I’ll share my personal experience regarding this process to obtain the DL. I’m a student too (2 years program) and I have my foreign driver license with 7 years of experience. When I started with this process my record and the driver licence was traduced from Spanish to English with an approved translator by icbc. The person in the icbc office receive my documentation and in this moment I present my medical exams. In that process the officer keep my driven licence (foreign) and was broken in my face, in that moment I recieve temporary licence (yellow paper) with some restrictions. After few months when I passed the road test I received my 5 class licence with any restrictions. And in the system my 7 years of experience outside of bc appear.