Change your name or address: Vehicle registration

Select a topic:

• Changing your address
• Changing your name
• Changing the business name on a company vehicle

Changing your address

To change your address on a vehicle title, you can:

• change your address online.
• OR
• visit your local vehicle licensing office.

Required address information

Washington residents are now required by law to have their primary residence street address on their vehicle’s registration record. You may also indicate an alternate mailing address.

You must provide your residence information when you change your address unless you meet one of the following exceptions:

• You are overseas military with an APO/FPO address.
• USPS mail delivery is not available at your primary residence street address.
• You are not a Washington resident but your vehicle must be registered in Washington state.
• You are on active duty military and your home of record is Washington state, but you are currently in another state or jurisdiction.

Businesses must also add the street address of their Washington principal place of business to the vehicles registered to their business.

Driver license address changes

You may also need to change your address on your driver license. Updating the address on your vehicle registration does not automatically change your address on your driver license.

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Changing your name

You must update your name on your vehicle title if your name changes due to marriage or any other reason. Changing your name on the title will also change your name on the registration.

Note: If there is a lien holder on the vehicle (for example, if you are paying off a loan on your vehicle), you must make arrangements to change your name on your title through the lien holder and not the Department of Licensing.

How to change your name on your vehicle title

• Visit your local vehicle licensing office. The licensing agent will help you through the process.
• OR
• Mail all of the items listed below to:
  
  Department of Licensing
  PO Box 9909
  Olympia, WA 98507-8500

What you’ll need to change your name by mail

To apply by mail for a title in your new name, you must send us:

• the current Washington title.
• a completed Name Change Affidavit.
• a completed Vehicle Certificate of Ownership (title) Application.
• a certified copy of any court order related to your name change.
• the title fee of $9.

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Changing the business name on a company vehicle

Note: If there is a lien holder on the vehicle (for example, if you are paying off a loan on your vehicle), you must make arrangements to change the name on your title through the lien holder and not the Department of Licensing.

How to change the business name on a company vehicle

• Take all of the items listed below to your local vehicle licensing office.
• OR
• Mail all of the items listed below to:
  
  Department of Licensing
  PO Box 9909
  Olympia, WA 98507-8500

What you’ll need

To change the business name on a company vehicle, you will need all of the following:

• Documentation from the Secretary of State’s Office showing you have changed the name of your company.
• A Declaration of Use Tax statement from the Department of Revenue.
• A completed Vehicle Certificate of Ownership Application.
• A current Washington title (Certificate of Ownership).
• The title fee of $9.

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