Originally Posted by
oliver2002
The Swedish consulate also has a note for its citizens on the Berlin embassy page. You're OK as long as the DL is still valid, but have to renew in Germany before it expires. Yesterday we looked and her DL expired in March.
The Swedish Embassy has a solution for that too.
My wife hardly drives here in the first place, so no urgency.
Is her Swedish driving license also her national ID? Many such licenses seem to be.
But in Sweden, if a person is resident there for more than a certain period of time, then the person is legally required to get a Swedish license to drive if driving there. If the Swedish police catch someone not having a Swedish driving license when they should, the foreign passport and foreign license won't spare them from some legal troubles. That kind of thing seems rather common in many jurisdictions -- Germany included -- even if barely driving and caught the one or two times in a year when driving locally.