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My husband did this a few years ago - the local ACI office told him what documents were needed, and made an appointment for a medical check with the doctor who has a weekly session at their office. He failed the eye test and had to get driving glasses and return with the glasses and their prescription, then after a few weeks, the �������� licence arrived in the post. By law, you can drive on your UK licence until its expiry date (rather than having to change it after a year's residence in Italy as before), but if you are living in Italy at expiry time, you are then required to change it to an �������� licence.

As long as you have a UK address through which you can be contacted I would stick to a UK licence - it is perfectly legal to do so as long as you have one of the modern licences with photocard and EU logo. You cannot have a foreign address on a UK licence. Friends, living full time in Italy but with UK licences managed to avoid speeding points as it is not yet possible to put points on a foreign licence! Also, if you ever want to hire a car in UK, or perhaps elsewhere, we used to find that the cost was far higher if we claimed to be �������� rather than British, in some instances the hire car charge was literally double! Finally, I think you have to have a medical every so often with an �������� licence, can't remember all the details but there was another fairly recent post concerning driving licences and with each renewal and medical there were the inevitable fees involved.

Hi Sprostoni, I am in the same position as you. I had my UK licence "��������ised" a couple of years ago.  I did it through a driving school in Communanza. The chap there said to come back about 3 months before it was due to expire and he would arrange for the process to issue a new, �������� licence, as I cannot renew the UK one. I do have diabetes so obviously I will require a medical on that front. It was funny, because when I told him I had diabetes, he said that there were no diabetic �������� drivers around!!!!  Weird!   I can give you his details if you wish. A few other people have used him as well for things relating to re-registering.