Lucky you I'm still waiting sent it in early June, email to say it had been received 27th July, I'll probably get it back with next years D4 medical form.Old licence expired in June 2021, oops, got the new one with new photo back today. took five days. Still had all the correct classes on it.
It’s easy, ring the Welsh language line, get answered straight away. Obviously there are still people who want to work in Swansea...Anything automated is working fine, I've done a few V5 transfers over lockdown which have been back within 3-4 days. It's the stuff that requires a human with some common sense that's causing the issue. My youngest took months to get his provisional licence, my wife even put in a covering letter and contact numbers etc yet they still sent it back with some generic response, the annoying thing is the system should be able to use the passport photo as a friend of ours got her licence in a couple of weeks.
@awemawson I am amazed you got through, I have tried to ring them or use the online chat dozens of times recently and never once got through to anyone.
Go on the DVLA FB / twitter page.F*****g DVLA, I've just had a letter asking me for an up-to-date D4 medical, after they sat on my application - with valid D4 medical - for 19 weeks.
Our bus services are being cut daily due to lack of drivers, DVLA say you can drive whilst renewing, but as I am looking to go back into the industry I left 4 years ago employers want a valid licence.
DVLA phone nos. just cut you off, email- all you get is an autoresponce.
Wonderful way to run a country, bring back the days when vocational licences were dealt with by the local traffic commisioner, this would be dealt with asap as the local employers would complain direct to the Traffic Commisioner and it would be dealt with.
Already done that, but DVLA don't care.Go on the DVLA FB / twitter page.
19 weeks to process application, I'll probably leave the industry permanently.PS that sucks as its valid for 4 months.
That self serving waste of space, I wouldn't waste the cost of a stamp as he never replies - plenty of complaints about that.Write to your MP time.
Write to your MP, call them, be a nuisance.It seems nothing in this wretched cess pit of a country works anymore.
I had my Covid Astra Zeneca jab last February, within a couple of days I had a seizure, unconscious for four days, (when I came around the hallucinations were something else); my family preparing for my death or permanent brain damage; a week in hospital. On recovery was told by consultant to inform DVLA, expect a six month driving ban but reapply six weeks in advance of it ending. No reason given for the seizure - just one of those things? I'd not been ill, I have my suspicions.
Did that, informed the DVLA, a whole month later they asked me to return my licence, sent me some paperwork and a form for my consultant to sign. Six months, now became seven.
During that month, my wife's diagnosed with an aggressive Stage 3 cancer and a very poor prognosis, lots of GP/hospital/consultant visits, I can't drive her and hospital Covid restrictions mean I can't be with her.
Six weeks in advance of my ban ending, I send the form into the hospital for my consultant's signature and registration number, it sits on his secretary's desk for a month, then she goes on holiday, before she returns, he goes on holiday. Six weeks after I've sent the form in, it gets round to being signed and returned to me. I complain to the hospital about their admin, they don't give a toss and blame it on 'holidays'.
Form and Licence Application form sent to Swansea, I've only held a full licence since September 1967 but they need to know who I am, so Birth and Wedding
Certificate are required to accompany them. Will I ever see them again?
Another month passes, the DVLA return my documents but tell me they've passed my application to their medical department and they will have to write to my consultant. Another six weeks, maybe double that, who knows?
The way this contemptible corrupt government have run this country and its services into the ground, the next time I'll be in a vehicle with my wife, it'll be a hearse.
They'll fine you quick enough.They sent me a car tax reminder though so I think I'll make them wait 6 months just to repay the favour.
F*****g DVLA, I've just had a letter asking me for an up-to-date D4 medical, after they sat on my application - with valid D4 medical - for 19 weeks.
Please do make the complaint. They really do pull their fingers out and do something about it.Well that's the end of me driving buses.
Had a phone call from an arrogant and condescending DVLA employee, basically they are saying I did not send in a D4 medical form, would not accept they had lost it between opening the envelope on 27/07/2021 and processing it on 23/10/2021. Was told i had 2 options send in an up-to-date D4 medical or withdraw my application, So application withdraw under duress as I do not trust them to loose a 2nd D4.
I will make a formal complaint, but DVLA never loose paperwork or make mistakes .
I was TOLD that I had not sent a D4 medical - what they mean is the D4 was either lost or not scanned into the system - DVLA will have destroyed the paperwork months ago, I was bluntly told "send up to date D4 or withdraw your application for PCV".Please do make the complaint. They really do pull their fingers out and do something about it.