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V5/license at 2 addresses while resident at a 3rd, must give address for fine - help!
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A friend of mine has phoned me in a panic because she is worried that she will be fined by the DVLA for not notifying them of a change in her permanent address.
She used to live in her own flat in one city, which she has been renting out for about a year, because she had to move away for work. That's the address on her driving license. She was living with her parents while looking for accommodation near the new workplace, and her car is registered at her parents' address because that's where she was when she bought it. She has since found a rental flat, where she has been living for 18 months but on a six-monthly renewable lease; she hadn't considered it permanent so hadn't informed the DVLA.
She has just got a fixed penalty notice for speeding and has to send a cheque and her driving license, and give an address for them to mail her license back to her.
She is scared of putting the rental address where she's living because it's different from the one on her license - she's worried about the fine of up to £1,000 that the DVLA demand if you don't immediately tell them of a change in permanent address. She isn't sure whether they might regard the address where she's living in a rental as her permanent address. She's worried about putting her parents' address down because it's not the same as on her driving license.
She doesn't want to put the address of her old flat on the form because if her license is mailed there, someone might just throw it away.
What should she do? Is it too late for her to phone the DVLA and ask for advice on what should be her permanent address and get them to change it, if necessary?
She used to live in her own flat in one city, which she has been renting out for about a year, because she had to move away for work. That's the address on her driving license. She was living with her parents while looking for accommodation near the new workplace, and her car is registered at her parents' address because that's where she was when she bought it. She has since found a rental flat, where she has been living for 18 months but on a six-monthly renewable lease; she hadn't considered it permanent so hadn't informed the DVLA.
She has just got a fixed penalty notice for speeding and has to send a cheque and her driving license, and give an address for them to mail her license back to her.
She is scared of putting the rental address where she's living because it's different from the one on her license - she's worried about the fine of up to £1,000 that the DVLA demand if you don't immediately tell them of a change in permanent address. She isn't sure whether they might regard the address where she's living in a rental as her permanent address. She's worried about putting her parents' address down because it's not the same as on her driving license.
She doesn't want to put the address of her old flat on the form because if her license is mailed there, someone might just throw it away.
What should she do? Is it too late for her to phone the DVLA and ask for advice on what should be her permanent address and get them to change it, if necessary?
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Use her current address and fill in the section on the back of the counterpart for the change of address.By doung that it will mean the licence will come back to her current address with no questions asked.
It was ok for her to use her parents address while she had no permanent address but now she has been in her flat for 18 months that is regarded as permanent. Send off the V5 for the car as well.
Tell her not to contact DVLA to discuss this."You should know not to believe everything in media & polls by now !"
John539 2-12-14 Post 150300 -
Use her current address and fill in the section on the back of the counterpart for the change of address.By doung that it will mean the licence will come back to her current address with no questions asked.
It was ok for her to use her parents address while she had no permanent address but now she has been in her flat for 18 months that is regarded as permanent. Send off the V5 for the car as well.
Tell her not to contact DVLA to discuss this.
Thanks, Trebor - sounds like a good plan.0
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