Tips on living in Germany

Useful to people planning to stay:
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/Germany.html

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Useful to people planning to stay:
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/Germany.html


....... but only if you are from the USA!
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JohnT

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How long can a German resident drive using an International Driving
Licence?
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You can't. There's no such thing - a common misunderstanding. There is an
International Driving Permit, but this is only a unified-form translated
version of your national driving license. The rules vary from one country
to the next, but in general, if you are from outside the EU, then you will
have to take a test in the country in which you are resident unless there is
mutual recognition of licenses. For example, a UK citizen going to the US
has to take a test to get a US license, so that goes the other way for
Americans in the UK.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:04:53 -0000, "Traveller"
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"Martin" wrote in message
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How long can a German resident drive using an International Driving
Licence?
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You can't. There's no such thing - a common misunderstanding. There is an
International Driving Permit, but this is only a unified-form translated
version of your national driving license. The rules vary from one country
to the next, but in general, if you are from outside the EU, then you will
have to take a test in the country in which you are resident unless there is
mutual recognition of licenses. For example, a UK citizen going to the US
has to take a test to get a US license, so that goes the other way for
Americans in the UK.

The way I've heard it, the UK resident in the US has a far easier
test than the US resident in the UK, who had probably get used to
having an "L" on his car.


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"Martin" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:33:47 -0700, Hatunen wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:04:53 -0000, "Traveller"
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"Martin" wrote in message
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How long can a German resident drive using an International Driving
Licence?
--

You can't. There's no such thing - a common misunderstanding. There is
an
International Driving Permit, but this is only a unified-form translated
version of your national driving license. The rules vary from one
country
to the next, but in general, if you are from outside the EU, then you
will
have to take a test in the country in which you are resident unless there
is
mutual recognition of licenses. For example, a UK citizen going to the
US
has to take a test to get a US license, so that goes the other way for
Americans in the UK.

The way I've heard it, the UK resident in the US has a far easier
test than the US resident in the UK, who had probably get used to
having an "L" on his car.

Everybody in the US has a far easier test. In California it used to be
drive
around the block by yourself, if you make it back you have passed.

And CA is one of the harder places to get a license (really)

tim

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"tim....." wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message

Everybody in the US has a far easier test. In California it used to be
drive
around the block by yourself, if you make it back you have passed.

And CA is one of the harder places to get a license (really)

I had to pass a real driving test twice when I moved to different
states. MUCH harder than what you call "harder".

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo*

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"Traveller" wrote:

For example, a UK citizen going to the US
has to take a test to get a US license,

But he needn't feel put upon. We have to take a test changing from one
state to another.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo*

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:09:00 -0600, erilar
wrote:

In article ,
"Traveller" wrote:

For example, a UK citizen going to the US
has to take a test to get a US license,

But he needn't feel put upon. We have to take a test changing from one
state to another.

Some test. Usually just the written test. I've changed
jurisdictions Ohio Kentucky Arizona Washington Nebraska
Kansas California Arizona and the only time I had to take a
behind-the-wheel test was the first change to Arizona; that
consisted of driving around a few blocks with the examiner.

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* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *

Hatunen wrote on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:20:54 -0700:

In article ,
"Traveller" wrote:

For example, a UK citizen going to the US
has to take a test to get a US license,

But he needn't feel put upon. We have to take a test
changing from one state to another.

Some test. Usually just the written test. I've changed
jurisdictions Ohio Kentucky Arizona Washington Nebraska
Kansas California Arizona and the only time I had to take a
behind-the-wheel test was the first change to Arizona; that
consisted of driving around a few blocks with the examiner.

Things change. On a bet, I got a DC permit without any test by
producing an Irish one that I had bought in a post office there. I
believe the Irish now have driving tests (and a tremendous backlog.)

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

In article ,
Hatunen wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:09:00 -0600, erilar
wrote:

In article ,
"Traveller" wrote:

For example, a UK citizen going to the US
has to take a test to get a US license,

But he needn't feel put upon. We have to take a test changing from one
state to another.

Some test. Usually just the written test. I've changed
jurisdictions Ohio Kentucky Arizona Washington Nebraska
Kansas California Arizona and the only time I had to take a
behind-the-wheel test was the first change to Arizona; that
consisted of driving around a few blocks with the examiner.

Obviously it varies from state to state. I had to take a
behind-the-wheel test in both North Dakota and Minnesota. Somehow I got
by without one when I returned to Wisconsin, though I had to take the
written one here, too.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo