After six months without a car, we are now back on four wheels. Let’s discover the Quebec road and its wonderful landscape !

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We can say that our administrative immigration is over for the moment. We received our Permanent Resident card which allows us to go out and go back to Canada territory for the next 5 years. Next step, in 3 years for the citizenship !

As indicated in the title, we received by post our Quebec driving license. For safety measure, we won’t publish a picture f our own license as they are official document to prove our identity.

Here is a specimen :

Quebec Driving License

It’s not bigger than a credit card, which is more convenient in the wallet! Each driving license shall be renewed at your birthday and costs +/- 80$. If you get a fine and loose points, you’ll have to pay a premium during 2 years at each renewal… be careful!

Now, we need a car!

Last week we booked an appointment with the SAAQ to proceed to the exchange of our French driving license against a Quebec driving license. In fact it is not really a trade because at the end we keep our French driving license.

The operation looks like that the RAMQ, you get a ticket and you wait that your number appears on the big screen. In order to obtain the driving license we needed to provide our passport, our French driving license, the permanent resident card (or confirmation) and the selection certificate Quebec.

After these checks, we obtained a temporary driving license for 20 days, the time we receive by mail the permanent.

That’s it, after two months of waiting it is the big day. Our personal will be delivered, but will they be all here? Without breaking? Given the ton of paper the movers put in the boxes, I doubt it.

At the scheduled time, the removal company arrived and the boxes parade started. We had to pay a premium because we are not on the ground floor but the Dublin removal company had been warned before.

We signed some papers and started unpacking. All the boxes are there anyway.

After unpacking during the whole day we are satisfied with the service since nothing is broken and nothing is missing! I recommend!

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