You will need to pick up your driving licence in person from the city office where you applied for it.

The RDW will review your application and send you a notification when you can collect the licence at the municipality.

The municipal employee will forward your application and foreign driving licence to the RDW.

A municipal employee will take your foreign driving licence.

How do you exchange your driving licence?

Are you eligible for the 30% ruling for highly-skilled migrants ( see the website of the Belastingdienst)? Then bring a letter from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration in Heerlen.

The translation must be issued by a sworn translator, the embassy or the consulate.

Would you like to exchange a driving licence not written in the Roman/Latin alphabet (like Japanese)? Then you will need to bring a translation of the driving licence with you.

The driving licence you want to exchange.

Read these requirements on the website of the Dutch government. Strict rules apply to the passport photo.

On this page Needed to exchange a driving licence You can find more information on the validity of a British driving licence on the website of the Dutch government (in Dutch).

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