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2012 – NOVEMBER 2026
The system's last transformation took the transaction out of the branch altogether: since 2012, Indiana plates are made to order and mailed from Indianapolis, so the counter no longer hands a South Bend motorist the physical plate his grandfather carried home from Michigan Street; renewals run online at myBMV, by mail, and at self-service kiosks; and the branch that remains is a licensing and identity office more than a plate office. South Bend's branch crossed into that system at St. Joseph Street and completed the crossing at Ireland Road: the Bureau's current list styles the seat "South Bend BMV Branch + Kiosk," the kiosk standing with the branch as the Connect era reached the county seat — later than it reached the county's east side, where the Bureau opened its second Connect Center in the state at the Mishawaka branch on January 17, 2019.
The current state, dated to the build month — November 2026 — is this. The Bureau's branch record names one South Bend branch: 1139 East Ireland Road, operating status Active, telephone 888-692-6841, hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., closed Wednesday, with the BMV Connect kiosk at the branch. The county's other counters stand at pointer size here, their wholes their own: Mishawaka, 2544 Miracle Lane, full-time, with its 24-hour Connect Center — where the Tribune of April 30, 2026 reports a further satellite BMV location planned with the state as part of the Gurley Leep auto campus in that city, Mishawaka ground and Mishawaka's story; and Walkerton, on Roosevelt Road, the part-time agency persisting in the Bureau's systems, its course complete in its own build. The Bureau's current commissioner, named in its May 22, 2025 branch-closure release, is Kevin Garvey — the state frame's current holder, printed at pointer size; the current manager of the South Bend branch is not named in any public listing reached, and that absence is carried as a named gap rather than filled from lesser sources, per this build's depth standard. The Bureau's institutional history — its creation, its commissioners' full line, the patronage system's statutory course — is Indiana-leg research, told whole there; this section has carried one frame at most, and points up.