Faxed copy of the Compliance Letter for Vehicle Import

[Peachey 10]

Sounds like you got a BG that didn't know what he was doing.

[trailmix 77]

Yes, he didn't know what he was doing.

What is actually supposed to happen is that you fill out a form (can't remember the form off the top of my head) - you sign it, he stamps it and gives you a copy. You keep the compliance letter and that form.

What you are going to have to do now is import it at the nearest POE - i'm not sure of the details on doing that, krikit knows, but I know others have done that as well.

[chochamu 0]

arghhhhh!! like there isn't anything else to worry about, LOL i wish they would have done it correctly at the POE in lewiston

[redmen99 1]

i did tell them i wanted to import it and they didn't do anything, i gave them the letter i had from Kia and everything and like i said they just walked around with it LOL one of the officers just told me that all they could do was just stamp it that they saw it and it was ok but nothing to do with the importation of it mind you now it was a Saturday and the "guy" who does it wasn't there but i figured someone would have looked it up to do it. By the sounds of it from the DMV they just do a check on the Vin and issue the tags but i don't know if thats the correct way for me to do it, Just trying to do things right.

When I called the auto tag place and told them we were importing a car from Canada and asked what we needed to register the car, they specifically said that they needed 2 copies of the paperwork from customs (or the 2 copies of the carbon form if they used it) along with the letter from the car manufacturer. I was told that in PA, they send all the paperwork to Harrisburg, and it may take up to 2 weeks for us to get the new tags for the car.. which is fine for us, that gives us more time to have it inspected.

[trailmix 77]

arghhhhh!! like there isn't anything else to worry about, LOL i wish they would have done it correctly at the POE in lewiston

Found the form, for what it's worth haha - at least you get a chance to look at it before you fill it out at the import (it's DOT form HS-7):

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import/hs799short.pdf