Providing you have a UK address,

When you move to the UK you can get a UK licence on surrending of your Dutch licence but for the live in me I cannot see why you would want to..

Dear Collos25,

Thank you very much for your reply.

The reason for thinking to move to the UK is: I have to pay a lot of money for getting a registered office address by forming UK shelf companies. Of course, by renting a house or office I have to make costs as well, but I did research it and it is much more suitable to use an own registered office address. Now I have a superb company formation agent, but in first instance I was the victem of some b***** crooks. Naturelly, I informed companieshouse.gov.uk about these people !

Have a good 2014.

Kind Regards,

Jan Huts

I agree there are to many crooks in this world even a member of my family is one and I do not fancy his health if he ever shows his face.

I am a Brit living in Germany I had to change my licence as the UK licence is address based where as the German is not it was a very simple process once all the documents were in place but as said by previous posters changing your licence is not needed or required.

My understanding is you can drive here on a foreign licence for 12 months, after which you must acquire a UK one. Whether you need to actually sit any tests or whether we hand them out like confetti to motorists from all EU nations with inferior licencing restrictions, I don't know.

I think I can guess though....

So somebody can pass a test in Latvia & just drive here with no examination ever?

Back when the EU was rich Western Europe, that would've been fine. 72 minutes ago, every Romanian & Bulgarian with a passport was granted automatic entitlement to live here, work here, claim benefits here and use all social provision here.

Into the bargain they're now automatically entitled to a British licence? Makes me wonder why I bothered taking lessons and passing a DSA test when somebody with a Romanian licence can wander in and get it for free.

Happy new year.

Edited by Avant on 01/01/2014 at 11:57

There is a presumption that all EU countries require drivers to pass a test.

There is a presumption that all EU countries require drivers to pass a test.

Of the same standard as the UK test?

Not that the UK test is a consistent standard - some passed their test before motorways were introduced - indeed anyone who drove for the military in WW2 could get a licence without taking a test and still not done so.

The fact is that any visitor to this country can hire a car here and drive it if they have a licence from their own country, regardless of any standard required to achieve it - if we withdraw that international concession, nothing to do with EU, then Brits would lose the right to drive when abroad !

Stop making out we have to treat every EU country as though they are Britain or else we'll be in trouble.

Britain is in the EU - we either accept it's T&C or leave.

Britain is in the EU - we either accept it's T&C or leave.

Well I don't accept them so I vote leave. Or I would vote leave if any politician gave me the opportunity to, which tells it's own story really. Politicians hate referendums when they know they're going to lose.

Some senior Romanian official a few weeks ago put it better than I ever could when he said the British should accept 'we're all the same country now.' And he's right.

Nobody can tell me such disgraceful nonsense was on the table to the public in 1975.

My views exactly, we were sold down the river then and have been ever since by politicians of all parties.

I really thought this was a motoring forum I believe there is a General discussion section made for this.

Edited by Avant on 02/01/2014 at 20:22