Is there anyone there who could do us a good deed PLEASE?

We are currently in the UK for a few months. My husband has a couple of categories on his Spanish driving licence that run out on the 2nd December. One is particularly important, the BTP, as it enables him to drive a taxi in Tenerife.

We need to ask Trafico if it is OK to renew it 10 days late, when we aim to fly back on the 10th December, or should he do it 3 weeks before it runs out? Our Spanish is not good enought to ring Trafico ourselves.

We prefer to do it in December as the flights over are much cheaper.

Can anyone help PLEASE

mopeeps

You could PM Golden Maniac & see what she would charge.

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Hi,

you can renew your licence 3 months before it runs out, this is important according the law you can not do it later.

You can also do it in the UK, taking your id card, drivinglicense, 2 fotos and a medical inform visad by the spanish embassy

check here,

Dirección General de Tráfico : Jefatura Virtual : Conductores : Renovaciones

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Thanks for directing me to the website, unfortunately I cannot read much of it becuase my Spanish is not too good!

I was told on another website that we are allowed 4 yrs to renew???

Does it actually say on the website you directed me to that it is not possible to renew late?

mopeeps

Hello, i´dont know myself so i looked it up on the website of the government. I hope this is of some help.
Neither my spanish as my english is perfect but thats how I understand it and how I translate it to English.



and says roughly, that the prolongation has to be done maximum 3 months up to the last day, prior to the date of renewal, doing it two or three months before doesn´t affect the real time since it will become effective the date your license expires.
You have to do it before it expires it says.
Tough if your license is already expired you will always be possible to obtain the license when you realize the exams and medical tests.

This website is from the ministerio of Traffic.

La vigencia de los permisos o licencias de conducción será prorrogable, por las Jefaturas Provinciales y Locales de Tráfico, previa solicitud de los interesados y una vez hayan acreditado que conservan las aptitudes psicofísicas exigidas para obtener el permiso o licencia de que se trate.

La solicitud de prórroga del permiso o licencia puede presentarse dentro del período de tres meses anterior a la fecha de la pérdida de vigencia de la autorización de que se trate. Adelantar la presentación de la solicitud no va a suponer, en ningún caso, pérdida de días de validez, ya que la prórroga se empezará a contar desde la fecha en que la autorización que se quiere renovar pierde vigencia.
La solicitud de prórroga deberá presentarse antes de expirar el período de vigencia. No obstante, el titular del permiso o licencia cuya vigencia haya caducado, podrá obtener la prórroga, quedando dispensado de realizar las pruebas de control de conocimientos y las de control de aptitudes y comportamientos

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Many thanks Leon, looks like we have to come over in November when the flights are more expensive to make the renewal. He wouldn't be able to take exams in Spanish.

Thanks for the help.

mopeeps

I agree with Princess, get a professional to help you then there's no mistake. Why not send Goldenmaniac a PM ... this is the sort of thing she does to help people day in day out.

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Ok this is GENERAL info because I don't know the details of your age / specific case - In general one receives a renewal document through the post to your Spanish registered address you can then renew by certified post, BUT you would normally need to have taken your medical test at a registered centre in Spain and attach that with the renewal. Under normal circumstances that arrives about a month before your expiry date.

Under normal circumstances it makes sense to do your medical and get 2 new photos before you leave - the medical has three months life and then send the renewal off before you go, or pop up to trafico if the renewal document hasn't arrived before you leave - or pay someone like me to take everything up to traffico.

Unfortunately as you are already in the Uk the above is not an option.

Leon made a good translation of the regs : ie that <<The application to renew must be made BEFORE expiry. However the holder of a licence which has expired may obtain a renewal providing they are available to take a revision theory test and practical test.>> Which would normally be in Spanish

This does not mean that you WOULD be retested , but that you could be under law. This is the answer that TRAFICO will provide.

I have actually renewed a Pensioner's expired licence for normal driving categories 2 years after it expired ! - with no reprocussions, but I susect they may be stricter on professional driving categories, and you do not have a legal argument for extension to the time period.

My best advice to you if you are in the UK for longer than 3 months and you cannot return earlier to Tenerife would be to make an application to the DVLA advising them that you have returned to the UK permanently give them your address there in the UK, give up your Spanish licence and get a UK one. On your return in December you could then re- inscript or exchange the new UK one for a Spanish one once again and have 6 months leisure to do so.

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Soooo Sorry just spotted this bit :

which means: holders of a driving licence issued in Spain who are out of the country on the date of expiry of the licence who are in an EU member state or in any other country in which they are not resident may apply for a renewal at any Jefatura Provincial de Tráfico by post as long as the applicatioin is accompanied by by a photocopy of their identity document or a certificate of nationality if the applicant is Spanish or other document acrediting their identity if they are a foreigner, the licence that they want to renew, 2 photos and a medical certificate issued issued by a physician in the country in which they are at that time, said certificate must be authenticated by the Spanish Consulate or Embassy of the country in which they are.

So there is another alternative but it would mean being without your licence while it was sent away.

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