The application for renewal can be submitted up to six months before your driving license class expires.
Processing time of 4 to 6 weeks.

Personal appointment
An appointment is required, which you can make using the online appointment booking form linked below.

Is the next available appointment too late for you?
Depending on daily staff capacity, we will open up new appointments from 7:15 a.m. Monday to Friday.
Canceled appointments are automatically made available again. Please check back in between to see if an earlier appointment is available for you.

Emergencies or particularly urgent matters
Please note that emergency matters also require an appointment to be made in advance. You can contact us by telephone (see Contact) or send an e-mail (see Contact) with a description of your emergency directly to the relevant department.

• Previous driver's license
• Identity card or passport
• A current biometric passport photo according to ICAO standard (requirements: black and white or color, 35 x 45 millimeters in portrait format without border in frontal view, face height 32-36 mm from chin to hairline. Please refer to the photo sample table of the Bundesdruckerei under "Forms and links")
• Original ophthalmologist's certificate in accordance with Annex 6 No. 2 of the Driving License Ordinance
• Certificate of medical fitness examination in accordance with Annex 5 of the Driving License Ordinance in the original
• For commercial use of categories C or D: Certificates of further training (5 modules, key number 95) in the original

additionally for category D:

• Certificate of good conduct of document type "O"
• Performance test from the age of 50 or if you turn 50 within the next 5 years (without submitting the performance test, the classes can only be extended until your 50th birthday)

You also have the option of taking the photo at one of the self-service terminals (Speed Capture Stations) in the waiting area of the Citizens Service Center and in the three branch offices in Bad Godesberg, Beuel and Hardtberg; detailed information on this can be found under "Notes".

From January 1, 2025, 45.10 euros; the fee may increase depending on the processing effort.

The renewal of a driving license costs a one-off fee of 43.90 euros.

There is currently a fee of 4.50 euros for using the photo stations in the waiting areas.

For direct delivery from the Bundesdruckerei to your home: additional fee of 5.31 euros.

For an express order (5 working days, no direct delivery possible): Additional fee of 25.60 euros.

The following payment options are available to you on site :

• Cash
• EC card
• Credit card
• Foreign debit card
• Apple Pay and Google Pay

There are no additional fees for cashless payments.

Biometric passport photo - Speed Capture Stations

Among other things, you will need a biometric passport photo for the application. You can have this taken at photo stores. However, there are also self-service terminals (Speed Capture Stations) in the waiting area of the Citizens Service Center and in the three branch offices in Bad Godesberg, Beuel and Hardtberg for capturing biometric data and the passport photo. This gives you the opportunity to have your fingerprints and signature digitized and a passport photo taken 15 minutes before your appointment at the self-service terminals.

Using the data recorded, you can apply for a new ID card, temporary ID card, children's passport, electronic passport and driving license. The devices guide users through the registration process in German, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Ukrainian or Turkish.

Employees have access to this information from their workstations and can process it directly. The fee of 4.50 euros for data entry is charged together with the administrative fees for the new ID document or driving license. It can be paid in cash or cashless.

The self-service terminals are certified by the Federal Office for Information Security. The data is recorded anonymously and without linking it to personal details under an ID number and is stored and transmitted in encrypted form. The information is deleted after 24 hours once it has been retrieved by municipal employees. You will not receive a paper printout of the passport photo.