A stand-in for a registration identification card you cannot find. The form says what it is for on its own face: use it when applying for title and transfer, or transfer of licence only, and you do not have a registration ID card to send in.
Written against VSD 76 (VSD 76.3, May 2026), issued under 625 ILCS 5/3-821.
Look for the registration identification card before you look for this form. The Secretary of State asks for the most recent card with a plate transfer, and the affirmation exists for the case where it is genuinely gone.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank VSD 76 from the ilsos.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual VSD 76, rendered from the PDF the Illinois Secretary of State publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.
Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below
The actual VSD 76. The block headed Previous Vehicle Information is the car the plates are coming off, which is the one you have just sold - not the car they are going onto. The second owner name and the second signature rule are washed out because this registration carries one name.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Date and Current License Plate No.
Today's date and the plate number.
Watch out: The plate you are keeping. This form travels with an application to put it on a different car.
2
You fill this in
Month and Year of Expiration
Read it off the sticker.
Watch out: Month and year, both. A registration that has already expired is a separate conversation with the facility, not something this form fixes.
3
You fill this in
Sticker No.
The number printed on the current registration sticker.
Watch out: If the sticker has gone as well as the card, say so at the counter rather than inventing a number - a replacement sticker is its own transaction.
4
You fill this in
Owner(s) Name and Address
Two rules for names, two for the address.
Watch out: As the registration has them. This is an affirmation about a record, so it has to match the record.
5
You fill this in
Previous Vehicle Information
Year, make, body style, VIN, and a cc box for a motorcycle - all describing the vehicle the plates are being transferred from.
Watch out: The car you sold. Writing in the new one is the single commonest way this form is filled in backwards.
6
You fill this in
Owner(s) Signature
Every owner on the registration signs. The affirmation above is that the information is true and correct.
Watch out: Then it goes in with the VSD 190 that actually moves the plate. On its own it does nothing at all.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Date and Current License Plate No.
Two boxes at the head.
Month and Year of Expiration
From the sticker, not from memory.
Sticker No.
The number printed on the registration sticker itself.
Owner(s) Name
Two rules, for two owners.
Address
Two more rules beneath them.
Previous Vehicle Information
Headed vehicle from which the plates are being transferred: year, make, body style, then VIN and a cc box for a motorcycle.
Owner(s) Signature
Two rules. Everyone on the registration signs.
What gets this one rejected
•Using it as a general affidavit. The line at the foot limits it: this form should be used when a person is making application for title and transfer or transfer only of license and does not have a Registration I.D. Card to send in.
•Guessing the sticker number. It is a specific field with a specific answer and it is printed on the sticker.
•Filling in the new vehicle here. The block is headed previous vehicle information - the car the plates are coming off.
•One signature where the registration carries two names.
•Sending it instead of the registration card when you do in fact have the card.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It only covers the card, not the plate. This affirms the registration details. It does not replace a lost plate or a lost sticker, which are separate replacement transactions with their own fees.
•The cc box is not a mistake. The last box on the vehicle row is marked cc-motorcycle. Illinois asks for engine displacement on a motorcycle transfer and leaves the box blank for everything else.
Every line here was read off VSD 76 (VSD 76.3, May 2026) itself —
the PDF is here — and off the Illinois Secretary of State pages.
This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ,
theirs governs.
