Overview

Before your licence expires, you will receive the following in the mail:

  • a renewal application form
  • a letter explaining the steps required to renew

The letter and renewal application form will arrive up to 90 days before your licence expires.

If you will be out of Ontario when your licence expires, you can renew your driver’s licence as early as 180 days before it expires.

How to renew

Step 1: watch the educational video and review the Driver’s Handbook

Before renewing your licence:

Video transcript

Step 2: book an appointment

Once you receive your renewal application form and letter in the mail, you can book an appointment at a ServiceOntario centre either:

  • online

  • by calling 1-800-396-4233 (toll free) or 416-235-3579 (in the Greater Toronto area)

    Our Contact Centre hours of operation are from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding Statutory Holidays. 

Step 3: go to your appointment

What to bring:

  • driver’s licence (or temporary driver’s licence)
  • licence renewal application, if available
  • corrective eyeglasses or contact lenses you use for driving as well as any used for reading
  • hearing aids, if needed
  • original identification that shows your legal name, date of birth and signature if your licence has already expired

At the appointment

You will need to:

After the session, you may need to complete one or more of the following:

  • pass a road test
  • follow up with your doctor and submit medical information
  • provide additional vision information from a doctor or optometrist

If additional medical information is required, you will be notified by mail.

Step 4: pay your renewal fee

Pay a $36 renewal fee at ServiceOntario to renew your driver’s licence

Your new driver’s licence will be sent by mail in 4 to 6 weeks.

Vision test

A vision screener is used to assess your vision.

What you need

  • wear the eyeglasses or contact lenses you use for driving
  • bring your most current prescription eyeglasses

If you bring a vision report from an eye doctor indicating complete vision test results, no vision screening is needed at the session. The report must:

  • be signed or dated no more than 6 months before the session date
  • contain a measurement for acuity and peripheral

Please note that some reports will be sent for medical review and further processing.

Screening exercise

  • you will have 5 minutes to finish a brief, non-computerized assessment
  • it is a clock drawing exercise which measures a driver’s capacity to recognize and organize information
  • the assessment is not dependent on language and cannot be taken orally

Instructions

  1. Draw a large circle.
  2. Put all the numbers in to make it look like the face of a clock.
  3. Draw in the hands of the clock to set the time at ten minutes after eleven.
  4. Stop when completed. The form will be collected after five minutes.

Select a language below to see the instructions translated.

Other licence types

If you have an A, B, C, D or E, F class licence or have a Z endorsement, you must renew at a DriveTest centre, or you can downgrade to a G licence and renew as described above.

Contact us

For more information about the driver’s licence renewal process for seniors 80+, please contact ServiceOntario at: