How mad is this.
Left UK to live in Turkey 16 years ago with a full UK License. It expired a few years back (3 or 4) and needed a new picture to renew so in essence being in Turkey just used the old as it's no big deal with their police
Now returned to UK with a temporary "one use" passport (old one lost) lol - have no idea of my National Insurance Number and to reapply for a new license it appears I need either a passport or a NI number.
Ok so applied to HM Customs and Excise to do the deed of retrieving my NI Number some 4 weeks ago and they refused (Not enough info supplied apparently so supplied details of previous residence and employment and another 2 weeks have passed with nothing yet from HMC&E.
At least the girlfriend can't moan about her driving up the boozer whilst I drink the beer and she's on the orange juice.
Will I ever get another license Identity fraud is obviously a far bigger issue than we think with these measures in place! Rightly so, nonetheless it's very frustrating.
Left UK to live in Turkey 16 years ago with a full UK License. It expired a few years back (3 or 4) and needed a new picture to renew so in essence being in Turkey just used the old as it's no big deal with their police
Now returned to UK with a temporary "one use" passport (old one lost) lol - have no idea of my National Insurance Number and to reapply for a new license it appears I need either a passport or a NI number.
Ok so applied to HM Customs and Excise to do the deed of retrieving my NI Number some 4 weeks ago and they refused (Not enough info supplied apparently so supplied details of previous residence and employment and another 2 weeks have passed with nothing yet from HMC&E.
At least the girlfriend can't moan about her driving up the boozer whilst I drink the beer and she's on the orange juice.
Will I ever get another license Identity fraud is obviously a far bigger issue than we think with these measures in place! Rightly so, nonetheless it's very frustrating.