Within 30 days after legally changing your name, you must personally go to an office of the Division to change the name on your license. Bring in your old driver's license and the marriage certificate or court document as evidence of the name change. The Division will issue you a new license for $1.15.
The Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV), in
cooperation with the Social Security Administration (SSA), will use Social
Security Number On-Line Verification (SSOLV) to verify Social Security numbers
by matching Delaware driver license records with the records of the SSA. For
this reason, your name change must be processed with the SSA prior to changing
the name on your Delaware driver license. After you change the information with
the SSA, please allow 72 hours before visiting DMV. The SSA needs this time to
fully update its database. If during the verification process, the SSA reports
to us that your name, date of birth and/or social security number does not match
with the information on the document as evidence of a name change, DMV may not
process the name change on your driver license or identification card.
Address Change
After changing your Delaware address, you have thirty (30) days to notify
both the Vehicle Registration and Driver's License Sections of the Division
of Motor Vehicles. Write to the Division of Motor Vehicles, Driver License
Section, P.O. Box 698, Dover, Delaware 19903. Give us the number of
your driver's license, your name as it appears on the license and your
new
address. We will change our records. To change your license document,
you must come into any of our facilities and we will replace your license
at no cost. (See the Vehicle
Equipment, Titles, Registration and Insurance Section
for changing the address on your vehicle registration.)
