Its starting to make less sense with the new EU rules that make you soon need to update the DL, but lets say you did a driving test in the UK in the 70's, you would have a huge wad of paper folded umpteen times as your DL - without any photo of course. (They stll issue a paper 'counterpart' you are supposed to carry.) And if you have in Finland a paper license, mine was valid until I was 65, and that bright-eyed young man at 18 surely resembles the likeness...
These days they're all credit-card sized uniform EU- standard ones, but say 20 years ago... Oh boy... was it in Belgium the didn't even issue licences until the 70's?
Exchanging US drivers licence for Finnish one
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Re: Exchanging US drivers licence for Finnish one
"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes."
Something wicked this way comes."
Re: Exchanging US drivers licence for Finnish one
I guess its because we(Europe) live in a soup like environment.Pursuivant wrote:Its starting to make less sense with the new EU rules that make you soon need to update the DL, but lets say you did a driving test in the UK in the 70's, you would have a huge wad of paper folded umpteen times as your DL - without any photo of course. (They stll issue a paper 'counterpart' you are supposed to carry.) And if you have in Finland a paper license, mine was valid until I was 65, and that bright-eyed young man at 18 surely resembles the likeness...
These days they're all credit-card sized uniform EU- standard ones, but say 20 years ago... Oh boy... was it in Belgium the didn't even issue licences until the 70's?
Australia is like the States i guess.
The local Government issued AUS Drivers license is a verified ID and has a set amount of points attached to it.
ID Points are needed to open things like bank account etc