I just received an e-mail saying I need to take a driving test. I'm from the US, have a valid license, and have only been in CH since July. I know I have a year to get my Swiss license. First, is this a legit letter? If so, then what's it all about? We just got a car a couple of weeks ago. That could be what triggered this. But I still don't know why I got it.

As it's .com and not .ch I'm thinking it might be spam of some sort. The web site just looks like a study guide type of thing.

Thanks..

Well the only people who can compel you to do this sort of thing are the Strassenverkehrsamt (Motor registry office / department of vehicles, etc). So, given that the the place you land up doesn't exactly look official, I think you can be sure it is spam.

I also suggest you remove your email address from that post, unless you want to turn your spam trickle into a flood... I don't know where else you use that email address, but if you've put it out in public on this forum before, then there's a good chance it was lifted from this forum to make that spam.

First and foremost if the cantonal Strassenverkehrsamt would want you to take the test again they'd send a letter by snail mail and NEVER via email,but you are responsible to ge the licence changed into a swiss one and it's not them who'll invite/remind you to do so.

Then,if it were from a swiss official office, it would always have the ending .ch in the website address,so you defo got spammed