Minneapolis DVS
Minneapolis, MN
Official information
🌐 Languages
Minnesota's DVS Class D written knowledge test is offered as a computerized test in 7 languages — English, Spanish, Hmong, Karen, Vietnamese, Somali, and Russian — plus American Sign Language (ASL). For these languages the test itself is genuinely available in your language, not merely a study aid — a distinctive feature reflecting Minnesota's large Hmong, Karen, Somali, and Vietnamese refugee and immigrant communities. For any other language, you may bring your own interpreter who holds a valid Minnesota driver's license to read you the exam. Note, stated honestly: Chinese and Korean are not among the seven computerized-test languages, so a Chinese or Korean speaker would use study material as a study aid and take the official test in English or through a qualified interpreter. Since 2023, under Minnesota's Driver's License for All law, residents can obtain a license regardless of immigration status, and non-English knowledge testing (especially Spanish) has risen sharply. Testing is by appointment. [Sources: dps.mn.gov, checked 2026-07-15] — for this location, both Somali and Spanish are among the seven computerized-test languages, genuine testing languages for the area's large Somali and Latino communities; Chinese and Korean are not computerized-test languages and would require an interpreter.
Overview · sourced summary
Official [MN DVS, onlineservices.dps.mn.gov exam-station locator, 2026-07-15]: 2929 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407, in Hennepin County in the Phillips area near the Cedar-Riverside 'Little Mogadishu' neighborhood — home to one of the largest Somali communities in the United States — alongside the Latino Lake Street corridor and other East African communities. A Minnesota DVS driver exam station offering the Class D knowledge test (by appointment), plus road tests and licensing services.
No station-specific experience thread for this office was found. Statewide, Minnesotans have discussed the rise in Spanish-language testing since Driver's License for All and interpreter arrangements for the knowledge test. Language availability rests on the official DVS seven-language menu. [signal: thin per-office; state-level texture as of 2026-07-15]