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Moving and a new name
One form D1 changes both at once, by post, and it costs nothing. DVLA’s online service can update an address but never a name: GOV.UK says anyone changing their name at the same time has to apply by post. Send the D1 with your licence and original proof of the new name; the address needs no proof. Your log book goes in a separate envelope.
Each application to DVLA ends in a new licence, so putting both changes on one D1 means one card, one wait and one envelope. Updating the address online first is allowed, but the card that comes back still shows your old name, and then it has to go off to DVLA again.
Form D1 puts your new name and your new address on your licence together. It does not reach the other records DVLA keeps for you as a vehicle keeper, which each change separately.
Not together. GOV.UK’s online service changes the address on a full or provisional licence for free, and the card usually arrives within a week. As soon as a new name is involved, it sends you to the post.
Only your address
Your name and address
Moving abroad? GOV.UK says a new address outside Great Britain cannot be registered on a British licence, and suggests contacting the licensing authority in your new country.
DVLA wants original documents showing your new name, and GOV.UK’s guidance on a change of address asks for nothing at all to show where you now live. Write the new address on the form and that is enough.
Changing your name by Deed Poll? DVLA also asks for one document in the new name, dated in the last 12 months and after both the Deed Poll and your current licence. GOV.UK sets no rule about the address it shows, so a letter that reaches you at the new home serves as well as any other.
Your Deed Poll names an address too, and DVLA’s list of proof asks nothing about it. Deed Polls Online, our sister site, explains why moving house leaves a Deed Poll valid.
Your new name
Original proof
Your new address
No proof
Just write it on form D1.
GOV.UK’s fee table lists both changes as free by post. You pay only for extras, by cheque or postal order made out to DVLA.
Free
On one form D1, by post.
£17
No fee if you are over 70 or have a medical short period licence. Do you need one?
£20
Say what happened to it on the form.
Free
When your name or address changes. Paper licences.
From GOV.UK’s driving licence fees, checked October 2026. A new photo with an address change alone costs £14 online, but the online route is closed once a new name is involved.
Taking your spouse’s or civil partner’s surname as you move in together is the commonest reason to change both. Your original marriage or civil partnership certificate is the proof, so you need no Deed Poll, and everything goes on one D1.
Is your UK passport already in your married name? GOV.UK lets you write its 9-digit number on the form instead of posting the certificate. Your licence after marriage.
A blended surname, a new first name or a name neither of you had before goes beyond what a marriage certificate shows. That is where a Deed Poll comes in, at £18.50.
Each licence is its own application, even when you post them together.
A new licence leaves your vehicle log book (V5C) as it was. GOV.UK says a name and an address can change on the log book together, but only by post, and warns of a fine of up to £1,000 for not telling DVLA about either.
Expect up to 6 weeks for the new one, and contact DVLA if nothing has come after 4. If the vehicle needs taxing in the next 4 weeks, tax it online before you post the log book, or take it to a Post Office that deals with vehicle tax. The log book, section by section.
Two more, if they apply: a vehicle tax Direct Debit, and a private number held on a V750 or V778, where a V750’s address can change online but a new name always goes by post. Everything to update for your car.
One Deed Poll cannot be in two envelopes at once, so post this when it is back from the licence.
On the older style log book, without coloured numbered blocks on the cover, use section 6, sign it and send it to the address in section 8.
If your Deed Poll is not here yet, the address need not wait. The law expects a licence whose name or address has gone out of date to be surrendered straight away, so update the address online now and send form D1 for the name when your proof arrives. Both are free.
A change of name or address moves you onto a photocard, free. Send a recent printed passport-type photo and proof of your identity with the D1. Paper licences and a new name.
You can still apply. Say on the D1 what happened to the old one, and include £20. A lost licence and a new name.
The DVA takes a new address online, but nidirect says a change of name cannot be reported that way: it goes on form DL1, by post. The DVA’s form and address.
The duty to surrender a licence is in section 99 of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
Not together. GOV.UK’s online service changes an address only, and says that anyone changing their name at the same time has to apply by post. Send form D1 with your licence and original documents in your new name. Online or by post.
Nothing. Both changes on one form D1, sent by post, are free. Adding a new photo costs £17, with no fee if you are over 70, and a licence that is lost or stolen adds £20.
Form D1, the application used for car and motorbike licences; lorry and bus drivers use form D2. Both come from a Post Office that offers DVLA services, and a D1 goes to DVLA, Swansea, SA99 1BN. Filling in form D1.
No. GOV.UK asks for original proof of a new name, such as your Deed Poll or marriage certificate, but nothing to prove where you now live. The new address simply goes on the form.
Yes. The online address change is free and the new licence should arrive within a week. When your Deed Poll or certificate is ready, send form D1 by post for the name, which is free as well.
No. The V5C log book is a separate record: write the new name and address in section 3 and post the whole log book with proof of the name change, which can take up to 6 weeks. Your log book.
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