Renew your Public Services Card

You can renew your Public Services Card online if:

• You have a Public Services Card that is due to expire in the next 90 days or which has already expired
• You are 18 years of age or over
• You live in any of the 32 counties of Ireland
• You have informed the Department about any change to your name since your last Public Services Card was issued

The photo must meet the same standards as that of a passport photograph. 

The photo must:

• Have a plain, light-coloured background (Patterned/panelled backgrounds are not acceptable).
• Have face and eyes fully visible with no glasses worn. Please look directly at the camera.
• Not be a photo of a photo.
• Have even lighting and no shadows.
• Have a plain facial expression and mouth closed.
• Your head should occupy 70-80% of the photograph.
• There should be at least a small margin between your head and the edge of the photo.
• Be in the original JPEG format (not compressed).
• Be in colour.
• Be 5MB or less.
• Be at least 450W x 600H pixels.
• Be in portrait format (3:4 ratio).

A 3:4 aspect ratio photo is one that is slightly taller than it is wide, such as a passport photograph. In terms of pixels, a photo with the dimensions; 600 pixels wide by 800 pixels in height (600 x 800), for example, would be a 3:4 ratio photograph.

Depending on your device you may have different apps or options available to you in order to crop your photo, if required, to the 3:4 aspect ratio.

Your photograph will appear on your Public Services Card. As a number of years have passed since your last card was issued, a new photograph is required that reflects your current appearance.

If your Public Services Card is lost, stolen or damaged, you should immediately contact the Public Services Card Helpdesk at 0818 837000

For more information on how the government stores personal information please visit Gov.ie SAFE registration.