Driving licence photo's 10 year renewal

pompeyrich

clarabell13 wrote: »

I recently applied for a provisional licence for my daughter, but even if I consent to them using the passport photo as a likeness, they still want me to send in an up to date passport sized photo. If you don't, they cancel the application!

This may be their policy with younger people, if the passport photo was submitted at say 13 or 14, then the appearance of that person may, probably will, have changed by their late teens. So you could have a baby faced photo on an adult driving licence, valid until the person was 27.

reese

I need to update my address on my driving licence. I intended doing it online but it asks how long at current address and if less than 3 years to quote previous address. I’ve been at my current address for more than 3 years but had just forgotten to notify DVLA. If I put that I’ve been there for over 3 years will they penalise/fine me for not notifying them at the time?

iceblue24

my photocard licence expires in less than 3 weeks time and i am yet to receive any forms from dvla.

edit: it arrived this morning

westv

reese wrote: »

I need to update my address on my driving licence. I intended doing it online but it asks how long at current address and if less than 3 years to quote previous address. I’ve been at my current address for more than 3 years but had just forgotten to notify DVLA. If I put that I’ve been there for over 3 years will they penalise/fine me for not notifying them at the time?

I need to do that too. I assume that the previous address will be the previous address the licence was registered to not the previous one you lived at - which is irrelevant.

Ah! Perhaps not. It needs 3 years for verification purposes. I'm trying it now - inputted all the info and it just keeps tellingme that it can't find my info even though one of the addresses I put down is where the licence was last registered to. The number is the letter/number combo starting with your surname isn't it?

westv

All done. I just forgot to put my middle name down.

reese

Should I just put that I changed address within the last 3 years and then the address that is currently on the licence?

westv

All I did was put my addresses for the last 3 years and then a few pages on I clicked that one of them was where the licence was last registered to.

Retroguyuk

I've just had one of the renewal forms through in the post, but the expiry date for my photo is 11th May, so giving me less than a month's notice, let alone the 2 months that I've just read on here they're supposed to give you.

Although I can obviously send the form back to them before the expiry date, if it takes 15 days to get the photo renewed and sent back to me like the form says, I'm not going to have enough time to send it off to get it back in time. Will this be a problem with insurance or anything like that? I know the form says I'm still fine to drive legally without physically having my license (or presumably an updated photo), I don't want there to be any other issues.

Any advice would be appreciated.

slbhill

If you are moving house and need to update the address on your licence there is no charge - but it still expires at the original date.

Hint: don't waste your time with the online system to update your licence with the new address. It's an amazingly complicated process and you still have to post your old licence to them. Much easier to just fill in the relevant section of your licence and post it off (directions are given on the licence itself).

I recently moved house & sent my licence for update, then 4 or 5 weeks later I phoned to ask why I hadn't had it back. When they claimed they never received it I pointed out that my partner's (sent in the same envelope) was back within a week. To which (of course!) they told me I shouldn't have sent 2 in the same envelope, it "confuses the system" :rotfl:To be fair they did find it after I chased them, and I received the new one a few days later.

The moral of this story is:
1) Take a scan of your licence before sending it off so at least you have some record (this also gives you some ammunition if they remove categories from your new licence which is frighteningly common), and
2) Use recorded delivery when you post it - the extra cost is small compared to the potential hassle you could save.

buckster

I've just got my driving licence back after nearly 3 weeks and I look like a mug shot off of crimewatch . I think they are printing the photos in black & white when I think they where in colour last time