Indiana BMV Outlines Goals of Lafayette Branch Relocation Plan

Officials with the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, or BMV, have announced that the agency's Lafayette branch will move to a new location in the same strip mall as the town's current office. The branch's new address will be 2200 Elmwood Avenue, Suite A6. The current BMV branch will close on December 17, and the agency will begin serving customers at the new office on December 20. The new Lafayette branch will maintain the same office schedule as the old branch. December 17 is also the final day for the BMV's West Lafayette branch, which the agency has no plans to relocate in the immediate future.

Joe Hoage, who heads the BMV, says that the new Lafayette location will be better suited to help customers meet their needs than the current office. The new branch has twice as many testing stations as the former office. Additionally, customers will be able to complete their business more quickly with seven more customer service stations and three BMV Connect kiosks. Hoage adds that the BMV has worked closely with officials at nearby Purdue University and State Senator Spencer Deery to ensure that the agency is efficiently serving community members who travel to Indiana for research and academics. Hoage says that special attention is being paid to helping members of the Purdue community who hail from foreign countries.

Hoage says that among the elements in the BMV’s multi-prong plan to assist better foreign nationals at Purdue University are special training for agency associates, a mobile branch to serve the university directly on the college's campus, and a new kiosk in West Lafayette. Senator Deery adds that while closing a branch is unfortunate, he has been assured that the BMV’s new plan will best serve the needs of members of the Lafayette community and the wider Tippecanoe County area. Nevertheless, Deery encourages customers of the BMV to make their opinions known to BMV management.