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I'm dealing with an issue with the DVLA regarding a driving offense from late November 2023, where I was caught driving without insurance due to my own negligence. I accepted liability and paid the fine by January 2024. However, I only received a letter in mid-July 2024 demanding that I surrender my driving license because I'm within the first two years of obtaining it, and accumulating points mandates the revocation. Due to the lack of communication from the DVLA, I dismissed the matter in my mind and assumed no further action was required.

This seven-month delay and lack of communication from the DVLA have caused me to question if it's possible to get the demand for my license to be revoked thrown out on procedural grounds.

If anyone has experienced similar delays with the DVLA or has advice on additional steps, handling the DVLA, or tips for appealing their decisions, your insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help.

Just checked and it has been applied.

There is no decision to appeal. DVLA have no say in the matter, they are simply implementing what the law mandates.

Indeed. Nobody "makes a decision" to revoke your licence. The law (New Drivers' Act 1995) says this:

"The Secretary of State must, in the case of a person to whom this subsection applies..., by notice served on the person revoke the person’s licence."

It applies to you because you accumulated six points within the "probationary period" (which is two years of passing your test).

This is not a judicial decision taken by a court (which may be subject to appeal). It is simply an administrative process carried out by the DVLA.

The good news is that you can immediately apply for a new provisional licence and begin driving (complying with the conditions of that licence) as soon  as you have it. More good news is that you can only suffer the consequences of the New Drivers' Act once, so the same thing cannot happen again.