Driver's Licenses

We decided it was time to get our local licenses, so went to the website, got everything they wanted only to find out that absolutely none of the information is correct!!!

You now go to the Dirección de Salud Municipal to give them information. If you don't already know your blood type, height and weight, they will do that for you. We knew ours, told her the info, she put it on a form. Then for 72 pesos they give you a certificate that you must take with you to the Municipal Palace. HOWEVER, the office has moved. It is now three doors off of Morelos, across the street from the ATT store with a Chinese restaurant on the corner. Third or fourth door is well labeled, and they will take care of you quickly.

10 minutes later, with papers in hand, we went to the Municipal Palace to the same main office where property taxes are paid. Took our number, gave the woman a handful of original documents and all the same copied. She didn't look at the originals or the copies, asked if we wanted to be organ donors, took an index fingerprint and a tiny signature, took our photos, made copies of our copies and sent us to the cashier. Paid our 519 pesos for 5 years, gave her the receipt and she gave us our drivers licenses and all of our copies. Out the door in less than 10 minutes for both of us.

The cost on the website is 624 pesos, they send you to the health center by the church, and we don't know what copies you actually need because just for fun we each took 6 pages of copies and of totally different things, and she didn't care.

It was easy and painless and for a change, everything went exactly as it should have gone if not easier!

And you never had to prove that you knew how to drive a vehicle or even had a rudimentary knowledge of road rules or skills. Amazing!

Thanks for the update! So no longer at the Academia de Policía. Interesting.