How can I find out if my driver's license has been revoked?

Only in jokes does life appear in black and white. In reality, there are a lot of different nuances for almost every aspect. A driver's license is no exception - it is a misconception to think that it can either be present or absent. Having a document in hand does not mean that a person has the right to drive a vehicle.

The driver's license may be revoked, the driver may be deprived of his license, the document may be expired, lost, falsified, and a number of other unpleasant moments, the result of which is the same - such a person cannot drive a car.

Whether you need to check your information, or whether the goal is to find out whether another person was deprived of his rights (for example, when hired for a job), for this there is a simple, understandable and most importantly official way provided by the traffic police website. We’ll talk about how to gain the right to deprivation in this article.

Is it possible to find out whether my rights have been revoked or not?

This opportunity is provided. Moreover, the protection of personal data in this case is not relevant - you can get information about any person, or rather about his driver’s license. To do this, it is enough to know the rights parameters.

Attention! This method is not relevant for foreign rights.

Conventions and tolerances

It is immediately necessary to say about the various nuances of checking the driver's license. We will talk about the results (statuses) further in more detail, but here we will briefly point out possible errors:

• Information about whether the driver has been deprived of his license comes from the official database of the State Traffic Inspectorate, which is updated with a slight delay. If the rights were obtained / replaced / returned recently, then the correct result may only be available after a few days. If the information is not updated within a week, we can assume that an error has occurred.
• The series, number and date of issue of the certificate are used for the request. Based on them, the system “pulls” data about the full name. driver, and the final check is carried out based on this information. According to the traffic police, this can lead to erroneous results - the issuance of information of full namesakes. In this case, you must report a bug.

An error in the results is understood as both a direct message about an error / impossibility of data processing, and an obviously erroneous status of the computer.

Where can I find out the ID number by last name online?

You can find out the ID number by last name:

• Through paid Internet resources;
• By visiting the insurance company’s website, the driver can find out the required information in his personal account on the official website of the insurance company where the compulsory motor liability insurance was registered.
• Using the State Services portal, the user can enter personal data in advance into his personal account, including the VU number, and when he needs to find out the document number, he just needs to visit the Internet resource and authorize the account.

Traffic police website

The site does not provide the ability to find out the driver's license number by last name - to enter the site you need to indicate the number, series and date of issue of the driver's license.

But there is a potential way to find the information you need.

The website publishes information about traffic accidents with some information.

Thus, it is likely that you will be able to find out the driver's license number by last name.

Where can I find information about deprivation of the right to drive a vehicle?

All information is checked through the traffic police database. Access to them is provided both by the official website of this institution and by various unofficial intermediaries. Whose services are best to use? This is everyone's personal choice. However, we recommend using the service on the official portal of the State Traffic Inspectorate, because it is guaranteed to provide verified data.

We will consider the online verification method, but you need to understand that you can also obtain information by personally contacting the local traffic police department.

Online check of rights to deprivation using the traffic police database

It is very easy to check if you have the necessary information. It is much more difficult to understand the results obtained. Therefore, we will separately consider the chain of steps to obtain information, and below we will look in detail at the status of the responses.

To get results, you need:

1. Go to the traffic police portal.
2. In the “Services” menu, click on the “Driver Check” section.

3. There are only two fields on the page: “Series and number” and “Date of issue”. Fill them out. In this case, the series and number are entered in a row, without spaces, dashes, quotes, etc.
4. Click Request Review.

5. Wait for the results to load.

Nothing complicated yet. But don't rush to rejoice. Among the results obtained, there are quite clear ones: the date of issue of the license, their validity period, categories, date of birth of the owner.

If other data is not displayed, then everything is in order with the driver’s license: it is valid, no sanctions have been applied to the driver. If an additional message is displayed below, then there are some problems.

Results of checking rights through the traffic police website

The above information about the driver and his license may be displayed along with other results, but in some cases it may not appear at all - as a rule, this is due to an error. Let's clarify the situation for each status, and use the texts of such messages as headings.

The check failed

Pay very close attention to this result. First, check the correctness of the request and, if you are sure that the information was transmitted correctly, you should know that the driver’s license is invalid . Possible options:

• The VU is expired.
• Fake license (not registered in the traffic police database).
• New ones were received, but old ones were provided for testing.

In all these cases, driving a vehicle with such rights is prohibited.

The document is invalid or is wanted

This status means that there are problems with the VU and cannot be used. Common reasons:

• Previously, the driver himself announced the loss of the document.
• The license was canceled by the traffic police as a result of an inspection.

The last case is quite rare, because deprivation of rights without a trial by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is no longer allowed - this must be a court decision. However, this still happens, for example, if facts of falsification of accompanying documents, for example, medical certificates, are revealed.

A decision was made to deprive the right to drive a vehicle

Let us remind you that the procedure for deprivation of rights involves a court hearing, which makes a corresponding decision. However, the decision comes into force only 10 days from the date of issuance - time is given for the possibility of an appeal.

This status means that there is already a resolution (the trial has taken place and the decision to deprive the driver’s license has been made), but it has not yet entered into legal force.

The resolution on deprivation of the right to drive a vehicle has entered into legal force

This is a logical continuation of the previous status. In most cases, this means that 10 days have passed since the court decision, and now there is a stage at which the violator is obliged to hand over the driving license to the traffic police.

