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How you prove your identity for a driving licence application depends on which identity documents you have.

This page is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).

Prove your identity using a UK passport

If you have a valid UK passport, write the 9-digit passport number on the application form.

Do not send your physical passport.

You cannot use the passport number of a passport that has expired.

Prove your identity using a share code

If you have a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) account, you can get a share code to prove your identity.

You鈥檒l have a UKVI account if you鈥檝e ever:

• applied to the EU Settlement Scheme
• used the 鈥楿K Immigration: ID Check鈥� app to prove your identity when applying for a visa
• created one when applying for a visa (you鈥檒l have received a UKVI account confirmation email)
• created one to get access to an eVisa (an online record of your immigration status)

How to get a share code

Get a share code from the view and prove your immigration status service. Choose the 鈥榮omething else鈥� option when you鈥檙e asked what you need the share code for.

Write the code on your application form. Do not send a physical identity document.

If you do not have a UK passport or a share code

You鈥檒l need to send an identity document by post to prove your identity.

Send one of the following with your application:

• a current and valid foreign passport that鈥檚 not from an EU or EEA country, with a visa sticker or stamp (called a 鈥榲ignette鈥�) showing you have permission to live in the UK
• a current and valid Irish passport - it does not need to have a visa sticker or stamp
• a travel document
• a UK birth, adoption or naturalisation certificate - you鈥檒l need to send further proof of identity with this
• evidence you receive a state pension

UK birth, adoption and naturalisation certificates

You can use a UK birth, adoption or naturalisation certificate, but you must send it with one of the following:

• National Insurance card, or a letter from the Department for Work and Pensions or HM Revenue and Customs showing your National Insurance number - find your National Insurance number if you鈥檝e lost it
• photocopy of the front page of a benefits book or an original benefits claim letter
• P45, P60 or pay slip
• your marriage or civil partnership certificate
• your divorce or end of civil partnership document (decree nisi, decree absolute, conditional order or final order)
• a gender recognition certificate
• college or university union card, education certificate or PASS proof of age card (issued after June 2014)

If you鈥檙e a pensioner

If you鈥檝e reached State Pension age, you can send an original of one of the following in your name:

• recent (within 3 months) bank or building society statement showing your pension payment and National Insurance number
• BR2102, BR2103 or BR5899 letter confirming your eligibility for the State Pension

How to send your identity document

You must send the original document with your driving licence application.

You cannot use:

• photocopies or laminated certificates
• certified copies including those certified by the Post Office document certification service

Consider delaying your driving licence application if you need your passport in the next 4 weeks.

Get your form and photo signed

You must get someone else to sign your form and photo to verify your identity.

The person signing the form and photo must:

• hold a valid GB photocard driving licence
• be resident in the UK
• know you personally
• not be a relative
• not be living at the same address as you

Suitable people include a current or retired:

• local business person or shopkeeper
• librarian
• professionally qualified person, for example a lawyer, teacher or engineer
• police officer
• bank or building society staff member
• civil servant
• minister of religion
• magistrate
• local councillor
• Member of Parliament, Assembly Member, or Member of the Scottish Parliament

If they鈥檙e retired, you鈥檒l need to write their former job on the form, for example 鈥榬etired teacher鈥�.

When you do not need your photo signed

You do not need someone to sign your photo if you鈥檝e agreed to have DVLA check your identity by:

• contacting HM Passport Office
• providing a current passport or travel document
• using a share code to show digital confirmation of your immigration status

You do not need someone to sign your photo if you鈥檙e renewing your licence with a new photo.

Get your documents back

You鈥檒l get your driving licence and identity documents separately.

Identity documents are returned by second class post. Include a stamped, self-addressed or envelope with your application if you want to track when your documents are posted.

Contact DVLA if you have not received your licence or documents back.

If your name or gender has changed

You must provide additional evidence if your name or gender has changed since your identity document or driving licence was issued.

Do not send photocopies of documents or laminated certificates.

Any certificates must be signed and dated.

If you鈥檝e changed your name, you need to provide at least one of the following:

• your 9-digit GB passport number if you鈥檝e got married or divorced (as long as it鈥檚 updated with your new name)
• your marriage or civil partnership certificate (if you鈥檝e changed your surname)
• your divorce or end of civil partnership document (decree nisi, decree absolute, conditional order or final order), along with your birth or adoption certificate, or UK certificate of naturalisation
• a deed poll
• a statutory declaration

If you鈥檝e changed your gender identity, you need to provide at least one of the following:

• a deed poll
• a statutory declaration
• a gender recognition certificate

Get a statutory declaration

You can get an official statement confirming that you鈥檝e changed name or gender (called 鈥榓 statutory declaration鈥�) from:

• a solicitor
• a magistrate
• a commissioner of oaths