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Posted by jason 8 years ago.
Did you have to surrender your NZ driver's licence?
Hi all, Visited VicRoads recently to check if I could convert my NZ licence to an Australian one and I was told that I needed to surrender my NZ licence first for them to replace it with an Australian one.
Just checking to see if this happened with others or was I just given the wrong answer, somehow?
thanks
Reply from forum moderator 6 months ago on 3 November 2023.
No, you do not have to surrender your NZ license. In the past, this was something that was very inconsistent between different VicRoads offices - some requested that you surrender your license and others didn't.
If you are asked to surrender your license, challenge it and go to another VicRoads if they insist.
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