14-09-2018, 09:51 AM
The folks at the DVLA have a massive workload & if applications are made incorrectly, the wrong documents are included, the wrong address is used there will inevitably be "issues".
I have made many such applications & (touch wood) never had an issue. The Rules are very simple:
First, & by far the most important, BE HONEST! Read what info they need, send it all to them with a covering letter & sheet itemising the enclosures, send it via recorded or preferably special delivery, send it to the correct address with the correct fee, if required. Wait the requisite period & you will usually be very pleasantly surprised by the speed & efficiency you will be dealt with.
I am not saying this is the case in any of the above, but they receive literally 1,000 or incorrect, incomplete & downright fraudulent applications every month, is it any surprise that these can take longer to process & occasionally get lost in the system.
Up until a few years ago applications of this type were dealt with by local licensing offices. Thanks to a previous round of Government spending cuts these offices were all closed down leaving us with the stretched to the limit service we currently have run direct from the DVLA in Swansea. Delays are, in my experience, rarely the "fault" of the employees at the DVLA and are usually as a result of an incorrectly completed or in a lot of cases downright fraudulent application.
I have made many such applications & (touch wood) never had an issue. The Rules are very simple:
First, & by far the most important, BE HONEST! Read what info they need, send it all to them with a covering letter & sheet itemising the enclosures, send it via recorded or preferably special delivery, send it to the correct address with the correct fee, if required. Wait the requisite period & you will usually be very pleasantly surprised by the speed & efficiency you will be dealt with.
I am not saying this is the case in any of the above, but they receive literally 1,000 or incorrect, incomplete & downright fraudulent applications every month, is it any surprise that these can take longer to process & occasionally get lost in the system.
Up until a few years ago applications of this type were dealt with by local licensing offices. Thanks to a previous round of Government spending cuts these offices were all closed down leaving us with the stretched to the limit service we currently have run direct from the DVLA in Swansea. Delays are, in my experience, rarely the "fault" of the employees at the DVLA and are usually as a result of an incorrectly completed or in a lot of cases downright fraudulent application.