United Kingdom First Provisional Driving Licence

Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Full date, YYYY-MM-DD. An applicant must be at least 15 years and 9 months old to apply (the licence itself cannot be used to drive most vehicle categories until 16 or 17, per DVLA age rules for each category).

Eligibility gate, not itself a form line item on every channel. If false, the applicant is not eligible for a GB provisional licence through this service.

Self-declared eyesight standard stated as an eligibility requirement on the gov.uk overview; the practical eyesight check itself happens at the driving test, not at licence-application time, but the declaration gates this application.

Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. All forenames, as they appear on the identity document used in identityVerificationMethod.

online = apply-for-driving-licence.service.gov.uk, cost £34, licence typically arrives within one week; by_post = complete form D1 (available at most Post Offices) and post it to DVLA, cost £43. This document does not encode fee amounts as authoritative data (they change periodically); the figures in this description are qualitative context only, consistent with the sibling gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard.

debit_or_credit_card applies when applicationChannel is online (MasterCard, Visa, Electron, or Delta debit/credit card only); cheque_or_postal_order applies when applicationChannel is by_post (made payable to DVLA per the D1 form instructions). Always required — every channel has exactly one accepted payment form.

uk_passport = give the 9-digit UK passport number; ukvi_share_code = a digital share code from the UKVI immigration-status service; other_document_with_countersignatory = a different accepted document (e.g. a current non-EU/EEA foreign passport with a UK visa, a current Irish passport, a travel document, or a UK birth/adoption/naturalisation certificate with supporting evidence), which generally requires a countersignatory unless identity was already verified through HM Passport Office or a share code. Applies to both the online sign-in identity check and the by-post D1 identity evidence.

Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Required only when identityVerificationMethod is uk_passport. The 9-digit number printed on a current UK passport.

Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Required only when identityVerificationMethod is ukvi_share_code.

Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Required only when identityVerificationMethod is other_document_with_countersignatory. The countersignatory must hold a valid GB photocard driving licence, be a UK resident, know the applicant personally, and not be a relative or someone living at the same address (e.g. a current or retired local business person, shopkeeper, librarian, or other listed professional).

Required only when identityVerificationMethod is other_document_with_countersignatory.

Corresponds to the D1 form's medical declaration section (Part A / Part B), which routes a 'yes' answer to one of DVLA's separate condition-specific medical questionnaires. This document models only the gating question; the questionnaires themselves, and the list of notifiable conditions, are out of scope pending independent review — see VERIFICATION.md.

Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Required when applicationChannel is online: DVLA sends a confirmation email once the application is submitted. Not confirmed as collected on the by_post channel.