Lost driving license - help!

DazzaMc

I've lost my paper counterpart to my driving license and need it for a job I've applied for so I need to pay to replace it but it's now asking for my address history for the past 3 years - I haven't updated it at all and have moved quite a few times. I'm now at uni but I don't go home in the holidays so I don't know whether to leave it as my parent's address or not? I moved out before uni by the way as well...

Lum

The address history that you give needs to match what the DVLA will have on their records.

If the DVLA think that you have lived at your parent's house for the last 3 years, and currently still live there, then that is what you put on the form for your address history.

You can also notify them of your "new" address (i.e. your current address) on the same form, and then the replacement will be sent to that address. Probably best not to let on about all your other addresses. The DVLA will then process it as if you had just moved house and have gone to update your licence only to find half of it missing.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/motoring/driverlicensing/needaneworupdatedlicence/dg_4022088

Please be more careful about keeping your address up to date in future as it is an offence not to do so, though as you can presumably still be contacted at your parent's address, you are probably ok.

DaveF327

All this worry and "second guessing" what people want to hear would all be avoided if people simply update their address details as soon as they change address as required by law.

It's free of charge after all.