A while back, my car was stolen, and unusually it had my licence in it. I applied for a replacement, duly received.
A few years later, I moved house and sent my licence off for an address change, only to be told my licence was 3 revisions out of date and that I had been banned, with £1,000s worth of unpaid speeding and parking fines.
Needless to say, DVLA said they never make mistakes.
Unpicking it, it seems that the people who stole my licence, also applied for 3 replacements at different addresses and were furnished with replacement licenses by DVLA, ran up several offences, meaning my licence wasn't the latest version, and I was banned.
It took me 2 years of getting copies of customers' visitors books, along with my own work diaries to convince them it wasn't me. Eventually, I had to compile all my evidence, prepare an affidavit, get it notarised by a solicitor, make an appointment with a Judge, swear on my notarised affidavit and present my evidence. The Judge looked at my substantial body of evidence and said he believed me.
Eventually, DVLA grudgingly re-issued me with a licence, but without the motorbike entitlement.
So again started another battle to get that reinstated - fortunately I took my UK car test and UK motorbike test on the same day, at the same test centre and had the same examiner.
Eventually I got my motorbike entitlement back, and then noticed that the place of birth was wrong, but I just couldn't bear the thought of sending my licence back yet again, so have just let it be.
Good luck! |
