Your foreign driving licence has an expiry date in the Netherlands. Most people learn it after it passed.
Answer 4 questions. Get your exact date, and whether you swap your licence (omwisselen) or take the Dutch exams.
Free. 2 minutes. No account, no email, nothing stored: your result lives in a link only you have.
Miss your date and you are still driving, just not insured. After a crash the insurer pays the other driver, then sends the bill to you. That is Dutch law, not small print.
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Every rule verified against the official pages on 2 September 2026. A script re-checks every source monthly; changes trigger a human re-read.
Read the rules for United Kingdom, United States, India, Germany, Poland, Türkiye, China, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Japan or all 255 countries.
You will get one of three answers
Keep driving, until an exact date
Non-EU licences work for 185 days after you register at a Dutch address. EU and EFTA licences work up to 15 years from their issue date. We compute your date, in full, like "4 March 2027", so you can plan instead of guess.
Exchange it, about €100
EU and EFTA licences, a short list of agreement countries (Japan, the UK, Alberta and Québec among them), and anyone with a 30% ruling can swap at the gemeente. No exams. We list the documents, the fees and the deadlines.
Retest, with honest numbers
Theory exam in English at every CBR centre (€57.00, 44 of 50 to pass) plus a practical exam (€143.50). Experienced drivers typically need 10-20 lessons, not the 41 a beginner needs. The checker prices every step of your exact path.
This is guidance, not legal advice. Every verdict shows its rules with links to the official sources, and links you to the official RDW self-check so you can verify everything we say.