The queue ticketing system for driving licensing-related services will be implemented at the four Licensing Offices of the Transport Department starting from 13 March 2024 (Please click here for details). For driving licensing services and driving test applications processing over the counter, if no prior appointment has been made online or by phone, applicants are required to obtain a same-day queue ticket on-site before using the counter services.


Driving licence can be renewed within 4 months before the expiry date or within 3 years after the licence has expired. Driving licence holders with expired driving licences are not allowed to drive. According to the law, a driving licence shall not be renewed after 3 years of expiry. Should a driving licence holder fail to renew his full driving licence within 3 years after the expiry date, he will need to take driving test again and to complete the probationary driving period before obtaining a full driving licence for private car, light goods vehicle, motor cycle or motor tricycle. To remind driving licence holders to renew their licences in time, the Transport Department will send them a "Full Driving Licence Renewal Notice cum Application Form" (TD578)^ printed with a renewal password before the expiry of the licences. Another reminder (TD601)^ will be sent to licence holders whose licences are about to expire for three years shortly and yet to be renewed. 

Application for renewal can be made using TD578, TD601 or the application form for "Application for First Issue, Renewal and Addition of Full Driving Licence & Driving Instructor's Licence" (TD557) through the following means:

(a) by post to P.O. Box 68115, Kowloon East Post Office. Underpaid mail items will be rejected. For proper delivery of your mail items to the department, please ensure your mail items bear sufficient postage with return address. (Details); or 
   
(b) via drop-in boxes in any of the Transport Department Licensing Offices or specified post offices located in 18 districts of Hong Kong PDF Document (no postage is needed); or
   
(c)

in person/by agent over the counters of the Transport Department's Licensing Offices (Note: You can make an appointment for counter service through GovHK's website or by calling the 24-hour Interactive Voice Response System of the Appointment Booking Service at 3763 8080 to save waiting time. If no prior appointment has been made online or by phone, you are required to obtain a same-day queue ticket on-site before using the counter service (Please click here for details).
   

Alternatively, renewal can be made online. Apart from the use of valid personal digital certificate or an 'iAM Smart+' account with digital signing function, licence holders can also use the 8-digit Renewal Password printed on the TD578 or TD601, together with their identity document number registered with Transport Department to authenticate their identity and apply for renewal of driving licence online.  If you have not received the renewal password before or have lost it, you may obtain a new password by submitting an application PDF Document (*Printable Version) to the Transport Department

The validity period of full driving licence and the appropriate fee for renewal of full driving licence can be referred by clicking this link.

^ Please note that the issue of reminder letters from TD is only in good will to remind licence holders to renew their licence in time but is not prescribed in any regulations. TD578 and TD601 are sent by post to the licence holder's correspondence address as recorded in the Transport Department. If the licence holder has any change of address, he/she shall, within 72 hours of the change, notify the Transport Department in writing by submitting the form "Notice of Change of Personal Particulars or Vehicle Particulars" (TD559) or online through GovHK's website.