Bringing a Canadian Car over to the USA

[Reba]

check with your insurance provider in Ontario before you leave, if they will cover you for any time after you move. If they have offices in California, then you can probably just transfer your policy.

As for registering and licensing the car in California, you will have to import it to the US (see above posts) and go to a California DMV in order to get the car licensed, as well as yourself. I believ California is one of the hold out states that will just take your Canadin driver's license and give you a California license without a road test. You may have to do the "written" test though. Google "California DMV" for relocation info.

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[Steven]

I think California tests everyone from anywhere, so at least they're consistent.

[shaul]

I understand that I need SSN to register Canadian car in California.

However, One car on my wife name (who will have SSN, she has L1 visa) and 2nd on mine (I won't have SSN for at least 90 days until i get L2)

[Steven]

If you can show you're exempt (or you've applied and you haven't got it yet) you don't need to, depends on the DMV office. One of my relatives had this exact problem, there on L-2 and hadn't gotten her SSN yet, the first DMV office wouldn't do it so she went to a second one and they would. Get a letter from the SSA office where you apply saying that you've applied and you should be okay.

[rachel62103]

I'm a Canadian in Nashville and was wondering the same thing about bringing my car to the states. My car is my own and has been paid off. Do the previous replies apply to my situation as well? Thanks!

[Steven]

The procedure is the same for everyone essentially, the main difference is how the State registration procedure works. Tennessee apparently will charge you sales tax regardless of the fact it is a personal effect.

[cscdn]

Hi,

I'm moving to the US on a TN visa and would like to import my Canadian car into the US. While there is a lot of information on the US vehicle import formalities (including the info in this thread), I have not found any information on Canadian export regulations. Is it because there are no required Canadian export formalities for cars? US seems to have car export formalities when importing a car into Canada, doesn't Canada require something similar in the opposite direction?

Thanks for any info.