hello guys welcome back to my channel thank you so much for clicking on this video so in today's
video i'm going to be sharing with you how to get your uk provisional licence as an immigrant
in the united kingdom so if you watched my recent video where i shared how i passed my driving theory
test at first attempt in that video i talked about presenting my provisional licence as a
form of identification in the examination center so if you are new to the uk or you are planning on
driving in the uk the first thing that you need to do is to get your provisional driver's licence the
provisional driver's license once you get it you can use it for as long as 10 years yes you can use
it for as long as 10 years provided that anytime you are driving someone must be beside you and the
person must be at least 21 years old and must have had at least three years of driving experience so
to apply you need to be at least 16 years old yeah i think 16 or 17 years old i think 16 years old
i'm not sure you know but i believe those watching me now are people that are above 18 years old like
yeah so if you are 17 18 i believe you can apply so after filling all the necessary information
you'll be taken to this page where you need to fill in your house number or your postcode
this will help you to find your exact house number in the united kingdom so once you click on it it
will bring the full address for you and you'll be able to confirm that yes this is your address this
is not your address you simply search again or you check out the other ways to fill in your address
just below you know at the bottom of the page then it's going to ask you how long you've lived
in that particular house remember that you need an address of at least three years in order to apply
for a professional license in the uk so let's say you just came in and you just spent six months
or you just spent one year or let's say you have spent less than three years in the united kingdom
just impute the amount of years that you've already spent in the uk and you go on to the
next one but once you've imputed that you've lived in the united kingdom for less than three years
it's going to give you an option to add an extra address which is an address too so you just click
on address 2 and then it will load another page up for you and here you'll be able to impute
the addresses of the other places that you have leave so let's say you've been living in nigeria
before coming into the uk this is your opportunity to say where you lived in nigeria before coming
into the uk now a major challenge that a lot of people encounter when they get to this part is
that like i said postcode is very very important and they will always ask you for your postcode and
you know in nigeria we don't really have postcode even if you go online and you check for postcode
this is this place that you stayed in your you know your country nigeria when you enter a day
might just tell you something else entire like something different entirely so how do you go
about inserting postcode for your nigerian address so because we don't have postcode in nigeria like
we don't have an organized postcode in nigeria like they have in the united kingdom what you
need to do is leave the postcode area blank and just click on that red line red sentence that says
other ways to enter your address so once you click on that it will bring you the other ways whereby
you can actually enter your nigerian address without having to impute a postcode here you see
the different ways whereby you can actually enter your address and as you can see it has already
highlighted entering your address with your postcode so what you need to do is scroll down
and click on a non-gb address then you press next so after doing that it's a high skill for your
country you pick your country from the list of the countries and then it will ask you how long have
you lived in this place or i've lived here for 10 years you click on it then you press on next
after that it's going to bring you to this page where you need to fill in more information like
your own telephone number your mother's maiden name your place or back and all that so after
feeling all this you keep feeling and feeling you know the important information that they need from
you so those questions are just for security they are for security details and after that
you go to the next page where you enter your insurance number your blp number that's the number
on your brp i'm going to try and show you what it is you enter your national insurance number
and then you enter your passport number also so because you don't have a uk passport yet you
have your own nationalities passport let's say a nigerian passport so they will ask you for that
you enter your passport number also all this sums up the application process and after that
you'll be given a summary of everything you've entered so if you need to make amends you know
maybe you've made a mistake or something you can edit it and after that you'll be able to pay
you pay 34 pounds using your credit card or your debit card and after payment you receive
a confirmation email saying that you have applied successfully for this disease and that the dvla
will contact you via email address of course you will have input your email address also
in the process of imputing your personal information so in the next few days you
are going to receive a mail from the post and this will be like a form from dbla
asking you for some information again to confirm you know that you are who you say you are you know
and all those things you are going to fill in this information and then you need to send it back to
dvla via the post and when you are sending back the form you'll have to put your international
passports with its or your brp it depends on which one you stated which one you use when you
are doing the online registration i think i use the brp so i just sent it with my brp you send it
through the post and everything you need i mean the address and everything will have been there
already i don't think you will need to be paying for the post again i think everything is included
in what you have paid online the 34 pounds i've already paid online so you go to the post box i
mean so you go to the post office and you post it and then you expect them to return back your brp
and your provisional license to you within the next one week two weeks three weeks four weeks
five weeks i've had people who have waited for as long as two three months and i was like wow
anyway you have watched this till this moment so you deserve to know how to actually get
your professional license very very faster now because this is an online platform and it's a
public platform and i don't want to share this information just anyhow online i'm going to be
leaving a link in the description box below where you request for this information from me you know
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