Apply for or renew a Blue Badge

Individuals and support organisations can apply for or renew a Blue Badge online or by post. With your application form, you must also include the right fee, photograph and supporting documents.

Ways to apply for or renew a Blue Badge

In Northern Ireland you can apply for or renew a Blue Badge online or by post.

It is recommended that, where possible, you should apply online.

Online

You can apply for a badge or renew an existing badge online at the following page:

Download an application form

If you are renewing your Blue Badge and have received a renewal letter/ email with a reference number ending NFR, download the application form for renewals at the link below.

If you are a new applicant or are renewing your Blue Badge and have received a renewal letter/ email with a reference number not ending with NFR, download the application form for new applications and guidance notes:

If you are a support organisation, download the following application form:

Ask for an application form

You can ask for an application form by contacting the Blue Badge Unit.

What you need to send with your application

Photograph or logo

Individual applicants must send one recent photograph which you should sign on the back. It should be a colour passport-type photograph (head and shoulders) or any suitable photograph cut down to 45mm in height and 35mm in width.

Your photograph will not be on display when the badge is used in the vehicle.

Support organisations

If your organisation has a logo, this can be printed on the Blue Badge, however this is optional.

Documents

This only applies if you are a new applicant or are renewing your Blue Badge and have received a renewal letter/ email with a reference number not ending with NFR.

If you are applying under section B of the application form, you must include the following:

PIP – Statement of Entitlement detailing the points awarded
DLA - Letter of award
War Pension Mobility Supplement – Letter of Entitlement
Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation) Scheme – Letter of Confirmation from SPVA
Registered Blind – Certificate of Registration or Letter issued by a Health and Social Care Trust

Fee

The Blue Badge fee is £10.00.

Support organisations will be charged £10.00 for each vehicle they register.

Cheques or postal orders should be made payable to the Department for Infrastructure.

Do not send cash through the post.

If you are applying online, you must pay by credit or debit card.

Finished forms

If applying by post, filled-in application forms should be sent to the Blue Badge Unit.

Incomplete forms will be returned.

If more information to support your application is needed, you will be told.

Finding out if your application is successful

You should be told the outcome of your application within six to eight weeks.

If more information to support your application is needed, such as referral to your GP, it may take longer.

Successful applications

If your application is successful you will be issued with a blue badge pack containing:

a letter of issue
your badge
a time clock
guidance notes outlining your rights and responsibilities for using the badge

Unsuccessful applications

If your application is unsuccessful:

you will be told in writing of the reason you are not eligible
your fee will be refunded
you can ask to have you application reassessed if you don’t think all the information you gave was taken into account
you can reapply if your mobility problems become more serious or you become automatically entitled - see Section B of the application form