+1 - I thought Quantity Surveyors were smarter than this.Mi Amigo wrote:I still don't see why my solution wouldn't work for you, i.e. follow the principle that wherever you are resident, that's where you should get a driving license issued. If you're no longer resident in the UK, why is it so important to you to have a UK driving license? A Singapore driving license (at least in my experience in several countres) is a perfectly good alternative. Is there some other reason that you feel you need a UK license, apart from renting / driving cars there?
Well, that's the first time I've heard that.martincymru wrote: " Not correct. Need photocard and paper; both to be non expired " .
martincymru wrote:extract from the link:-
" If you have a photocard driving licence [which I have and so do 2million other people ! ], you must renew your licence every 10 years - you’ll receive a reminder before your current licence ends. "
if dont renew = no licence !!
see https://www.gov.uk/change-photo-driving-licence
ScoobyDoes wrote:martincymru wrote:extract from the link:-
" If you have a photocard driving licence [which I have and so do 2million other people ! ], you must renew your licence every 10 years - you’ll receive a reminder before your current licence ends. "
if dont renew = no licence !!
see https://www.gov.uk/change-photo-driving-licence
That's the issue...... I've never had a photo ID licence, I've never been told to apply for one and I don't have the intent to get one. So long as you've never had one, at this moment there is no legal requirement to get one and 'convert' the paper one. Once you've got/had one, though, you are stuck in the cycle.
Consider you say 2m other people....... it's ONLY 2m other people, around 2/3 the current population of Wales.
With regards my taxes etc. the left hand doesn't yet know what the right hand is doing in the UK. I've not paid UK taxes in nearly 20yrs but, as I said, I've recently had mail telling me how much my pension would be at today's rates.
At this moment the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing in the UK at the moment. For example, eventhough DVLA can request information from other European countries with regards drivers, licence plates details etc. for issuing fines and tickets, they can't even be bothered to do that and that would bring in far more funds. I very much doubt they'll give a stuff about contacting HMRC to see if you even live in the UK since that's hardly the first thing to go through somebody's mind.
OSOD is right, they only will look for an address to send you the licence and any tickets.
martincymru wrote: Real point is, yes all ok if you live in UK but if you do not live in UK then you cannot renew your driving licence. There is no way round that unless you break the law and give a false UK residence address !
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