How to Renew a Georgia Driver's License [2024]

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Replace or Renew Your Driver’s License in Georgia

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In Person

You may renew your driver license in person at a DDS Customer Service Center. However, if you are not eligible to renew online or by mail, you must renew in person.

To renew in person, you must meet the following requirements and submit the following items to a Customer Service Center:

1. Fill out an application for a driver license. You can fill out the application online ahead of time or at a Service Center.
2. Bring documentation to verify the following:
   • Your identity, including your full name
   • Your date of birth
   • Your Social Security number or proof of ineligibility for a Social Security number
   • Your US citizenship (or your legal presence in the US if you are not a US citizen)
   • Your residential address in Georgia
   • Use this list to select documents.
3. Surrender your existing driver license.
4. Have your picture taken.
5. Pay the license renewal fee of $32.

Tip! Even if your license expired more than two years ago, you may still be able to renew it, but you will be required to pass a vision test, a knowledge exam, and a road test again. Once you meet the above requirements, you’ll be issued an interim (temporary) driver license. Your permanent license should be mailed to you within 30 days.

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By Mail

You can renew by mail only if you have not changed your name, renewed in person at a DDS Customer Service Center the last time, and one of the following applies to you:

• You are out of Georgia on military duty, or you are the dependent of someone who is.
• You are out of Georgia to attend school, or you are the dependent of someone who is.
• You are temporarily working out of state, or you are the dependent of someone who is.
• You are physically incapacitated and cannot visit any DDS Customer Service Center.

To renew by mail, do the following:

1. Download the renew-by-mail application package.
2. Fill out the forms and mail them to the supplied address along with your payment of the $32.00 renewal fee paid by card, check, or money order payable to DDS.

You will receive your new license in the mail. It takes about ten days for the DDS to process your renewal application after it receives it.

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Online

You are eligible to renew online only if you meet all of the following requirements:

• You are younger than 64 years of age.
• You are a US citizen.
• Your existing license complies with the new Secure ID requirements. (Georgia started issuing Secure ID compliant driver licenses on July 3, 2012.) Your license is Secure ID compliant if there is a gold star in the upper right-hand corner.
• Your license is currently valid, or it expired no longer than two years ago.
• Your license has not been suspended, canceled, or revoked.
• You have not changed your name.
• You renewed in person at a DDS Customer Service Center the last time.
• You can pay the renewal fee by credit card or debit card.

To renew online, go to the License/Identification Card Renewal webpage of DDS Online Services, log in or register an account and pay the $27.00 online renewal fee.

It takes about 7 days for the DDS to process your renewal application before they mail it to you.

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