.

 

[baxt1412]

Yeah, online registration and have the tags mailed to you unless NY has weird lawa

 

[CATSandKILOS]

Check in to see if NY can let you print out forms online, get your car inspected in the current state you're in, and mail it back to the NY DMV to get tags.

I live in VT and my car is licensed in DE. I had do what was described above this past August. I just called around to find a mechanic that does state inspections, mechanic filled out forms saying my car is okay, then I mailed it all bad to my dad in DE. He then sent it to DE's DMV and my tags were mailed back up.

 

[IntriguedStudent]

Does NY have weird laws on this or something? I went out of state for my undergrad and just had my registration mailed to me every year. Your best bet is just seeing if you can do what @Kate2 said. See if you can get it inspected in Missouri and fax the paperwork back to NY.

 

[AM508]

Does NY have weird laws on this or something? I went out of state for my undergrad and just had my registration mailed to me every year. Your best bet is just seeing if you can do what @Kate2 said. See if you can get it inspected in Missouri and fax the paperwork back to NY.

Well that is really the thing, NY law states that a vehicle needs to be inspected (both safety and emissions) by a NY certified inspection station every 12 months to renew the registration so I would think that precludes an out of state inspection being honored.

 

[wxman393]

Well that is really the thing, NY law states that a vehicle needs to be inspected (both safety and emissions) by a NY certified inspection station every 12 months to renew the registration so I would think that precludes an out of state inspection being honored.

I moved from New York to Alabama with the Army. All three of my vehicles registered in NY. I just transferred the registration from NY to AL when my inspection sticker came up for renewal. Probably the easiest thing to do is just register your vehicle in the same state as your med school. Not sure how much that costs but definitely better than driving back to NY for a lousy inspection sticker every year.

When I contacted the NYS DMV, they will not honor out-of-state inspections because the NYS inspectors upload their "results" into a NYS DMV database confirming that your vehicle is indeed inspected. Because of this, you can't even renew your NY tags on the DMV website because it will check to see if your inspection sticker is good (aka not expired).

While this Alabama, I was able to register all three of my vehicles for under $100. Just my thoughts.

 

[AM508]

... Not sure how much that costs but definitely better than driving back to NY for a lousy inspection sticker every year.

Yeah, it looks like it would run me about 60-80 dollars. Definitely a whole lot cheaper than 2400 miles at 16 mpg of gas per year, not to mention the wasted time!

 

[cliquesh]

I did not register my car in the state I went to medical school and I did not get a new drivers license. I drove my care home to get it inspected.

 

[cabinbuilder]

I moved from Alaska to PA for medical school. I was able to get an out of state student exemption for vehicle inspection and did that for 8 years all through school and residency. There is a form and the registrar from the school just verifies that you are a student there.

 

[DrBowtie]

Seems like people are going to a lot of extra time and expense to keep their registration OOS.

The question is why? Also I suspect taxes and fees are cheaper in MO than NY.

 

[AM508]

...Also I suspect taxes and fees are cheaper in MO than NY.

That is quite correct. After taking a look at the pros and cons of keeping the title/registration and license vs transferring it to MO. In my, case the only thing that seems to make sense is transferring things.

 

[cabinbuilder]

Seems like people are going to a lot of extra time and expense to keep their registration OOS.

The question is why? Also I suspect taxes and fees are cheaper in MO than NY.

The reason I did it was for the Alaska dividend, as long as I maintained my Alaska residency I got my check every year and so did my family so that's about $5000 extra money per year for 8 years. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.