I am moving back to Idaho at the end of October. My lifetime license will show non-resident when it is issued in January.

You have a couple of options to choose from. Have your 2015 nonresident lifetime license issued in December or January. After you have meet the six months residency requirements you may purchase resident tags at an IDFG regional office. You can wait to have your 2015 license issued until after you have meet the six months residency requirements and then have a resident lifetime license issued to you. You can have the 2015 nonresident lifetime license issued in December or January so that you can hunt or fish early in the year. Depending on the items you purchase early on you may be able to take the license into an IDFG regional office to have it changed over to a resident license (fees paid for other permits will not be refunded). If you purchase big game tags and harvest on them, we may not be able to change the license from a nonresident to a resident but you will still be able to purchase resident items on the nonresident license at an IDFG regional office after you have met the six months residency requirements