If your driving licence is issued outside EEA and Switzerland, 1968 Vienna Convention or 1949 Geneva Convention, your licence is not valid in Estonia, and unfortunately, you can not exchange it. To get an Estonian driving licence you have to start from the beginning.

• Exams are usually not required for the EEA and Switzerland licenses and parties to the 1968 Vienna Convention.
• Exams are required for parties to the 1949 Geneva Convention.
• Exams are necessary if the driving licence expired more than 5 years ago.
• Exams are required if the driving licence or category was obtained while living in Estonia.

All the necessary information by countries can be found on the website of the Transport Administration.

A foreign driving licence is valid in Estonia, if

• it is in accordance with the 1968 Vienna or 1949 Geneva Convention, or a person can present a valid international driving permit (IDP) issued in accordance with the Convention;
• the entries on the driving licence are in Latin script, and the vehicle category is sufficiently described to understand which vehicle can be driven based on that category (maximum permissible mass for cars and trucks, maximum number of passengers for buses).

A foreign driving licence is not valid in Estonia, if

• it’s expired, the category is not sufficiently described, or the driving licence nor the category on it was issued while you lived in Estonia.

Please note that it may still be possible to exchange such a driving licence if issued by the EEA or Switzerland, as well as parties to the 1968 Vienna Convention or 1949 Geneva Convention.