Others, some of whom have been waiting months for passports and other ID to be returned by the agency, have asked why the DVLA even needs to see such documents when they could be scanned securely at post offices or similar sites.ĭoctors, lorry drivers and lots of people who are were born outside the UK with foreign passports and driving licences appear to be adversely affected by the backlogs. Many drivers’ documents are reportedly trapped at the DVLA offices in Swansea. My independence is being denied by strangers that I have no control over, I cannot express enough my frustration,” she wrote. “My health condition means I may not live to 60 so I definitely need to live my adventures now with the boys.
After a medical procedure she has been cleared to resume driving, but can’t do so without her licence. The complaints to Guardian Money this week included one from a 47-year-old widowed mother of two boys aged eight and 12 who had to surrender her licence after being diagnosed with serious heart problems. Workers were again on strike for three days this week, in a long-running dispute over Covid working conditions. Last week it was reported that 800,000 letters are waiting to be opened at the DVLA’s Swansea offices with a further 60,000 arriving each day. While lots of people making online driving licence renewals have reported receiving them back in record time, others have reported long delays, including some new applicants for provisional licences. “Nonsense,” cried a number of people who contacted Guardian Money this week, some of whom have been waiting a year or more for their application to be processed.
#D1 form from post office manual#
The DVLA claimed last week that applications requiring a manual intervention were taking six weeks to process, but that applications made via its website were working normally.
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