Nd licensing residency — North Dakota Permit Test

For driver licensing, North Dakota treats a person as a resident after living in the state for 90 consecutive days (nonresident students, tourists and nonresident military members excepted).

Someone who has settled in the state is driving its roads every day, so the state wants them on its own license and record.

Any person other than a nonresident student, a tourist, or a nonresident member of the Armed Forces who has lived in this state for 90 consecutive days, shall be deemed a resident of North Dakota for the purpose of driver licensing.

After you become a North Dakota resident, you may drive a Class D or M vehicle on another state's license for 60 days; then you must take the tests for a North Dakota license.

A short grace period lets a new resident keep driving to work while arranging the tests, without staying on an old state's license for good.

You may operate a Class D or M vehicle with an operator’s license from another state for a period of 60 days after you become a resident of North Dakota.

After living in North Dakota for how many consecutive days is a person treated as a resident for driver licensing?

90 days. Someone who has settled in the state is driving its roads every day, so the state wants them on its own license and record. North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual, p.2: “Any person other than a nonresident student, a tourist, or a nonresident member of the Armed Forces who has lived in this state for 90 consecutive days, shall be deemed a resident of North Dakota for the purpose of driver licensing.”