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[quote=Anonymous]OP: This is not going to be country based. You need to do an interview which is indepth and very specific. You may lose candidates, but they probably can't drive.

In SA and Thailand, you can buy driver's licenses. International licenses are JUST TRANSLATION documents. They aren't actual licenses.

Ask, "How often do you drive?" 
"Where do you drive to?"
"Whose car do you drive?" 
"When you are driving for a long time, what type of music do you listen to?"

Be straight forward. Do you live in the suburbs where you have to drive a mile to the store because there are no sidewalks?  Are there stores she could get to by bike or on foot? Be very clear.

I see profiles often that say, "I am confident that I can drive on highways."

This is a great twist in resume language. I'm relatively confident I could renovate a house because I have watched Flip or Flop enough, but I wouldn't necessarily give me a sledge hammer and a wrench and expect it to end up being open house ready.

You are putting your children AND the financial health of your family into this person's hands when you give them the keys. People have been sued when their aupair has had a major accident and your insurance will reflect the fact you have an older teenager or a young adult covered.

We had aupairs drive our kids for the entire 6 years we hosted. All 4 of the them had minor accidents. In our experience, Germany and UK were the best drivers.  South Africa and Colombia were awful. Colombia nearly killed my husband on the initial test drive.

If they live in a city in Brazil, don't own a car and borrow their friends to practice, assume a mile here to college is how far they can walk because they don't realize it may snow and there are no sidewalks, I wouldn't give them the keys.  It's also a whole different skill to drive screaming kids. 
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