Rules to Exchange to
British Driving Licence
The following conditions must be met before a licence can be
granted in exchange for a GB one:
You must be normally resident in GB and
have a permanent address here in the UK.
If you are a community driving licence
holder applying for a British test at the same time as exchanging
your licence and you have moved to GB having recently been
permanently resident in another state of the EC or EEA, you must
have been normally resident in GB for 185 days in the 12 months
prior to your application for a full driving licence.

Licences from the designated countries
must be current at the time the application for exchange is received
at DVLA: licences from the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands are
acceptable for exchange if issued after 01/04/91.Those issued in any
EC or EEA country may be valid for exchange even if they have
expired
You must surrender your foreign licence
which will be returned to the issuing authority.
International driving permits are not
exchangeable
Test pass certificates are not
exchangeable except for those issued in Northern Ireland or
Gibraltar when the test was passed within two years of the date of
the licence application
Japanese licences must be accompanied by
an official translation, available for a fee from the Consulate
General of Japan at 101-104 Piccadilly, London W1J 7JT or 2 Melville
Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 7HW
Republic of Korea licences must be
accompanied by an official translation from the Embassy of the
Republic of Korea at 60 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
Motocycle licences from the Republic of
Korea and Faroe Islands are not exchangeable
Applicants will not be considered 'normally resident' for the
purposes of a driving licence application if they:
Do not have leave to remain in the UK
Are in the UK
country on a temporary basis without leave to remain either while
awaiting a decision on an application to stay in the UK or following
a decision refusing such an application
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