Renewing your driving licence

You can use this service 6 months before your current driving licence will expire. If your driving licence has already expired, you can use this service to renew it if no more than 2 years have passed since your group 1 driving licence for a moped, light quadricycle, tractor, motorcycle and/or passenger car expired or if no more than 1 year has passed since your group 2 driving licence for a truck or bus expired. If your driving licence is about to expire within the next 6 months and you would like to both renew the licence and upgrade it to cover new categories, please visit an Ajovarma service point.

In some specific cases, your driving health data will need to be retrieved from the Patient Data Repository. For more information, see the section below titled "Driving health related conditions for using the service". Read more about renewing your driving licence here (External link).

If you have not yet added your email address to the service, you can do so by going to the Personal Information tab after you have logged in to the service. Add your email address before paying for the service. After you have submitted your payment, you will be sent a driving licence order confirmation to the email address you provided.

General requirements for using the service

• You are not banned from driving.
• Your driving licence will expire within the next 6 months, or
  • your group 1 driving licence expired no more than 2 years ago, or
  • your group 2 driving licence expired no more than 1 year ago.
• You do not hold a driving licence issued in another EU or EEA country.
• You are not under the obligation to use an alcohol interlock when driving. Alcohol interlock-controlled driving rights must be renewed at Ajovarma's licence service points.
• For the purpose of renewing your driving licence, your photograph and signature are available in electronic format in a register by the authorities. By submitting your driving licence application, you grant Traficom your permission to use the image and signature displayed by the e-Services, which have been retrieved from Traficom's image register or the police passport photo register, on your driving licence. Your photograph and signature will be available if
  • you have a valid personal identification card or passport
  • you provided a photograph and signature for a driving licence, driver card, professional competence card, ADR licence or a taxi driver licence in 2013 or have done so since then.
• Your permanent address is in mainland Finland. Driving licences will be sent to the customer's official address in Finland, as stated in the population information system. If your address information is incorrect, please update it before submitting your order using the Notification of change of address service of Post and Digital and Population Data Services Agency at www.posti.fi/changeaddress (External link).
• You can log into the service using online bank identifiers or mobile recognition.

Driving health related conditions for using the service

In some cases, using the service may require that your driving health data is retrieved from the Patient Data Repository. See below if retrieving the driving health data is compulsory or voluntary for you.

Your driving health data must be saved to the Patient Data Repository on form F122 (medical certificate on driving capacity) by a doctor. The medical certificate may not date back to more than six months. The service will retrieve the required driving health data by your consent.

If you are required to retrieve your driving health data, but your driving health data is not available digitally, you will not be able to use the service. In such cases, you will need to submit your driving licence permit application to a service point of Ajovarma, a Traficom service provider. There, you must prove that you meet the necessary driving health requirements with a printed medical certificate that you received from your doctor.