Verify and apostil your Drivers License

Verify and apostil your drivers license exchange your drivers license in a different country. Upon presentation and processing they will issue you a drivers license for their country.

  1. How to get your license Verified in South Africa
  2. Apostil the Verification

Countries have agreements in place. Make sure if the destination country accepts the exchange of licenses. If not you would need to redo your drivers license.

Verify and Apostil your Drivers license in South Africa:

  • Spain does not accept South African Drivers licenses or verifications there of.
  • Portugal allows you to exchange your license. You need to get apostil verification of your South African license.
    • Use this to exchange in Portugal for a Portuguese license.

1. Getting your license Verified

  • Send an email to the South African traffic Department requesting a verification of your drivers license .
  • Their email address is: ‘DLconfirmations@rtmc.co.za‘.
  • A sample email for you to copy:
Example of email for Drivers License Verification
  • Confirmation that the verification is ready for collection will be sent in an email and this takes about a week.
  • The email will look more or less as follows:

Drivers Licence Verification

2. Apostil the Verification:

You need to collect. Postnet can collect the verification on your behalf and they will take it to Dirco to be apostilled. They will collect it from Dirco and forward it to you.

Dirco – Step by step here.

The Dirco process can take a little longer.

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