My HP Laserjet Pro printer has a fax facility⌠problem is, I donât have a landline to connect to it
(but I think it can be set up to do so online - maybe not the best option!)
Sorry just to clarify, if I have an old paper licence not out of date, Iâm not allowed to exchange it - is this correct?
My concern is that it is currently held together by very old, now yellow sticky tape and Iâm not sure it will last too many more years. Obviously I wonât bother initially while they are getting everyone sorted out but do you think theyâll let me swap it before 2046???
Tbh Iâm not sure yellow sticky tape makes it âvalidâ in the most most âawkward bureaucrat doing things by the bookâ sense, damaged is damaged generally with official documents, so I would have thought youâd be able to make the swap sooner rather than later.
Really I honestly canât even remember the last time I even used it, I suspect when I went to get my Aussie licence back (they didnât want to take it - said to keep it to use when Iâm overseas ) so that was nearly 15 years ago!
I should add just in case it wasnât obvious Iâm not suggesting that youâll be carted off to prison tomorrow for driving all this time with an invalid license, just rather if an overzealous bureaucrat or police officer saw it they could decide it was technically damaged so would need to be updated in the same sense that very minor damage on a passport can, in theory, make it considered faulty and so not valid. I typed that while doing 10 other things and didnât want to put the fear of god in you
That sounds just like you might have left it in the inside pocket of a jacket that went through the washing machine @toryroo !
So it looks like if you have a UK address you might have to get a photocard. Otherwise itâs D888 from DVLA request to get a D737 for ANTS for you I guess
You canât get a photo licence if you are resident overseas. The swap thing is for hubbyâs (out of date!) licence. I never changed so I think if Iâve understood correctly I can just keep my âpaperâ licence.
No I got it when I got to the UK in 1997 so it is nearly 25 years old so just wear and tear of living in a wallet!
Personally Iâd just call the DVLA as it sounds as though indeed your licence has fallen apart / been damaged so as to be judged invalid by a gendarme if stopped.
DVLA are really friendly and will either process it then and there or more likely, as there seems to be a ÂŁ5 fee involved, will just give you the full web address to get the D888. The address to email it to should be on the form as the DVLA is quite well organised since it went semi-private
