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#Post#: 94178--------------------------------------------------
Change of address, V5, licence
By: Reentrant Date: October 15, 2025, 7:54 am
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Almost every day someone posts in the main forums that they
moved house, changed the address on their driving licence, but
didn't update the V5 / RK details, leading to all kinds of
self-inflicted issues.
Well I don't know how new this is but I just updated my driving
licence (over 70 so every 3 years <sigh>). There's a new (to me)
"GOV.UK ONE" service that links to DVLA for online applications,
and that now lets you add a vehicle to the same account as your
driving licence.
So I assume if you change the address for one it will
automatically update the other, or at least strongly remind you
to do so.
#Post#: 94184--------------------------------------------------
Re: Change of address, V5, licence
By: DWMB2 Date: October 15, 2025, 8:25 am
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[quote author=Reentrant link=topic=8408.msg94178#msg94178
date=1760532858]
So I assume if you change the address for one it will
automatically update the other
[/quote]
That feels like the sort of assumption that could lead to the
very problems you describe.
#Post#: 94189--------------------------------------------------
Re: Change of address, V5, licence
By: andy_foster Date: October 15, 2025, 8:55 am
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It may well be that the DVLA has experimented with a small
amount of joined up thinking.
Personally, I provisionally consider this to be a good thing,
subject to the usual caveats, particularly those involving the
DVLA and their predilection for issuing penalties to motorists
for their own f*ck ups.
As a cautionary tale, the closest analog I can think of is the
default "auto-renewal" for car insurance, that few if any
insurers ever actually ask their customers if they want, but is
seen as a convenience to avoid inadvertently being uninsured,
ignoring that if the insurer fails to renew the policy, the
motorist may well be unaware, but will shoulder the criminal
liability for ensuring that he is insured.
#Post#: 94234--------------------------------------------------
Re: Change of address, V5, licence
By: Boomer Date: October 15, 2025, 1:13 pm
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This sounds suspiciously like the OneLogin "service" that is the
government's "nudge" to get you to register for Digital ID
(BritCard).
If you are comfortable with this then "fill yer boots", but if
you are a bit sceptical then consider using the old fashioned
(albeit slower) ways to bow down to our lords and masters ;)
#Post#: 94266--------------------------------------------------
Re: Change of address, V5, licence
By: NewJudge Date: October 16, 2025, 2:35 am
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Have you actually used this?
From what I can gather it seems it is only available to those
with a central government e-mail address (e.g. ".gov.uk",
".police.uk" ".nhs.uk"):
HTML https://www.sign-in.service.gov.uk/about#:~:text=GOV.UK%20One%20Login%20is%20currently%20available%20to%20all%20central,out%20more%20about%20your%20service.
"Who can use GOV.UK One Login
GOV.UK One Login is currently available to all central
government departments and agencies."
It seems it is proposed that it will supersede the "Government
Gateway" system. I have had a login to that for about eight
years and it doesn't work very well.
Even if it was available to me, I don't think I would trust it
to update my V5C
#Post#: 94271--------------------------------------------------
Re: Change of address, V5, licence
By: DWMB2 Date: October 16, 2025, 4:18 am
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You definitely don't need a central government email address to
use it; I use it often at work with a non-government email
address. The "Find a Tender" service on which all government
procurement exercises run requires a GOV.UK One login.
"available to all central government departments and agencies"
in this context probably means that all central government
departments and agencies are able to switch their digital
services over to run via that system.
#Post#: 94294--------------------------------------------------
Re: Change of address, V5, licence
By: Reentrant Date: October 16, 2025, 6:32 am
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I used it yesterday to renew my DL. One interesting part of the
registration was laying your smartphone on your passport so it
can read the ID chip.
You do need a reasonably recent Android phone / iPhone to
register (can't remember the exact specs).
#Post#: 94352--------------------------------------------------
Re: Change of address, V5, licence
By: Boomer Date: October 16, 2025, 10:49 am
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[quote author=NewJudge link=topic=8408.msg94266#msg94266
date=1760600158]
From what I can gather it seems it is only available to those
with a central government e-mail address (e.g. ".gov.uk",
".police.uk" ".nhs.uk"):
[/quote]
That link is probably for government departments (or agencies?)
who are being "invited" to use OneLogin to authenticate users.
Thus the "Ministry of Dog Fouling" can force you to login should
you wish to report and upload a photo of illegal puppy poo.
That way, at a future date, the "Ministry of Citizen Compliance"
can be sure that they are issuing the correct person (curtain
twitcher) with their appropriate social credits, and the
"Ministry of Photograph Tracking" have the serial number of your
camera, should you be caught recording things that are not
approved by the then government!
Oh, and a OneLogin account is now a LEGAL REQUIREMENT for
company directors in the UK (see
HTML https://www.gov.uk/guidance/verifying-your-identity-for-companies-house)!<br
/>I don't remember the BBC giving that news much publicity?
I too have a Government Gateway account, which i was forced
(over five years ago) to create to determine whether and when i
would qualify for my state pension. As part of that, i was
forced to hand over my mobile phone number, so even then they
were trying to slurp as much information as they could about me
(even though they already had my NI number).
This creeping centralised computerisation is not for our
benefit, and has been slowly going on for years (regardless of
the government who are supposedly in power) :(
#Post#: 94717--------------------------------------------------
Re: Change of address, V5, licence
By: d612 Date: October 19, 2025, 11:44 am
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The news about the new ID certification requirements for
directors and company secretaries coming in and the requirement
to use gov onelogin for future transactions on the Companies
House Website have been circulated umpteen times by C.House to
the official email address of the company registered with them.
The requirement to supply an official company email address for
all communications from Companies house has existed for maybe 2
years. There is pretty well no excuse not to know about it for
those that should know. I'm sure the BBC will catch up when we
get the usual moans and outrage from those that claim they knew
"nothing about it" and their company has been struck off as a
result of not complying. Then the BBC/D.Mail/Express can run a
suitable rage bait headline
Not before time actually. Multiple entries for directors using
different versions of their name ( full or only first and
surname) or address and the use of ficticious address has been
going on for years, not to mention the typos's which result in
multiple entries for the same named director: I had two seperate
and distinct entries as a formation agent mistyped my postcode,
when I should have had both companies listed together under my
name.
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