"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c6pi9b$epu5h$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de...

> My wife managed to renew hers without doing the driving test. I can't
> remember if she did the written test. She just had to show proof that she
> was living in the states when her license expired.
>
> The husband of a friend here let his license expire, and so had to
re-test.
> Took him 3 tries.

Why the different outcomes? Your friend's husband didn't bow low enough?