It is no longer possible to drive a vehicle with these rights, but the period of deprivation has not yet begun to count - this calculation starts from the moment the driver’s license is handed over or a statement about its loss is submitted.

The calculation of the period of deprivation of the right to drive has begun

The decree on deprivation of rights came into force, and the violating driver completed the necessary steps to transfer the driver’s license to the traffic police.

In this case, in addition to information about rights, information about the date of the decision and the period of deprivation of the driver's license will be shown. Of course, driving the vehicle during this period is impossible. However, the exact period of deprivation cannot be calculated by simply adding the specified period to the date of the decision. This is a more complex formula, which you can find out in this article.

Calculation of the period for deprivation of the right to drive a vehicle was interrupted

Part 2 of Article 32.7 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation precisely establishes that if the violator fails to fulfill his obligations to surrender his license to the traffic police, the calculation of the period of deprivation is suspended. This status indicates this case.

Driving the vehicle is impossible, because The resolution has entered into legal force, but until the VA is submitted, the calculation of the period of deprivation is interrupted.

Receipt of information about payment of a fine

This is a fairly new status - it was introduced only in 2021 - and, according to many, it has created some confusion. The bottom line is that a number of grounds for deprivation of rights imply the simultaneous presence of a fine. For example, in case of imprisonment for driving while intoxicated.

This result indicates that the required fine has been paid. However, it does not allow you to find out whether your license has been passed or not, i.e. the countdown of the time of deprivation has begun or is suspended. One thing is certain - the driver is deprived of his license and cannot drive the vehicle .

Conducting a traffic rules knowledge test

Another new status - 2021. The situation with him is more definite:

• Firstly, to return the driving license you must pass the traffic rules theory.
• Secondly, this can be done before the end of the sentence, after at least 50% of the period has passed.

Accordingly, this status means that:

1. The driver is deprived of his license.
2. The period of deprivation is counted.
3. Half of the punishment period has already passed.

Of course, driving vehicles during this time is prohibited.

As a result of the check, information about the specified driver's license was not found

This status brings us back to tolerances and conventions. Most often, it occurs when information about the driver’s license has not yet been updated in the traffic police database.

You just have to wait a few days. If the driving license is not new or the status has not changed within a week, you must contact the traffic police for clarification.

How to check the list of drivers deprived of a driver's license by last name?

It has already been mentioned that the driver is checked using his full name. . However, this information is pulled from the driver’s license specified during the search and is not entered directly into the request form.

In other words, no matter how the software checks for deprivation of rights, it is impossible to make a request by the driver’s last name .

The traffic police and other services do not provide such technical capabilities. If something similar is offered by small commercial intermediaries, it is most likely a scam. In this case, it is better to apply for PD protection.

Is it possible to check your license by last name using the traffic police database?

In order to check the authenticity of rights by last name, you need to come to the traffic police department and make a request. However, there is a high probability that employees of this government agency will ask for a compelling reason for this procedure.

You can find the traffic police database on the Internet and try to find a driver’s license yourself, but to do this, in addition to your last name, you need to know the following information:

• Full initials (last name, first name, patronymic),
• Date of birth
• The city in which the driver's license was obtained,
• Driver's license number,
• The date of its issue.

At the traffic police department, the request can be made from seven days to one month. If you do the same procedure yourself via the Internet, it will only take a few minutes. One name alone will not be enough to verify a document, since a huge number of users throughout the country can be identified.

How to find out a court decision to revoke a driver's license?

According to the statuses we talked about above. Three results will most accurately indicate this:

1. “The decision has been made...”, i.e. the trial took place and the decision on deprivation of rights was made, but has not yet entered into legal force (10 days have not passed or an appeal has been filed).
2. “The resolution has entered into force...”, i.e. 10 days have passed, and the right to drive the vehicle is no longer available.
3. “The calculation period has begun...”, i.e. the license has been surrendered, the period of punishment is taken into account.

You can indirectly understand the state of affairs by looking at some other statuses, but these are the ones that give the most complete picture.

Get your own driver's license from the traffic police database

The need to check yourself to see whether you have been deprived of your rights or not has arisen since September 2013. The fact is that amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (Code of Administrative Offenses) were adopted. And if previously a driver’s license was confiscated at the scene of the offense, now everything has become different. The situation of traffic violations was considered in court, and only after admitting guilt, a decision was made to deprive the driver of his rights. In addition, the motorist was given another 10 days to appeal the court decision. If he did not take advantage of this opportunity, then within 3 days he must take his rights to the traffic police inspectorate, to which the court entrusted the execution of the punishment.

Driver check. Results

In conclusion, we will summarize the statuses of the received verification responses for deprivation of military education in the form of a table. We will indicate briefly, but for complete information see the information above.

As you can see, only one status means that everything is in order with the VU. All the others, one way or another, indicate problems. If these or other situations need to be resolved quickly and professionally, you need to hire a competent auto lawyer. You can ask our specialists your first question completely free of charge - just post it through the form below.

Why is it necessary to check the VU?

First of all, you can check your license for authenticity and validity period. The check will allow you to promptly apply for a replacement license and avoid troubles with traffic police inspectors, who will certainly fine you if the license is expired.

If you have hired drivers, you can quickly check their licenses, existing restrictions and previously issued fines for violations. This will save you from unnecessary financial losses on paying fines for company employees.