U.K. Photo Card Driving Licence Expiry

Dalartokat · Post by **Dalartokat** » Wed 10 Mar 2021 4:07 pm

This is purely for information or anyone interested in keeping up to date with info...

On your U.K. Photo-card Licence, 4b it gives you a date of expiry of your photo...due to Covid, people in U.K. had an extension of 11 months. If your Photo Licence expired between 1/2/20 - 31/12/20. That extension is now coming to an end and needs to be renewed. They are now sending out reminders

The price is £14 online.....renew online www.gov/renew-driving-licence
£21.50 at a U.K. Post Office - if you pay by cheque or postal order a £4.50 service charge is included in that amount.

You need a Valid U.K. Passport and they use the photo on that passport and a valid Debit or Credit Card( if you renew at a U.K. Post Office your photo will be taken at the counter and your application sent away electronically)

Further information www.gov.U.K. and search INF188/6

Deniz1 · Post by **Deniz1** » Thu 11 Mar 2021 6:56 am

Mine ran out months ago. I havnt been to the uk for 19yrs so I wont bother to renew.

Dalartokat · Post by **Dalartokat** » Thu 11 Mar 2021 7:52 am

Well that’s pretty obvious it wouldn’t apply to you, as said it was for information.

13roman58 · Post by **13roman58** » Thu 11 Mar 2021 8:39 am

Thanks for the info.
I did mine online but as l don't have a U.K. address took the opportunity to change to a family members address.

waddo · Post by **waddo** » Thu 11 Mar 2021 9:30 am

Thanks for that, I renewed mine last June and if I ever get it back - currently stuck in a UK address - I will check it! To be fair I only renew it because it is free, old age privilege and I think they use my passport photo anyway but don’t really know! Useful information always welcome!

Dalartokat · Post by **Dalartokat** » Thu 11 Mar 2021 11:11 am

Waddo, it’s the actual photo that has a separate expiry date which doesn’t marry up with the expiry date of the licence, so hopefully your photo part won’t need renewing, but yes you are right if you have a valid passport they will take the photo from that. They are charging to change the photo side and old card licence has to be cut in half and returned to DVLA.