Driving Licence Exchange: Updated ruling effective today. Not good news!
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For those of you who were planning to exchange before the cut-off date of 30th June.
I attended the Traffico Dept in Cartegena for my appointment today, to commence the process to exchange my UK licence for a Spanish licence, now that I have my TIE.
My timeline:
1. Date of Resedencia/TIE application - 3 September, 2020.
2. Registered with DGT my intention to exchange my UK licence.
3. Approval of Resedencia/TIE application - 5 January 2021
4. Fingerprints, etc. for TIE - 2 February 2021
5. Collected TIE - 29 March 2021
Arrived at Traffico today with my Gestor and, along with another half dozen Brits and their Gestors, were turned away.
Apparently the 'new' ruling, effective today, is that if approval of Resedencia/TIE application (Item 3 above) is after 31 December 2020, you can no longer exchange your UK licence!
News to ALL in attendance today.
I am now officially a Spanish Resident, but will no longer be able to drive after 30th June, 2021 unless I pass the Spanish driving test!
Will investigate further and update if/when I have any answers.