I have just been onto the ANTS site to check about changing my UK license and if I have understood correctly, as there is no reciprocal agreement between France and the UK we are obliged to obtain a French license by passing the test in France by the end of January 2022.
When I tried to change my license last year, my application was refused as they were waiting for further information with regard to the Brexit deal.
When I try to complete the online form to change my license, it tells me there is no agreement with the UK and I can’t use the online system.
There is, on the government site, the procedure for changing a non European license but there must be a reciprocal agreement in place with the country in which the license was obtained.
I was told by the Prefecture that ANTS is the authority on licensing questions so I should follow their instructions.
Has anyone anything to add? Have you managed to request the exchange?
I’d urge caution on the wait and see approach Stella. IMO EU and UK relations are deteriorating as the slipshod “it’ll be all right on the night” approach by Gove and Johnson is unravels. Not least of all with the Northern Ireland protocol. The EU doesn’t seem minded to give an inch so I’m not sure licences will be a priority for either side. I’ve no magic solution but I’d advise people to do all they can to rectify their situations ASAP.
I have every confidence that things re Permis de Conduire will be suitably sorted for those folk who warrant the CdS WA…
for the others, arriving this year… not so sure… but I don’t know anyone in that category (yet)
I think I may well be taking the French test as well especially having been told by ants.gouv.fr that I am not allowed to drive here on my UK licence as I reported some weeks ago.
I think that’s the prudent thing to do Damaris, rather than hoping for the best and being disappointed. I’ve no doubt you’ll pass with flying colours.
On the French Brexit site it mentions 3 scenarios for British drivers in France
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Those settled here before 31/12/20
Those settling here from January 1st 2021
Of course, we can all read the same thing and understand it in different ways…
But, after the debacle with ANTS refusing genuine applications for PdConduire for various reasons (not near enough to expiry, etc etc )
simply to lighten the load on their systems… I do not think France will make those who were legally here before 31/12/20… take a test etc etc
It may well be Timothy but when I mentioned some while ago that the ants.gouv website had presented me with a screen saying that if I drove in France on my UK licence I risked incurring a 15,000 euro fine or up to one year in prison, nobody else appeared to have received this same message.
