Drivers license on an IEC visa
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We are headed out to Vancouver next month on the IEC so will only be there a year or 2. We are not going to buy a car due to the cost of insurance, so we will probably want to rent a car every now and then throughout the year. But doesn't your british license become void after 6 months of being there? and need to be exchanged for a BC license?
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Just go to an insurance brokers takes 10 min and $30 to swap your UK licence to a BC but you must have held a full UK licence for two years or you will have to take a driving test.
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