” The DVLA said: “There are significant delays in processing paper applications and contacting us due to ongoing industrial action and social-distancing requirements. Paper applications are taking, on average, up to six weeks to process, but there may be longer delays for more complex transactions.” ”
DVLA didn’t notify me that my Short-term Medical Driving Licence was going to run out in May, but fortunately I’d been watching the days count down anyway and, after finally getting them to sent me the correct forms (third time lucky), I dutifully filled them in and sent them off at the beginning of March. My ‘relevant’ condition (M.S.) isn’t on their ‘Renewable on-line’ list, unfortunately.
Got a letter back within about 10 days saying they needed to contact my M.S. Specialist (fair enough) and that I shouldn’t contact them unless my situation changed. My M.S. Specialist told me he’d been contacted and had returned all the paperwork at the end of March. Have heard nothing since. Licence ran out in mid-May and I’m now having to drive under Section 88 of the Road Traffic Act.
They don’t seem to give a monkeys about my actually-far-more-disabling-for-me spinal damage. Why not? No idea! I always tell them, they always ignore it. Maybe there are too many long words? Maybe they just don’t have a specific enough ‘tick box’ for it on their job sheet. 😉