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Update re driving on UK licence

Old Jun 26th 2021, 12:46 pm
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Just got this email update from gov.uk:Weekly update from GOV.​UK for:

Living in Spain

Living in Spain

Page summary:
Official information for UK nationals living in or moving to Spain, including guidance on residency, healthcare and passports.

Change made:
Driving section: the deadline has been extended so you can now use your UK licence to drive in Spain until 31 October 2021, if you were resident in Spain before January 2021.

Time updated:
1:14pm, 23 June 2021

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Old Jun 26th 2021, 3:38 pm
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I'll take the Spanish governments publications over the British Embassy every time.

https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.ph...Y5AiJojNQr4oTQ

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Old Jun 26th 2021, 3:40 pm
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That still means new arrivals will have 6 months before they are required to go thru Spanish driving school and pass all the tests in Spanish.
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Old Jun 26th 2021, 3:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Notdunroamin
I'll take the Spanish governments publications over the British Embassy every time.

https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.ph...Y5AiJojNQr4oTQ

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The UK government page has a link direct to the official Spanish DGT site which also shows the 31 October date.
https://sede.dgt.gob.es/es/permisos-...?Reino%20Unido
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Old Jun 26th 2021, 4:29 pm
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I was hoping that guy who who posted a month or so back about losing his business without his licence would read this and see that he has some breathing space.
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Originally Posted by dreamer55
I was hoping that guy who who posted a month or so back about losing his business without his licence would read this and see that he has some breathing space.
Wouldn't have helped as I don't think he registered with the DGT before 31st Dec 2020.

The extension is only there to help the DGT cope with the amount of people who registered and now can't get appointments (just like the TIE backlog for new applicants)

I still know a couple of people who did nothing about and are now panicking (one of them has been here 10 years and only did his residence in January) Still have his UK drivers licence but seems to think the IDP he got last time he was in the Uk (4 years ago) covers him.
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Exact figures are hard to come by but I've seen it suggested that there could be many thousands in Spain who have still done nothing.

If an IDP were required in Spain, which it isn't, it would be the 1949 which has a life of just 12 months from date of issue which will be clearly written on it so it sounds like your man may be illiterate as well as stupid!

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The UK government page has a link direct to the official Spanish DGT site which also shows the 31 October date.
Maybe so but it also talks about using a DVLA 'letter of entitlement' to exchange a lost, stolen, or expired UK licence for a Spanish one, oh that it were that easy!

British Embassy webinars can be woolly affairs often littered with, I think, I believe, it may, it should etc. rather than cast iron info.

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Old Jun 26th 2021, 8:19 pm
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I thought this forum was to provide support to other expats? Calling people "stupid" or "illiterate" is helpful to no-one. Please, please think twice before posting aggresive responses. Life's hard enough as it is.
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I referred to anonymous and unknown 3rd party as 'illiterate as well as stupid' and given what was posted about him, and the position it's put him in, I see no reason to apologise for it.

Some people do not deserve support!
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Maybe so but it also talks about using a DVLA 'letter of entitlement' to exchange a lost, stolen, or expired UK licence for a Spanish one, oh that it were that easy!

British Embassy webinars can be woolly affairs often littered with, I think, I believe, it may, it should etc. rather than cast iron info.
That is a different matter and not why I posted my original post and link. The DGT is an official Spanish Department. In your first reply you cast doubt on the 31 October date mentioned as you preferred to take information from official Spanish links. So it would seem the 31 October date is agreed by both UK and Spain.

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Default Re: Update re driving on UK licence

Originally Posted by dreamer55
I thought this forum was to provide support to other expats? Calling people "stupid" or "illiterate" is helpful to no-one. Please, please think twice before posting aggresive responses. Life's hard enough as it is.
Calling someone "stupid" or "illiterate" might not be helpful, but neither is it aggressive. It was just someone's subjective opinion about someone else based information supplied by yet another someone
Please try to keep things in perspective, life IS hard enough as it is.
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