Amending Your Driver’s License or Identification Card

The highlighted topics below cover what may be amended on a driver's license or identification card.

When submitting documents for amending a driver's license or ID, please remember:

• The BMV will only accept original documents or certified copies from the issuing agency.
• The BMV may refuse any document that appears fraudulent, unreliable, altered, or expired.
• All documents must be in English or be presented with a verifiable accurate English translation.
• Your legal name and date of birth on documents presented to the BMV must match Social Security Administration records.
• Wait at least one business day after updating your information with the Social Security Administration before visiting a BMV branch.

Name Change

If your name changes, you must visit a BMV branch within 30 days to apply for an updated license or ID card. This process cannot be done online. Before going to the BMV, you must first update your name with the Social Security Administration. Wait at least one business day after completing that change before visiting the BMV.

Acceptable documents supporting a legal name change include, but are not limited to:

• Marriage license
• Divorce decree (must indicate previous name and new name, unless you are returning to your maiden name)
• Court order approving a change of legal name
• An original or certified copy of an amended birth certificate showing a change of name

Date of Birth Change

If your date of birth is wrong on your driver’s license or ID card, you must visit a BMV branch to correct it. If the mistake is on your birth certificate, contact the vital records office in the state or county where you were born.

Acceptable documents supporting the change in date of birth include:

• Original or certified copy of your birth certificate from a United States jurisdiction or a United States territory.
• Court order approving a change of date of birth.
• An original or certified copy of an amended birth certificate showing a change in date of birth.

Address Change

The BMV maintains two address for each customer:

Residential Address

A residential address is the address the BMV requires to validate your permanent place of residency in Indiana. You have to provide two approved documents to establish or update your residential address within 30 days of the address change. You must visit a BMV branch to update your residential address; this cannot be amended online.

View Acceptable Documents Proving Indiana Residency

Mailing Address

Your mailing address is a different address you can give the BMV to receive items like license plates, renewal notices, and other mail. You may update your mailing address online at any time by signing into your myBMV account. You may also update your mailing address at any BMV branch.

Gender Change

If you’ve changed your gender and have an Indiana learner’s permit, driver’s license, or ID card, you must visit a BMV branch to update your credential.

Acceptable documents supporting a change in gender to Male (M) or Female (F), include:

• A certified, amended birth certificate; or
• A Physician’s Statement of Gender Change – State Form 55617, completed by both you and your physician; or
• A physician’s statement signed and dated on letterhead that includes this language from 140 IAC 7-1.1-3:
  “<insert customer’s name> successfully underwent all treatment necessary to permanently change <insert customer’s name> gender from <insert prior gender> to <insert new gender>.”

Medical Alerts

You may add or remove certain medical alerts to your ID card or driver’s license at a BMV branch. Submission of medical alert information is voluntary. No documentation is required to add or remove medical alert information on a credential. The accuracy of the medical alert information provided is your responsibility. Medical alerts include:

*Only available for an ID card
**Requires completed Physician's Certificate of Medical Impairment State Form 50018 to be issued a driver's license

Photo Requirements for Amending a Transaction

Any change made to what is printed onto a Driver’s License/ID card requires capturing a new photo to be compliant with state and federal law.