Driving License

You will need:
1. Copy of passport info page and current visa
2. Health certificate (obtain at any small clinic or doctors office for around 100 baht)
3. affidavit of residency (obtain from immigration or your embassy)

If you have a license from your country of origin you can avoid some of the following test given at Land Transportation Department to obtain license.
1. eye test (depth perception, color blindness, peripheral vision)
2. reaction test
3. written test
4. practical test

I would also add that it is a good idea to get a motorcycle license and a car license on the same day. That is what I did! You need to take the written test (computer) twice, even though it is the same test. The driving tests can be done on the same day, one after the other. They each only take about 15 minutes. It took me the whole day to get through the processes but now I find it useful to be able to rent a car if I ever want to. It also gives me a way to get an international driving license for other countries. Like you, I had no driving license when I arrived here. My Canadian license and my counterfeit Chinese driving license (I lived in China the last six years before moving here) had both expired.

About Visa for Driving License, It say Non-Immigrant Visa, and i know where i live, that what one need to get driving License or they turn you away. i do know some place they donŽt care about this.


Residency Certificate, if you not on a extension to stay, Immigration donŽt do them for you, then you only option is you Embassy.


Health certificate from local doctor on the street 30-50 baht where i live, i do know some place they only want them from a hospital, if so that around 500-700 baht from hospital.

You Picture, i know it say they donŽt want them, but i all ways ask my friends i help to have them, one never know what they asking for here in Thailand, so better to have them, as one friend "need" them when i help him.

"Photos - Photo's are no longer required.   They will take a digital photo for the new style card."


If you donŽt have a driving license you need to do this:

Training course.
Written test.


From other webpage:

Note:  To get your Thai license you must take some quick tests for reflex, depth perception, peripheral
vision test and color perception.  This seems to be arbitrary.  I did not have to take the depth perception
and peripheral vision test.  I've recently been told that you now have to watch a 1 hour movie about
driving in Thailand for the 1 year license.  The video is in English.

End from other webpage:




If you speak Thai OR you have someone to help you that speak Thai use that / them the day you go there.
So many times we help my friends, and it get "easy" when i bring my wife to help out, even so we have all paper they need, This is Thailand, and that the way it is here.

I hope you get you license without to much problem.

Kindly.

If I obtain an International Drivers License in my home country (US) will I be able to use it in Thailand? Will it help avoid the written or driving test?