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The quick start guide to vehicle registration with visitor.us

Getting Started

Matt Copenhaver

Detailed documentation of visitor.us processes

Using visitor.us

Detailed steps on visitor.us' registration process for your first vehicle

Initial Vehicle Registration

Quickly and easily verify your identity with a photo of your passport and a selfie.

Step 1a: Verify your identity

Electronically sign the visitor.us vehicle registration lease, which the forms the presence required to register your vehicle in Montana.

Step 1b: Sign Lease

Montana requires multiple pieces of evidence of your Montana presence. We send mail to you at our address as required evidence.

Step 1c: Receive Mail (no action required from you)

What to do if you want to list multiple people as owners of your vehicle.

Step 1d: (Optional) Additional owners

Creating your Montana presence is the first step in the visitor.us vehicle registration process.

Step 1: Your Montana Presence

Step 2a: Vehicle details

After providing your vehicle's details, you can request your temporary registration immediately

You can skip to Step 3: Temporary Registration!

Sign your Montana vehicle registration application

Step 2b: Registration Application

Signing (or authorizing visitor.us to sign on your behalf) the buyer's section of your vehicle's prior title

Step 2c: Signature authorization

Optionally obtain charity license plates, personalized license plates, and/or permanent registration

Step 2d: Optional registration upgrades

Send your vehicle's prior title to visitor.us for registration

Step 2e: Your vehicle’s prior title

Provide your vehicle's details, assign its title, and send its assigned title to visitor.us for registration

Step 2: Your Vehicle

Obtain your printable 40-day Montana temp tag so you can hit the road while your registration is in process.

Step 3: Temporary Registration

How to obtain your printable 40-day Montana temp tag, so that you can hit the road while your registration is in process.

visitor.us obtains your license plates and registration document

Step 4a: License Plates and Registration

visitor.us arranged delivery of your license plates and registration document to a location that's convenient to you

Step 4b: License Plates and Registration by Mail

visitor.us obtains your license plates and registration document and arranges delivery to a location that's convenient to you

Step 4: License Plates and Registration

visitor.us obtains your vehicle's Montana Title

Step 5a: Montana Title

visitor.us arranges delivery of your Montana title document to a location that's convenient to you

Step 5b: Montana Title by mail

How to get your Montana title issued more quickly

Step 5c: (Optional) Expedite Montana title issuance

visitor.us obtains your Montana title document and arranges delivery to a location that's convenient to you

Step 5: Montana Title

A step-by-step guide to assigning your vehicle's prior title

Prior Title Assignment Guide

Understanding notarization requirements for vehicle-related documents

Notarization

How to authorize someone to sign a vehicle title or other important document when you can't physically do it yourself.

Authorizing someone else to sign on your behalf via a power of attorney (POA)

What types of signatures are acceptable on vehicle titles and other related documents?

Acceptable signatures

How we correct errors on a vehicle's prior title

Correcting errors on vehicle titles

Ensure that the seller's title is properly assigned to you to ensure a smooth registration

Prior Title Assignment

If you are buying a vehicle with a California title, use this guide to ensure that the title is properly assigned to you.

California vehicle title assignment guide

If you are buying a vehicle with a Texas title, use this guide to ensure that the title is properly assigned to you.

Texas vehicle title assignment guide

If you are buying a vehicle with a Montana title, use this guide to ensure that the title is properly assigned to you.

Montana vehicle title assignment guide

Guides for how to assign vehicle titles, specific to each state's title form

State-Specific Title Assignment Guides

How to renew your vehicle's registration when it is due.

Registration Renewal

Answers to frequently asked questions about vehicle registration renewal

Registration renewal frequently asked questions

Renewing your vehicle's registration annually

Ordering Montana registration for an additional vehicle

Additional vehicle registration

How to order registration for a vehicle(s) after your initial registration

What to do with your license plates after you sell your vehicle

How visitor.us forwards your tolls and tickets to you

Handling Tolls and Tickets for Your Vehicle

Purchasing and registering a vehicle on a visa or an ESTA

Visa requirements for purchasing and registering a vehicle

Learn the steps required to register a vehicle with non-US paperwork in the United States

Registering a Vehicle Without U.S. Paperwork: Importing Your Vehicle

Hidden fees aren’t fun for anybody. This article describes additional fees that visitor.us clients might face

Potential Additional Fees

Answers to miscellaneous questions about visitor.us

Various questions about using visitor.us

Create a custom design with text, images, and links

Get Started with visitor.us

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