Foreign passports and documents

Examples of the series and numbers of a driver's license, instructions on how to recognize them by passport and last name

Today, old and new driver's licenses are in circulation, which are plastic cards in the format of 54x86 mm. New documents have been issued since 2011 and the arrangement of the series and numbers are slightly different. The required data on the old rights could be seen on the front side of the document to the right of the photo of the car owner. All the basic information about him was also located here - full name, place of birth, residence, date of issue and personal signature.

In the rights of a new sample, the number of a driver's license, an example of which is simple ten digit code, can be found on the back of the card at the bottom right. The series and number of the driver's license is important information, using which any interested person, if necessary, can obtain the following data:

  1. the presence of unpaid fines,
  2. the authenticity of the certificate
  3. lack of deprivation.

How to check the authenticity of a driver's license online

Knowing where the number is written, you can. A special form is available on the official website of the traffic police. To check the rights, you will need to enter not only the series and number, but also the date of issue of the document. As a result, you will receive information about the validity period of the VU, the categories of vehicles available for driving with these rights, and the date of birth of the owner.

This means that the rights are currently valid and the deprivation of the latter was not imposed on the owner.

This information is usually useful to employers who hire a driver in a company, since information is checked here not only on the deprivation of rights, but also on the current categories. Therefore, the situation is excluded when a motorist with category B rights will be hired as a bus driver.

In case of deprivation of rights in the window for issuing the results of the check, data on the period of deprivation and the date of the decision will be displayed. If the rights are not valid, a message will be displayed that information about this VU was not found in the database.

Is it possible to find out the number of rights by the name of the owner

None of the departmental websites of the State traffic inspectorate by last name or by passport it is impossible to find out the number of the driver's license of the owner of the above document. If this information is necessary, then you will have to come personally to the traffic police department closest to you and submit a request in writing.