I thought a foreign licence was only valid for the first six months of residency in a new country?
A friend of mine moved to The Netherlands and had been driving on an Irish licence for years. He happened to be asked for his licence at a police checkpoint one day on which he produced his Irish licence. They asked him how he’d been lining in the Netherlands and he said over three years. They informed him that he’d been driving illegally and with no insurance for over 2.5 years. They took his details and postponed prosecution for a few weeks, giving him time to get a valid license and insurance. He did this, brought it to the police station, so then shelved his prosecution.
Ignorance is no excuse!
I'm about to exchange my UK licence for an Irish one. I've been resident here for 4 years and using my UK licence without problem. NDLS rules here https://www.ndls.ie/holders-of-fore...-of-the-european-union-european-economic-area and I quote "If you have a driving licence issued by an EU/EEA member state you can drive in Ireland as long as your existing licence is valid. If you wish to exchange your driving licence for an equivalent Irish driving licence, you must do so within 10 years of your driving licence expiring." (My emphasis).
Paul
That was exactly why my colleague got done - he no longer had a valid UK address.
Sorry, I suspect we will continue to disagree about this, but I have an appointment at NDLS next week and will ask the question as to whether they consider my UK licence used here for 4 years as invalid. I'll let you know.
Paul
When I first got “the latest” driving licence when they first came out about fives years ago it was like that.Sound,thanks Paul, only dipping in and out of this thread, so didn't pick up on that.
A colleague reported a long line out the door of the Driving Licence centre in Cork today as she passed.
Bit is a pain for 100 years olds to have to renew their license... bloody Norwegians...the expiration date on the license is 100 years from my date of birth.
I know someone who did this a number of years ago. It was very easy to sort out. From memory, NDLS issued a letter to the effect that a valid UK license was held for x number of years. This was acceptable to the insurance company.I rang the NDLS at the end of 2018 and asked about exchanging my uk licence for an irish one. The bit that put me off was that, though I've held a uk licence for 21 years, my new irish licence would not reflect that in any way. This is karma... I exchanged my Irish licence for a uk one in 1998 when I lived there!
My concern was that when I went to renew my insurance and was asked "what type of licence do you hold and how long have you held it?" I would have to say "a full irish licence which I have had for 6 months". Today I rang the Insurance Ireland (the federation of insurance companies) and relayed my concern but was assured that if it happened that my premium was affected to get back to Insurance Ireland and they would sort it out - on the basis of my being an experienced driver having held a full uk licence for 21 yrs previous.
I havent exchanged it yet...
My concern was that when I went to renew my insurance and was asked "what type of licence do you hold and how long have you held it?"
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