#DO YOU HAVE TO PAY TO RENEW LICENSE NY DRIVERS#
Other than that (and, for the purpose of maintaining an address in the US for other reasons) there is no reason to hold a drivers license from any state in the US. You should also be able to get an International Drivers Permit for use in the US and other countries. Therefore it seems that there would be no reason to even have a drivers license from the US when you are living overseas as long as you have your valid passport, and whatever visas are deemed necessary.Īs for driving when overseas, each country has their specific rules as to what form of licensing you need, and, you should be able to get some form of license where you are. When abroad, no one has every asked me for any STATE Identification they only care about the passport which is a national form of identification. Does any one have experience with this?Īccording to what I understand, and, as someone above pointed out, if you are living abroad, then, technically, while you are still a US Citizen, you are no longer a resident of any state in the US. However all the 'normal' methods of renewing a license require you to be in the state as you are sent a camera card which needs to be taken to the DMV in person. If you need to check on your license status, you can always buy a copy of your driving record. You should be able to renew your expired license by following the methods outlined below.
But you may be issued a traffic ticket if you drive without a valid driver's license. The license was issued in Pennsylvania, and the DMV website has this to say:Īlthough you can't legally drive on an expired license, the state doesn't currently have any firm restrictions on how long you have to renew an expired license without facing additional consequences, so long as your license has not been suspended or revoked.
I could also get a local driving license, but I'm currently living in Germany and colleagues have told me this is a rather expensive ordeal. I could wait until I'm back in the States again to renew, but I don't have plans to go back in the near future. I hadn't used the license/driven anywhere in several years at the time that it expired, but now I'm thinking of using it again for short trips/rentals. My driver's license expired last autumn (September 2013).