Renewing your driving licence

You can use this service no earlier than 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 quadri-mobile, tractor, motorcycle and/or passenger car expired or if no more than 1 year has passed since your group 2 driving licence for a lorry, bus or coach expired.

If you would like to both renew the licence and upgrade it to cover new categories, please visit a service point of Traficom's service provider Ajovarma. You should also visit a service point if you in connection with renewing the driving licence would like to downgrade your right to drive, i.e. remove all the group 2 driving licence categories.

In some specific cases, data on your fitness to drive will need to be retrieved from the Patient Data Repository. For more information, see the section below titled "Health data 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. 

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. By using this service, you consent to this information being verified against records in other EU and EEA member states.
• You don’t have special condition 95 (professional competence) on your latest right to drive.
• 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 driving 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.