U.S. Virgin Islands license plate: Temporary
Issued today 2026 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by United States Virgin Islands Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). One of 9 U.S. Virgin Islands license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 999, for exampleXJR 551(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 2026 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
- About this plate
- USVI TEMPORARY PLATES, and there are demonstrably at least TWO channels, dealer-issued and BMV-issued, plus a separate moving permit for the pre-inspection stage. They are not split into separate series because nothing distinguishes them in the evidence except the issuer, and minting three format-identical placeholders would be modelling noise.
Legal basis and sources
- the 'Dealer Temporary Tag Application Form' and 'Dealer Temporary Tag Issuance Form' https://bmv.vi.gov/forms/
- BMV's reference to vehicles carrying TEMPORARY plates 'that were issued by the BMV', evidence of a BMV-issued temporary channel distinct from the dealer one https://bmv.vi.gov/2023/03/03/2023-emancipation-license-plates/
- the moving-permit requirement for first-time registration; https://bmv.vi.gov/fees/ prices it at $20.00 https://bmv.vi.gov/vehicles/
This plate in your app
The series id is us-vi-temporary. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of U.S. Virgin Islands's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-vi \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-vi-temporary")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-vi/us-vi-temporary.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-vi/us-vi-temporary/template.svg
