Replacing stolen/lost licence

sitcom321 · 28 August 2015 at 11:19AM

my grandaughter had her bag stolen which contained her photo provisional drivers licence, she applied for it orgianally online and dvlc used her passport photo for her id card, her passport expired April this year so will she have to get new passport before she can get replacement licence?

BeenThroughItAll · 28 August 2015 at 12:40PM

sitcom321 wrote: »

my grandaughter had her bag stolen which contained her photo provisional drivers licence, she applied for it orgianally online and dvlc used her passport photo for her id card, her passport expired April this year so will she have to get new passport before she can get replacement licence?

In general terms, the answer must be no, otherwise how would anyone without a passport be able to hold a licence?

She will, however, not be able to do so online, unless the DVLA (DVLC hasn't existed for 25 years) are able to simply re-issue a copy of the licence she has had stolen using the previous details and image. I'm afraid I don't know if that's the case, as my only attempts to navigate the DVLA's licence-change-renewal system online resulted in epic failure because my licence number changed when my surname changed and despite that all being a long time ago, it confused the computer system.

ChumLee · 28 August 2015 at 12:52PM

How old was her pervious licence? The money saving way will be to provide a new photo so the replacements photo will run for 10 years.

sitcom321 · 28 August 2015 at 5:06PM

ChumLee wrote: »

How old was her pervious licence? The money saving way will be to provide a new photo so the replacements photo will run for 10 years.

She is only 17 only had the licence 6 months when her bag was stolen. Her passport ran out April I was hoping they would just send replacement

rich13348 · 28 August 2015 at 6:04PM

It would probably be prudent to get a new photo taken children's passports last for 5 years and her passport ran out in April making her 11 and a half in the photo if my information is correct. So get a new photo taken and then you will have to fill out a paper form from the post office (if you still have one). Also if you get a set of 4 photos then you can use the remaining ones to get her a new passport.