new driving licence

It's all downhill now you've got a plastic licence: you'll have to fork out money to renew it every 10 years and send in a new photo (either to the DVLA or for your passport: the two agencies can use each other's photos).

I suppose it all hinges on you having not changed address: any change of address triggers an automatic update to the latest format.

Just received my over 70 Licence after waiting several months, it was my fault, because I didn't notice I had to apply on line and then send a printout of completed on line application by post to Swansea.

Anybody who started with a red book for a licence, or the beige one that preceded that, will probably be on three year renewals by now.

no idea

you do ?....

When I queried this anomaly the jobsworth said it was a random event for validation, not everyone is validated.

for goodness sake.....

every 3 years, after 70 surely ?.

The advantage of a plastic biometric driving licence is that you can do other government renewals online with a far quicker turnaround.

You will lose your right to drive a 7.5 tonner after 70 though unless you renew by post with medical documentation. This is a problem for some camper vans that are intentionally plated at just over 3.5 tonnes for various reasons. Neighbour who has done this with his said it meant ?cheaper insurance, or something like that

Not everyone has a printer too

Funnily enough, my renewed photocard license arrived today. It was submitted 1:30pm Tuesday.

It's hard to fault that level of service.

It can go either way - my middle son is 17 in September, so we applied for his provisional licence last week and it arrived this week (not valid for cars until his birthday). My eldest son has a medical condition, so evidence was needed - his first application was cancelled (by the DVLA) and the second took 9 months to be processed ... meaning that it was delayed so much that I could not give him lessons before he went away to university, so we are fitting in a few here and there and will have to pay for more organised lessons than we otherwise would have.

cool

not everybody has a smart phone but I keep getting links sent to my nokia 1100

they say about a week on my application form

Or every 3 years if you reach a certain age.

Yes but what does that have to do with the licence? Brian

everything

applied on line now hope my ten year old passport picture will do them.......do you think dvla will be annoyed if I don't return my old paper Lic ?......want to keep it for sentimental reasons...with its speeding endorsement in 1992