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Crossing Colombia-Ecuador border with international license
Hello guys,
A week from now I am leaving Colombia for Ecuador. I have a motorcycle that I bought here in Colombia and all the documents should be fine. However, there is a problem: I have an international license but I lost my Belgian motorcycle license. Will this get me into trouble at immigration? Will I be able to temporarily import my motorcycle into the country? I'm asking this because I wasn't able to rent a car in the US without showing both my international and Belgian license.
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Lost license in Colombia
Tijidecierck, We have crosse the Colombia- Ecuador border several times and I do not recall any request for driving license. The International license - is it a Pan American license or international license? Both are issued only if a valid State or Country license is provided and the issuing authority takes a photo copy of that license. I would contact the entity that issued your International license/Pan American license via e-mail and request a scan of your original license. You will have to provide the # on the international/Pan American license plus other ID.
Most officials in South America are accustomed to photo copes of documents. So once the scan from your international/Pan American issuer arrives, print it and voila you should be OK until your replacement license arrives from Belgium.
Also, at most periodic road stops by police, your international/Pan American license should suffice. Please verify that the countries you are traveling are listed inside the international/Pan American license - some international licenses do not cover all South American countries.
If you purchased your international/Pan American license from an American Automobile Association you might telephone the # on your AAA card and they can route you to the office where you purchased your international/Pan American license.
Also, never offer documents unless asked, and be very polite and do not mention the IMF under any circumstances.
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Thanks for the great response, very helpful.
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Hi.
Can you tell me more about how you bought the bike in Colombia ?
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i don´t have informations for columbia, i haven´t been there yet.
but if you go further south you may will need your european licence(the checkcard) to cross to peru.
they checked at the border and wrote the license number on the tip...the international licence doens´t have a number.
if it doesn´t work out for you...just try the next border station...it´s south america, everybody know the things right and everybody does it different
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# for international license
Pickypalla, I am looking at my international license right now and it has an individual # (num) in red on the cover upper right hand corner.
What international license are you referring to? Where did you purchase your international license?
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