Changing driving License for a permit du conduire

Then they must have changed the law , my old licence has three stickers in it , one for each year . It wasn’t legal after I moved away from Jersey because it is registered at the address I was living at in Trinity , but I do have an old French one too !

My licence has 1700 as it’s number , so I assume that there were at least 1700 people living in the Parish of Trinity at the time , all had to be renewed before 31st January every year .

There were 69,000 people living on Jersey in 1970 ( all had to renew their licences every year) , now 107,000, so a few more that 50 years ago .

Had you gov mail today.

they are still working on it and hoping for an exchange agreement…it seems the problem would be if your British driving licence is out of date…

otherwise at the moment it’s patience.

Dear Barth B

thankyou for posting something positive…I,ve tried for 3 years to change my licence…first time I did everything asked for…and was told to wait…I waited…and waited…then realised I wasn’t getting a reply…so I went to the prefecture 18 months ago and was told…no licence exchange without a carte de séjour….so I waited …when it came …site closed.

Theres only one thing that would « drive » me back to the UK…no driving licence.

really hoping…..

do you think that the lady mentioned will be able to apply for us ?

if so how do we find her?please

Hi Marmite,

Here are her contact details;

Marie-Josée CONAN
Assistance Administrative Véhicules (2AV)
Administrative Support for Vehicles
6, Route de Loqueffret
29530 COLLOREC

Tél. : 06 37 95 54 32

Will,this won,t help the current situation, but a friend of mine in exactly the same position as you tried to do the right thing by changing his licence over to a French one.When he got it back there was a 30km restriction on his Cat D and they wouldn.t give him a Digi card because he didn,t have a FIMO.He had no choice but to quickly change it back to a UK licence.I also have a couple of friends who are driving French school buses with their UK licences.All was fine until 31/12/20,they have since been told to take the FCO in order to carry on working for the time being.They have applied to change their licences over but as far as i know haven,t got further than the first stage of application,they have had to go for a medical,that,s all i know at the moment,TC.

Latest news from the UK government (read yesterday on Facebook direct from a UK MP) is that UK Licences are fine until the end of the year and that both the French and the UK are working on a solution to solve the reciprocal treatment of both countries and for the UK, without the need for an Internationa driving licence being required. As for those whose UK licence has run out, all they could offer was an apology and until this is all sorted out there was nothing there could do about it.

Hurrah for common sense

And a little more detail from the soon to be canonised Kim Cranstoun:

24/06/2021 – UK LICENCES UPDATE RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT
Further to the update by the British Embassy tonight (24.06.21), I can finally confirm the terms of the agreement.
This is to be released officially by the Ministère de l’Intérieur soon, likely to be next week sometime, and have advised they want to ensure that CERT, CREPIC, ANTS and the Gendarmes/Police are fully mandated before the ANTS system goes live.
There will be a unified media release by the Ministère de l’Intérieur and the British Embassy Paris to publicise the new criteria and the opening of the ANTS system for UK licence exchanges.

The terms of the agreement are as follows:
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Licences & Photocards (4a date) issued BEFORE 31.12.2020
(Licences issued whilst the UK was in the EU)

Licences and Photocards (4a) issued before 31.12.20 will continue to be recognised as legal and will be eligible for exchange 6 months before the expiry date of :
Photocard 4b
Photocard column 11
Original paper UK licence at 70

A WARP (Withdrawal Agreement Residence Permit Article 50 Tue) will be required for UK citizens, or a CdS if you are required to hold one for application. If you hold EU citizenship, no changes to existing exchange procedure.
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Expired – Licences and Photocards (4a date) issued BEFORE 31.12.20
(Licences issued whilst the UK was in the EU)

All Licences and Photocards (4a) issued before 31.12.20 but have now expired, whether before 31.12.20 or since whilst waiting for the new system to go live, will be eligible for exchange.

This won’t be a quick process but once your application moves to the request to submit your licence you will receive an Attestation de Depot de Permis de Conduire (temporary licence) whist your French licence is being finalised.
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Licences and Photocards (4a date) issued from 01.01.2021
Licences and Photocards (4a) issued from 01.01.2021 will have 12 months from the date of issue of your Residence Permit to start the exchange.
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I am yet to be briefed on whether translations will be required for UK licence exchanges, but a Certificate of Entitlement will (I can almost guarantee) be asked for, document E4 in Files will explain how to apply for one.
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I must reiterate that when the system goes live no licence exchange application (licences or photocards issued before 31/12/20) will be processed if the licence or photocard has more than 6 months validity remaining on the licence, this has been made clear to us by the Ministère de l’Intérieur.

All scanned documents accepted and approved last July for my wife,s licence exchange.Been waiting since then,just had an email to say that to complete the process they need a form from DVLA to prove your entitlement to drive,think it is to check that you are not banned from driving.