📄🇹🇭✨ DOCUMENTS YOU NEED FOR A THAI DRIVING LICENSE ✨📄
(For both first-time applicants and those switching from an international license)
✅ 1. Passport
🛂 Include:
Original passport
Copies of:
Main ID page 📘
Visa page 🛬
Entry stamp (latest arrival) 📅
TM6 (arrival/departure card) ✈️
TM30 (residency notification) 🏡
🖊️ Sign every copy!
✅ 2. Non-Immigrant Visa
📌 Required for first-time applicants
📅 Tourist visa or visa exemption usually not accepted
✅ 3. Certificate of Residence
🏠 Issued by:
Thai Immigration Office 🧑✈️
OR your Embassy in Thailand 🏛️
📑 Valid for 30 days only
🔁 Used to prove your Thai address
✅ 4. Medical Certificate
🏥 Issued by a clinic or hospital
🧬 Confirms you’re fit to drive
📆 Must be dated within 30 days
💵 Cheap — around 100–300 THB
✅ 5. International Driving Permit (IDP) (optional but helpful)
🌍 If you have a valid IDP:
No written or driving test required! 🥳
📄 Bring your home country license + the IDP
🖨️ Include signed copies
✅ 6. Thai Translation of Foreign License (if no IDP)
🗣️ Must be:
Certified by your embassy OR
Translated and notarized officially 📜
📍 You will have to take written + driving tests
✅ 7. 2 Passport Photos (Sometimes required)
📸 Bring just in case
4×6 cm, with white background
🚦 IF YOU DON’T HAVE AN IDP:
You must take:
📚 Written test (in English available)
🛻 Driving test (car or motorbike)
👀 Physical test (color blindness, depth perception, reaction time)
📍 Where to Apply?
🏢 Department of Land Transport (DLT) – local branch
🕘 Go early! Appointments can take hours ⏳
🪪 Validity of License
🟡 First license: 2 years
🔄 Then you can upgrade to a 5-year license
🛵🚗 Need licenses for both car & motorbike?
📝 Apply for each separately
📅 Some DLTs let you do both in the same day!
📞 Need More Help? Go to: https://tinyurl.com/ywnrqy6t