# Verification record — `gb/dvla/driving-licence-first-provisional` v1.0.0 This file is the **source-review record** for this document version, per the [`manual-source-review-v1`](../../../../../practices/manual-source-review-v1.md) practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly. ## Current claim - **`status`:** `draft` - **`verification.method`:** `manual-source-review-v1` - **`verification.lastVerifiedAt`:** `2026-07-01` The document was **derived from and cross-checked against** the official sources below, but the full field-by-field comparison the practice requires (`manual-source-review-v1` → Procedure step 2) has **not** yet been completed against the live authenticated flow at `apply-for-driving-licence.service.gov.uk` or a live scan of form D1 itself. It therefore remains `draft`, not `verified`. ## Sources examined - **Document `(id, version)`:** `gb/dvla/driving-licence-first-provisional` / `1.0.0` - **Spec version:** GovSchema `0.3.0` - **Authority:** Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). - **Primary source URL:** (fetched live, 2026-07-01) — eligibility (age, eyesight, residency), application channels (online vs. by post), fees, payment methods, and the post-application confirmation-email statement. - **Secondary source URL:** (fetched live, 2026-07-01) — identity-verification categories (UK passport, UKVI share code, other accepted documents) and the countersignatory rules. - **Tertiary/weak source (not an official DVLA field list):** third-party PDF-form-filler summaries of form D1's section structure (personal details, eyesight, licence categories wanted, previous licence details, medical declaration Part A/Part B), used only to confirm that a medical-condition declaration section exists on the paper channel. No official, independently reachable, line-by-line D1 field specification was found or used. - **Official form id:** D1 ("Application for a driving licence"), by-post channel only — available at Post Offices, not published as a downloadable PDF (same access pattern as the sibling `gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard`'s D1 pack). The online channel has no form number. - **Retrieved / reviewed:** 2026-07-01. - **Reviewer:** GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source review). ## What was confirmed against the source | Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | "be at least 15 years and 9 months old" | `dateOfBirth` | | "have been given permission to live in Great Britain... for at least 185 days" | `residencyMeetsRequirement` | | "be able to read a number plate from 20 metres away" | `eyesightMeetsStandard` | | Online channel: £34, arrives within a week, MasterCard/Visa/Electron/Delta debit or credit card | `applicationChannel`, `paymentMethod` | | By-post channel: form D1 from a Post Office, £43 by cheque or postal order | `applicationChannel`, `paymentMethod` | | "DVLA will send you a confirmation email once you've applied" | `email` | | "You'll be told when you sign in if you need to prove your identity... using photo ID like a passport" | `identityVerificationMethod` | | UK passport: "Write the 9-digit passport number on the application form" | `identityVerificationMethod = uk_passport`, `ukPassportNumber` | | UKVI share code as a digital identity-verification route | `identityVerificationMethod = ukvi_share_code`, `ukviShareCode` | | Countersignatory must hold a valid GB photocard licence, be UK resident, know the applicant personally, not be a relative or housemate | `identityVerificationMethod = other_document_with_countersignatory`, `countersignatoryName`, `countersignatoryLicenceNumber` | ## What is NOT independently confirmed (out of scope) - **The full D1 form field list.** Only the medical-declaration gate (`medicalConditionDeclared`) is modelled; the specific notifiable conditions, the Part A/Part B branching, and any DVLA medical questionnaire are out of scope pending a review pass against an official DVLA-published field list (not a third-party form-filler summary). - **Applicant biographic detail beyond name and date of birth** — e.g. sex, place of birth, previous surname, National Insurance number, address — is not confirmed for this specific service and is **not modelled**, unlike the sibling renewal schema which had its applicant-detail fields drawn from a service the reviewer could partially read pre-login. `title` is included by analogy with that sibling and is flagged as **not independently re-confirmed** for the first-application service specifically (see its field `sourceRef`). - **Photo capture** (upload vs. reuse of an existing passport photo) is not modelled. The identity-verification sources describe *identity documents*, not a photo-capture step, and no source read during this pass confirmed whether/how a photograph is collected for a first application. A future minor version should add this once the online service's pre-login screens (or an official D1 scan) can be read directly. - **Licence categories applied for** (e.g. category B car, category A motorcycle) are not modelled; no source read during this pass stated whether the first-provisional application itself asks the applicant to select categories, or whether a provisional licence is issued with a fixed standard category set. - **The online service's authenticated screens.** Unlike `gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard`, whose `before-you-start` / `before-you-continue` pre-login screens were reachable at authoring time, the equivalent first-provisional start URL returned HTTP 404 when tried during this pass; no pre-login screen content could be read for this service. ## Scope and jurisdiction notes - **Great Britain residents only.** Like the sibling renewal schema, Northern Ireland has its own separate service; this document is GB-only (`jurisdiction.level: national`, matching the GB DVLA convention). - **First application only.** Renewal of an existing licence is out of scope here — see the already-published `gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard`. - **Fees are intentionally not encoded as amounts**, consistent with every other `gb/dvla/*` and `gb/hmpo/*` reference schema. The £34/£43 figures quoted above are qualitative context recorded in this file and in field descriptions, not authoritative validation data. - **Not time-versioned.** Applying GSP-0005 §2's coexistence test: this process does not encode a year-varying value, so this is a plain `v1.0.0` document, not an edition-axis schema. - Conditional requiredness (`identityVerificationMethod`-gated fields, `applicationChannel`-gated `email`) is expressed with `requiredWhen` (GSP-0013), not left to field-description prose, since this document targets spec v0.3. ## Path to a `verified` claim (next step) To advance to `status: verified`, a reviewer applies `manual-source-review-v1` Procedure step 2 field-by-field against the live authenticated online flow and an officially-sourced D1 form scan specifically, resolves the open items above (most importantly the medical-declaration detail and any missing biographic/photo fields) by shipping a **new schema version** if discrepancies are found (immutability — VERSIONING §3), and records the outcome here. ## Re-verification Per the practice's **Cadence**, `nextReviewBy` is set to **2027-01-01** (6 months). Re-check the source on or before that date and on any `source.url` change.