Has anyone did their California - Ontario driver’s license exchange recently and got the full G license?
I’ve the driving abstract from INF-1125 - it shows only from last renewal (which is less than 2 years).
The INF-70 abstract shows the same (less than 2 years).
I don’t have any of my old driver’s licenses. Only have photocopy of an old DL.
Can someone tell me how the drive test center will validate 2 years of US driving experience? I went to a drive test centre and no luck. If you had success, please mention which drive test centre in Toronto/GTA you went to.
You should take your old DL copy plus insurance history (insurance company should provide that easily) to prove your 2+ years driving record.
It is highly dependent on the mood of the DriveTest agent whether s/he accepts it or not. You can always ask for talking to the manager to explain the information in abstract. We visited the Drivetest location in South Markham.
I had the same problem. Here is what I am planning. My license is still valid till 2021. Im off by 2 months to complete 2 yrs due to this last renewal thing. I don’t have any old licenses. So I will wait 2 more months and then apply for INF-70 and have them mail it to my friend there. Then once I receive it I will then try to go to Service Ontario to request for full G license. Let’s see if that works.
Im not driving. So far using public transport and quite happy with it. I don’t have plans to take trips where I need to rent a car atleast for the next few months. I am not sure for how long you can drive using US license though. I heard there is a timeline of certain number of days after which you need to have Canadian license.
I think the timeline is 60 days, but agree that there isn’t a strong need for DL unless you have a long walk to bus stops.
I live in Richmond Hill and my work commute involves a 3 minute walk to bus which drops me right at work.
I have an expired California driver’s license but I can prove 2+ years of driving history using INF-1125 and my expired license, and 4 years using the insurance history. Do you think that will help with getting the G license?
Ideally getting 6+ years of insurance history will help. This helps in reducing Insurance premium.
DL History from DMV
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Insurance History from insurance companies will make it easy for you here.
I got both of them done in first 2 weeks. If you go on weeks days then driving license centers are pretty empty and you can get your done pretty quick
I landed here on May 26th . Got my DL exchanged around June 5-6th. Bought car next week and got a decent insurance deal
INF-70 won’t work either. It had the same info that 1125 had even though I had mentioned clearly that I wanted more than 2 years of my driving history. In California dmv, they showed me the law which came in March that driving record will appear from last renewal. Im off by 2 months due to this.
Hello,
I have a drivers license that was renewed more than two years ago. Does the license office in Canada require a residence proof as well? We are planning to stay at my cousin’s place for the first few weeks until we find an apartment. So would canadian dmv exchange our license? I have a bank account statement that we opened during soft landing and that has my cousin’s address.
Hi, I have an expired US drivers license and a driving record of 2+ years. Can i exchange that with the Canadian license or would they need a non-expired US license only?
Thanks in advance.
Hi there, same situation here. The Driver’s record i got from DMV california doesn’t state the “original license issued date”. It just states the issue date as renewal date which is less than 2 years. Can you please share your experience of exchanging the California DL with Ontario DL? How did you prove your driving experience (2yrs+) in this scenario? I have both my old and new california driving license, Also i can get the insurance history, i am not sure if that would help. Please share your experience ?