Driving license

[Shrey Adatiya]

Greetings
I’m from india and I’ll be heading to canada in December this year. I don’t have my driving license (four wheeler). I’m still learning it. So needed to know that will it help me in ontario province having an Indian driving license, or it won’t make any difference of license procedures in Ontario province?

Thanks

 

[jasz_blr]

Greetings
I’m from india and I’ll be heading to canada in December this year. I don’t have my driving license (four wheeler). I’m still learning it. So needed to know that will it help me in ontario province having an Indian driving license, or it won’t make any difference of license procedures in Ontario province?

Thanks

With a four wheeler (LMV - light motor vehicle) indian driving license you can at max drive for 60 days in ontario after landing. Since you are new learner and don't have minimum of one year driving history (four wheeler) so don't bother about it.

Long story short, you need 'G' category license to freely drive cars around. To reach 'G' level, you need to pass through G1 and G2 stages. Since, you don't even have minimum one year driving history in your home country so you will be spending around one year at G1 level. What this means is that you cannot drive alone, you will need a person in passenger seat all the time and s/he should be a holder of minimum 'G' level license. Moreover, you cannot drive in expressways and alcohol level in blood should be 0%. Since, you are going in Dec' and it will be snowing there. In extreme cases, you might need some experience to drive on snowy tracks with chains on wheels.

Short story long, don't risk into these kind of unknown adventures in the first semester of your academic year. Use public transport and simultaneously take driving classes from govt. approved driving schools. They can help you obtain G1 category license to start with.

 

[Shrey Adatiya]

With a four wheeler (LMV - light motor vehicle) indian driving license you can at max drive for 60 days in ontario after landing. Since you are new learner and don't have minimum of one year driving history (four wheeler) so don't bother about it.

Long story short, you need 'G' category license to freely drive cars around. To reach 'G' level, you need to pass through G1 and G2 stages. Since, you don't even have minimum one year driving history in your home country so you will be spending around one year at G1 level. What this means is that you cannot drive alone, you will need a person in passenger seat all the time and s/he should be a holder of minimum 'G' level license. Moreover, you cannot drive in expressways and alcohol level in blood should be 0%. Since, you are going in Dec' and it will be snowing there. In extreme cases, you might need some experience to drive on snowy tracks with chains on wheels.

Short story long, don't risk into these kind of unknown adventures in the first semester of your academic year. Use public transport and simultaneously take driving classes from govt. approved driving schools. They can help you obtain G1 category license to start wit

With a four wheeler (LMV - light motor vehicle) indian driving license you can at max drive for 60 days in ontario after landing. Since you are new learner and don't have minimum of one year driving history (four wheeler) so don't bother about it.

Long story short, you need 'G' category license to freely drive cars around. To reach 'G' level, you need to pass through G1 and G2 stages. Since, you don't even have minimum one year driving history in your home country so you will be spending around one year at G1 level. What this means is that you cannot drive alone, you will need a person in passenger seat all the time and s/he should be a holder of minimum 'G' level license. Moreover, you cannot drive in expressways and alcohol level in blood should be 0%. Since, you are going in Dec' and it will be snowing there. In extreme cases, you might need some experience to drive on snowy tracks with chains on wheels.

Short story long, don't risk into these kind of unknown adventures in the first semester of your academic year. Use public transport and simultaneously take driving classes from govt. approved driving schools. They can help you obtain G1 category license to start with.

Thank you very much. It was very much helpful. Now I won’t go into the driving license procedure. I’ll just learn driving. Thanks again !!

 

[jasz_blr]

IMO, you should still go ahead and obtain your Indian driving license. When you reach Canada, apply for G1 license straightaway and don't delay on that. Obtaining G1 is not that tough. You can go through online materials available and start preparing for G1 written test. Whatever driving you learn in India would be still helpful to some extent.

Obtaining G1 does not necessarily mean you need to drive. You can still obtain and keep it, so that the one year waiting period to move to next level gets passed along with your studies. If you try to obtain G1 after your graduation then waiting for one year could hamper your commute to office or work location.