Registry entry

Australia Adult Passport Renewal

Renewal of an adult Australian passport from within Australia through the Australian Passport Office's online application portal, printed and lodged at a participating Australia Post outlet. This document describes the eligibility conditions for renewal (as opposed to a new/first-time application), the applicant and contact-detail inputs, the current-passport and photo inputs, and the processing-speed and payment choices. It does not submit the application; the live passports.gov.au sources are always authoritative (see VERIFICATION.md). Applying from outside Australia is a separate process, out of scope here.

Registry entry

au/apo/passport-renewal-adult

Jurisdiction
Australia · national
Version
1.1.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Australian Passport Office, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

GovSchema spec v0.3

Authoritative source PC7

Machine access

Schema document
registry/au/apo/passport-renewal-adult/1.1.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

26 fields across 5 steps, read from the published schema.json — names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Check you can renew

  • issuedAgeSixteenOrOlder boolean required

    One of the conditions for renewing rather than applying for a new passport.

  • issuedOnOrAfterJan2006 boolean required

    One of the conditions for renewing rather than applying for a new passport.

  • issuedWithAtLeastTwoYearsValidity boolean required

    One of the conditions for renewing rather than applying for a new passport.

  • personalDetailsUnchanged boolean required

    Renewal requires your name, date of birth, place of birth, and gender to be unchanged since your current passport was issued. A change of any of these (e.g. by marriage, deed poll, or gender transition) means you must apply for a new passport instead, a separate process out of scope here.

  • passportNotLostStolenOrCancelled boolean required

    Must be false (not reported lost, stolen, or cancelled) to be eligible for renewal; you must also present this passport when you lodge your application. If it was lost, stolen, or cancelled, use the replacement passport process instead, out of scope here.

  • currentPassportStatus enum required

    current = still valid; expired = expired. Renewal is available in either case; APO's published eligibility criteria state no maximum time since expiry, unlike some other jurisdictions' online-renewal windows.

    enum: current | expired

Your details

  • surname string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Must match your current passport (see personalDetailsUnchanged).

    length: 1–100
  • givenNames string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Must match your current passport (see personalDetailsUnchanged).

    length: 1–100
  • dateOfBirth date required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Full date, YYYY-MM-DD.

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • placeOfBirthCity string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–80
  • placeOfBirthCountry string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Australia for most applicants; see identity-document requirements for applicants born outside Australia.

    length: 1–80
  • sex enum required

    Recorded in the 'Sex' field of an Australian passport. M = male, F = female, X = indeterminate/intersex/unspecified. Must match your current passport (see personalDetailsUnchanged); applying with a different marker than your current passport means you must apply for a new passport instead, out of scope here.

    enum: M | F | X

Contact and address

  • residentialAddressLine1 string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. This document covers applying from within Australia; a different process applies overseas, out of scope here.

    length: 1–120
  • residentialAddressLine2 string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 0–120
  • residentialSuburb string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–80
  • residentialState enum required

    Australian state or territory of residence.

    enum: 8 values
  • residentialPostcode string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    pattern
  • email string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Used for the AusPassport online account and for delivery notifications (email plus an SMS Registered Post tracking number).

    length: 0–254
  • phone string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. In international E.164 format, e.g. +61412345678.

    pattern

Your current passport

  • currentPassportNumber string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The passport you are renewing; you must present it when you lodge your application, and it will generally be cancelled at lodgement.

    patternclassification: sensitive-pii
  • currentPassportIssueDate date required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Full date, YYYY-MM-DD. Used to confirm the issuedOnOrAfterJan2006 and issuedWithAtLeastTwoYearsValidity eligibility conditions.

  • currentPassportExpiryDate date required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Full date, YYYY-MM-DD. Used to confirm the currentPassportStatus and issuedWithAtLeastTwoYearsValidity eligibility conditions.

  • photo file required

    2 identical printed colour passport photos meeting APO's photo guidelines: 35-40mm wide, 45-50mm high, face (chin to crown) 32-36mm, less than 6 months old, plain white or light background, neutral expression, no glasses (absent a medical exemption). Write your full name in black pen on the back of one photo. This field models the printed photos that accompany the lodged form, not a digital upload.

Passport validity, processing speed, and payment

  • passportValidityRequested enum required

    ten_year = standard 10-year validity passport, available to all eligible applicants; five_year = optional 5-year validity passport at a reduced fee, available only to applicants aged 75 or over. Confirm current fees on the live source.

    enum: ten_year | five_year
  • processingSpeed enum required

    standard = routine processing, at least 6 weeks from lodgement; priority = Priority service, processed within 2 business days of receipt, for an additional fee; fast_track = Fast Track service, processed within 5 business days of receipt, for an additional fee. Priority and Fast Track require a complete application and exclude postage/delivery time. Confirm current fees on the live source.

    enum: standard | priority | fast_track
  • paymentMethod enum required

    Paid when you lodge your application at Australia Post. eftpos = EFTPOS; mastercard = MasterCard; visa = Visa; amex = American Express; cash = cash. Confirm the current fee on the live source.

    enum: eftpos | mastercard | visa | amex | cash

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Independent and non-affiliated

GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by Australian Passport Office, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.