I know enough French to beg to differ with ventdusud as to how easy it is to get the license, or that you only have three months to do so. Maybe if you lived in France first. But coming from North America, other than the fact that I could use my You Ess passport as long as it was valid, I found it to be quite an ordeal. I could have saved myself a lot of trouble had I simply moved to Maldonado departamento first, for the exclusive purpose of getting a driver's license. Fortunately I wised up, after going through two other departamentos, three driving tests, two medical exams, and a particularly hard time in Canelones departamento, who claimed that, though I passed their written exam in Spanish without an interpreter, they thought I was too "nervous" to be allowed to pass the practical exam. I finally got my license in Maldonado two days before the one I had in the States was due to expire, which would have caused even bigger problems. The only thing I found harder or more time consuming than getting the driver's license, was getting permanent residence.