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ajsp May 22nd 2011 9:40 pm

Driving licence in PR
 
Does anyone know the situation with driving licences and getting your hands on a car in Puerto Rico for UK licence-holders?

Cheers,

ajsp

Bob May 22nd 2011 11:09 pm

Re: Driving licence in PR
 
http://www.ct.gov/dmv/cwp/view.asp?a=805&q=244776

Take the test from scratch.

ajsp Sep 4th 2011 5:19 pm

Re: Driving licence in PR
 
Thanks Bob: your link seems to be for somewhere else (PR is a territory, not a State, so things can be quite different), but your advice turns out to have been spot on anyway.

Interestingly, it turns out that German driving licence holders can do a straight exchange (the only non-US licence that can), so it's worth having a German one if you can (I presume that's pretty easy if you're an EU licence-holder, and happen to be passing through Germany)....

fatbrit Sep 4th 2011 5:26 pm

Re: Driving licence in PR
 

Originally Posted by ajsp (Post 9600052)
Thanks Bob: your link seems to be for somewhere else (PR is a territory, not a State, so things can be quite different), but your advice turns out to have been spot on anyway.

Interestingly, it turns out that German driving licence holders can do a straight exchange (the only non-US licence that can), so it's worth having a German one if you can (I presume that's pretty easy if you're an EU licence-holder, and happen to be passing through Germany)....

http://www.dtop.gov.pr/DISCO/reqLicCond.html

Bob Sep 4th 2011 5:44 pm

Re: Driving licence in PR
 

Originally Posted by ajsp (Post 9600052)

Interestingly, it turns out that German driving licence holders can do a straight exchange (the only non-US licence that can), so it's worth having a German one if you can (I presume that's pretty easy if you're an EU licence-holder, and happen to be passing through Germany)....

If you have a EU drivers license and are residing in Germany, you can switch over a license, but you can't if you're on holiday. You have to show you've taken up residence, which isn't easy. Taking the German test from scratch is pretty hard.

Certainly more ball ache than taking any poxy test in the US.

fatbrit Sep 4th 2011 5:47 pm

Re: Driving licence in PR
 

Originally Posted by Bob (Post 9600093)
Certainly more ball ache than taking any poxy test in the US.

Precisely!


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