USA Drivers License

Hi Katie,

I am an American living in South Africa for about 3 years and I have never had to change my license. I have purchased a car and had it insured without any problems. I am not sure about financing. I think you can get an international licence at AA (South African version of AAA) for like 10-20 USD with your valid US license. An international license should do the trick

Good Luck,

Sierra

Hi Sierra,

Thanks for responding.

Apparently your license is technically invalid here after a year but I guess if you go in and out they can't really prove how long you've been a permanent residence.

Just in case anyone else is interested...the changing process landed up being easy...just had to go to the police department and sign an affidavit saying I am now a permanent resident from whatever the last date I came back into this country and had to bring a print out from my states DMV saying what my license means (so I had a Class D license in NY and had to bring a print out of its description). Got my SA license the same day!

hi sirya

can u help me?

Hi Nebiyu Lera,

Can you please introduce yourself ?

Is there any thing that we can do ? How can we help ?

Thank you

Maximilien
Expat-blog Team