Registry entry

Ireland Adult Passport Renewal (Passport Online)

Renew an adult Irish passport (book or card) through the Department of Foreign Affairs' Passport Online service, the country's sole channel for this process. This document describes the renewal-eligibility gate, applicant and most-recent-passport details, photo and conditional document requirements, and the product/payment choice. It does not submit the application; the live ireland.ie source is always authoritative (see VERIFICATION.md).

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The latest published version of this schema is v1.1.0 — see the current reference page. Published versions are immutable; this page stays for agents pinned to ie/dfa/passport-renewal-adult@1.0.0.

Registry entry

ie/dfa/passport-renewal-adult

Jurisdiction
Ireland · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Department of Foreign Affairs, Passport Service

GovSchema spec v0.2

Authoritative source https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/passports/how-to-apply-for-a-passport/renew-adult-passport/

Machine access

Schema document
registry/ie/dfa/passport-renewal-adult/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/ie/dfa/passport-renewal-adult/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

14 fields across 4 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 through Passport Online

  • currentPassportExpiredMoreThan5YearsAgo boolean required

    If true, you are not eligible to renew through Passport Online and must apply as a first-time adult applicant instead (out of scope for this document; a witnessed application is required).

  • renewalBasis enum required

    expiring_within_12_months = expires within the next 12 months, or already expired less than 5 years ago — no need to send in your current passport; expiring_more_than_12_months_ahead = expiry is more than 12 months away — your current passport must be submitted with the application (see mostRecentPassportToBeSubmitted). Only meaningful when currentPassportExpiredMoreThan5YearsAgo is false.

    enum: expiring_within_12_months | expired_less_than_5_years_ago | expiring_more_than_12_months_ahead
  • mostRecentPassportToBeSubmitted boolean optional

    Required, and must be true, when renewalBasis is expiring_more_than_12_months_ahead: the current passport must be posted in with the application in that case. Not required for the other renewalBasis values.

Your details

  • lastName string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Must match the name on the current passport unless nameChangeDocument is provided.

    length: 1–100
  • firstNames string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–100
  • dateOfBirth date required

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

  • ppsNumber string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Leave blank if you do not have an Irish PPS number.

    length: 0–9
  • email string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Used for the application-status confirmation alerts sent throughout processing.

    length: 0–254

Your current passport

  • mostRecentPassportNumber string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The number printed on the passport being renewed. Exact format not yet independently confirmed against the live form; see VERIFICATION.md.

    length: 1–20
  • lostStolenOrDamaged enum required

    not_applicable = the passport is in your possession and undamaged; lost, stolen, or damaged = indicate this in the application; no additional witnessing is required for an online application, but supporting information may be requested.

    enum: not_applicable | lost | stolen | damaged
  • nameChangeDocument file optional

    Evidence of a name change (e.g. marriage or civil partnership certificate, deed poll), required only if the name on the current passport is not the applicant's current name. Provide as PDF, JPEG, or PNG.

Photo, product, and payment

  • photo file required

    Digital colour photo, at least 715 pixels wide and 951 pixels high, JPG/JPEG format, taken within the last 6 months, head to mid-torso, neutral expression, even lighting, from an approved Digital Photo Provider or equivalent.

  • productRequested enum required

    passport_book = standard 10-year passport book; passport_card = passport card (EU/EEA travel only).

    enum: passport_book | passport_card
  • paymentMethod enum required

    debit_or_credit_card is the only payment method Passport Online accepts. Current fees are published on the live source and are deliberately not encoded here.

    enum: debit_or_credit_card

Verification record

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

  • status: draft
  • verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
  • verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-01

The document was derived from the sources below, but the full field-by-field comparison the practice requires (confirming every published field, type, requiredness, and constraint against the live application screens — manual-source-review-v1 → Procedure step 2) has not been completed and recorded, because Passport Online (passportonline.ie) is an authenticated, JavaScript-driven application with no published field-by-field specification and no downloadable form to check against (see below). It therefore remains draft, not verified.

Source examined

Why no form. Ireland's paper APS1/APS2 passport application forms were discontinued for public download; since 1 December 2025 the Passport Service no longer accepts them, and forms are issued only case-by-case through the Passport Assist Service. Passport Online is now the sole channel for an eligible adult renewal. This mirrors gb/dvla/vehicle-tax: with no form or published field spec, the document is transcribed from GOV/DFA-adjacent guidance prose and third-party summaries rather than an independently captured screen flow.

What was confirmed against the source

  • Renewal eligibility window and routing, modelled as currentPassportExpiredMoreThan5YearsAgo and renewalBasis: a passport expired more than 5 years is a first-time application, not a renewal (out of scope here, per the same convention as gb/hmpo/passport-application-first-adult / us/dos/passport-application-ds11 being separate documents from their renewal siblings). Confirmed via citizensinformation.ie's "How to renew an Irish passport as an adult".
  • No witness/countersignatory required for a standard adult renewal (unlike first-time application) — confirmed and therefore correctly not modelled as a field, unlike us/dos/passport-application-ds11's witness-adjacent fields.
  • Lost/stolen/damaged declaration is answered inline in the online application, with no extra witnessing step for that path — modelled as lostStolenOrDamaged.
  • Photo specification (colour, ≥715×951px, JPG/JPEG, within 6 months, head to mid-torso) — confirmed via the iasservices.org.uk summary of the current DFA photo standard; not cross-checked against the live upload screen itself.
  • Fee and processing time facts were deliberately excluded from fields (per the same convention as us/dos/passport-renewal-ds82): standard online renewal is €75 (vs. €80 + €9.50 by post), simple online renewals take approximately 10 working days, complex ones approximately 15 working days. These change independently of the data model and are out of scope for fields; consumers should read them from the live source.

What is NOT yet independently verified

  • mostRecentPassportNumber format. Unlike US (6–9 alphanumeric) and UK (9 digits) passport numbers, the exact character length/pattern of an Irish passport number was not confirmed from an authoritative source in this pass. No pattern was encoded; only a generous maxLength bound.
  • Whether a mailing/delivery address is collected as a distinct field. Passport Online applicants renew from an online account and current guidance did not clearly state whether a full address is re-entered per application or carried from account/previous-passport data on file. No address fields are modelled in this version to avoid inventing an unconfirmed structure; this is the leading candidate gap for the next review pass.
  • ppsNumber exact format (maxLength: 9) reflects the general Irish PPSN format (7 digits + 1–2 letters) but was not cross-checked against the passport application screen specifically.
  • "Post Passport" (An Post-assisted) channel — an approximately 8-week post-office-assisted channel distinct from the direct Passport Online self-service flow — was noted in search results but not modelled; this document describes the direct Passport Online self-service application only.
  • The passport card eligibility/restrictions (e.g. EU/EEA-travel-only use) are noted in productRequested's description but not independently confirmed field-by-field.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance this document to status: verified, a reviewer with an active Passport Online account applies manual-source-review-v1 (Procedure step 2 field-by-field comparison against the live authenticated screens, step 3 flow comparison), resolves the open items above (address collection in particular), ships any resulting change as a new schema version per VERSIONING.md (immutability — never edit a published version), and records the outcome here with status: verified and a current verification.lastVerifiedAt/nextReviewBy. This v1.0.0 record stays as the authoring provenance.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months): passport renewal is a fee/policy-sensitive process, and this document in particular carries more open items than the DS-82/HMPO precedents. Re-check the source on or before that date and on any source.url change.

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

Independent and non-affiliated

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