Successful Renewal

As a driver, driver's license is very important especially when you are traveling in rural areas like here in Manila because most of the time there are sudden checkpoints while you are in the road. And with that, it is much of importance that your license is valid so that you can avoid extra charges or unnecessary circumstance while on travel.

My license will expire next month so I planned to renew my license this month so that when November comes I don't have a lot of things to do especially it's my birth month. So I asked my workmates whose done renewing there licenses and do some research on the internet on what are the processes and the things that I need to bring during renewal.

The first thing that you will do is take an Online Validation Examination (OVE) at the LTO Portal. The exam had only 25 questions and you need to score at least 50% on the examination so that you will pass. Here's the good thing in here, if you don't pass the exam you can redo it many times until you will pass it. If you pass the exam they will give you a certification to prove that you pass the test. That OVE Exam Certificate will be the only document that you will bring at any LTO Offices and especially your old driver's license.

I took the Online Validation Examination on October 17, 2022 and thanked God I passed after my first take of the exam but I ended up not going to LTO office because of the schedule that I have during that time. I have a lot of schedules and calls from the customers that's why I set aside that thing first.

After that day I didn't expect that I will finish my assigned schedules too early that's why I decided to finish my unfinished business. I traveled at exactly 2:00 PM from Tipas, Taguig City and arrived at Robinson's Cainta Junction at past 3:00 PM. I directly went to the LTO Office and they get my old driver's license but I forgot to print my OVE Certificate. Luckily there's a computer shop near that office but I paid 50 pesos for that one piece printed examination certificate, "grabe ang mahal." After they get all what they want, they told me that I may now proceed to the next process which is Medical Examination. After waiting for hours finally I'm already the one that being examined by the doctor. The only thing that the doctor did to us are only the eyesight testing if you have a poor eyesight or not. Luckily I get it all correct even my eyesight are literally blurry. I think I already need eyeglasses. I paid 600 pesos for that examination. After I get my medical documents I proceed next to the last process. I paid 586 pesos to the counter for the processing and the making of my new driver's license but before that they want me to put my all my fingers one by one on the scanner for the fingerprint scanning and few minutes after they released my new Driver's License.

After that we traveled back to our office because it's already past 5 PM but before that we stopped by at a market and bought chicken feet for our dinner.

And that's how I get my new drivers license. Moreover, I am very happy that I was able to acquire the 10 year validation of my license because I don't have any violations recorded at the LTO.

That ends my blog for today. Thank you for reading. Have a nice day ahead and God Bless.

-Rhed-