Exchange driver's licence from an EU state

Hello,My wife and I are third-country nationals (non-EU citizens) who lived in the EU for many years before coming to Cyprus. - @notlost-justlookingaround

Why does your profile say you're French?

Full driving license: Valid for 15 years for cars and motorcycles, and 5 years for buses and trucks.

We printed and completed forms TOM 7, then went to the driving licence centre. We collected our Cyprus driving licences within a week at the post office!!!!!!!!! We even got a text to tell us to collect the licences.

There is a translation of the TOM 7 form on the website.

We had UK driving licences.

@Neptune3

Excellent, thanks.

Where is the "Driving Licence Centre"?

Is it the same as the district Citizen Service Centre?

Or is it done through the Department of Transport office in my district?

Or other?

Did you lose your UK licence when you did the conversion?

We travel quite a bit, and having no driver's licence when we're abroad would not be pleasant.

You make the Transport Department sound competent and useful... Unlike the Immigration Department which is neither based on past experience.

The Department of Transport in Larnaca, where you do the driving tests, was amazingly adequate that day. We were gobsmacked at the efficiency. I had to pay a nominal amount for the Cypriot licence because I am not a pensioner. We didn't need an appointment, but rather we had to submit our form into a sort of "postbox hole" and  then we were called in to the office within a few minutes to go through the form. 

@notlost-justlookingaround Only the ministry of transport - we tried the citizen help centre but they declined. You can find the location on Google maps.

Just completed mine today - very tricky for me. Quite stressful since they are pretty unfriendly about the whole scheme.

First you need an appointment for exchange,  we waited 4-6weeks

Evidence of 6months residency is absolute and only by utility bills.... lease contract that I offered was rejected. Mobile phone bill was a possibility, but only if submitted with 6months of bank statements .

I am UK citizen with UAE driving licence. They refused to accept that and stated that only UAE citizens could be accepted. I doubt that is legally accurate, but they were adamant.

On the other hand  they were happy to work off an expired UK licence (mine was 12years expired which caused raised eyebrows and confusion).

No need to take photos, they do that there

Licence can be collected in 3weeks and the cost was €40. Temporary licence issued in the meantime

Good luck !!

And this was in Pafos

Thanks for the info.

Glad to see they issue a temporary licence while the ink dries on the cards they print up...

Any ideas if that temporary licence is good outside Cyprus or the EU?