licensing question from expat

**23226** · 10th February 2006, 14:24

Gidday all,

I am a expat soon ( 6-9 months ) to return home and I figure I need to get more aware of the nz riding scene before I get home.

I will be heading back to auckland and want to be able to keep riding with the least hassle although I do have some challenges, primarily in the license department, I never sat my full in nz.

I received safety instruction in the US under the guises of the MSF and met the other testing requirements, vision test and additional state administered road safety tests.
I am licensed in the USA to ride a bike, but my NZ license doesnt have the endorsement.

Any experts know the NZ licensing authorities prior stance on a local license waiver of any kind based on the possesion of a deemed 'adequate' overseas license or safety program completion ?

If the likely answer is :
'no chance mate, begin rider training on provisional or its modern equivalent ' then I imagine a 250cc or under purchase will be mandatory for me

if I want to ride on the road legally.

Any useful advice or comments welcomed.

**sAsLEX** · 10th February 2006, 14:26

see here http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...hlight=license

**cousa1** · 10th February 2006, 14:32

I was in exactly the same position as you. I have a US car and motorcycle license and coming back to NZ my Kiwi one was just for a car. Now if you hold a US one you just have to sit the writen test and they convert it. The trick is that you already hold a kiwi one. When I asked questions to LTSA it just got to hard to convert. What I did in the end was ride around on my US license while I sat my kiwi bike license. You have one year from when you arrive in NZ that you are allowed to use your US license.