How to fill out New Mexico MVD-10008

The shortest affidavit in the New Mexico set: one sworn sentence that two names - on two lines, joined by 'and' - are in fact one and the same person, business or company. It exists for the title printed with a full middle name against a licence that abbreviates it, the maiden name against the married one, the trading name against the registered company - any case where the division's rule against name discrepancies would otherwise stop a transfer over a person who was never actually two people.

Top of the blank New Mexico MVD-10008, Affidavit of One and the Same, as the agency publishes it

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Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank MVD-10008 from the realfile.tax.newmexico.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our MVD-10008 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Written against MVD-10008 (Rev 10/14), issued under Vehicle Procedures Manual, Chapter 5 Section A (Prescreen Documents). The division's prescreen treats a discrepancy in the names of sellers or purchasers as grounds to reject the document outright, with this affidavit - sometimes alongside manager approval - as the accepted cure. Bring it sworn and ready if you know your title spells you differently than your licence does; discovering the mismatch at the counter costs the buyer the trip.

Last updated August 22, 2026.

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual MVD-10008, rendered from the PDF the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, Motor Vehicle Division 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

New Mexico form MVD-10008, Affidavit of One and the Same, filled in: Ysidro Tomas Maes printed as the person making the affidavit, the two name lines reading Ysidro Tomas Maes and Ysidro T. Maes, the signature and date completed, and the notary acknowledgement block filled in with commission expiry and seal space. — A title printed with the full middle name, a licence carrying the initial: the whole repair is two lines and a notary. The sentence's printed ending - person, business or company - is why the same half page serves a sole trader's van.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Print the name making the affidavit
You, in the fullest form you actually use - this is the identity the two variants both point at.
Watch out: Use the version on your identification here, since that is the document the notary will check you against.
2
You fill this in
The two name lines
One spelling per line: the title's version and the licence's version, copied character for character from each document.
Watch out: Copy, do not remember. A third spelling that matches neither document makes the problem worse, and the clerk is comparing all of them.
3
You fill this in
Sign and date before the notary
The signature goes on in the notary's presence; the acknowledgement, commission expiry and seal complete the page.
Watch out: The opening words are 'under penalty of perjury' - in New Mexico's motor-vehicle context that is a fourth degree felony, which is a lot of weight for a middle initial, so make sure both names really are you.
4
You fill this in
File it with the transfer
The affidavit rides with the title packet, answering the mismatch before it is asked.
Watch out: Keep a copy for the next transaction - if the title is not being reissued in the corrected name now, the same mismatch will greet the next clerk too.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
I, (print name of person making affidavit)	Whoever the two names both belong to - the one human or entity behind the mismatch.
let it be known that ______ and ______	The two spellings, one per line: the name as the title prints it, and the name as the identification prints it.
are in fact one and the same person, business or company	The printed conclusion of the sentence - the form covers people and entities in the same breath.
Signature, Date	Under the penalty-of-perjury recital the sentence opens with.
Notary Public Seal block	State of New Mexico, county, the acknowledgement, the notarial official's signature, commission expiry and seal space - this affidavit is notarized.

What gets this one rejected

•Unnotarized. Unlike the sale documents, this affidavit carries a full acknowledgement block, and it is not optional.
•Two names that belong to two people. The affidavit reconciles spellings of one identity - it cannot merge a parent and a child who share a name, and using it that way is the perjury the opening clause names.
•A third spelling left unexplained. If the title, the licence and the signature each differ, the affidavit should name the pair the clerk is actually comparing - or two affidavits should.
•Filed to dodge a real name change. Marriage, divorce and court-ordered changes are proven with the licence, decree or certificate under the division's name-change requirements - this form covers variation, not transformation.
•Sworn by someone else on your behalf. The person making the affidavit is the person the names belong to; an agent needs a power of attorney to swear anything for you.
•Written after the counter rejected the packet, in a hurry, with a new mismatch. Copy both spellings character for character from the documents themselves - a third variant makes the problem worse.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•It also serves businesses. The printed sentence ends 'person, business or company' - a van titled to a trading name and sold by the LLC behind it is this affidavit's corporate case.
•Prevention is spelled identically. Sign new documents the way the title spells you, and the affidavit never becomes necessary. It repairs history; it does not license future inconsistency.

Every line here was read off MVD-10008 (Rev 10/14) itself — the PDF is here — and off the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, Motor Vehicle Division pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.

Forms that go with this one

Name on the title not matching your license? Our Farmington page gives the state MVD field office on East Main Street, and notes there is none in Aztec or Bloomfield.

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How to fill out New Mexico MVD-10008

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Print the name making the affidavit

The two name lines

Sign and date before the notary

File it with the transfer

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

Forms that go with this one

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