IDENTITY VERIFICATION

Verify government IDs around the world

Collect and verify users’ identity and age using your choice of government-issued IDs across 200+ countries and territories.

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Government ID

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International coverage
Verify hundreds of unique government IDs, such as passports and driver’s licenses, across 200+ countries and territories.
Catch fraudsters’ expertly doctored IDs
Automate detection of … and more.
Expedite pass rates with customized data extraction and classification
Convert good users faster with configurable and automated ID classification and data extraction for expiration dates, minimum age requirements, barcode capture, glare and blur detection, and more.
Fully Automated
Complete verifications in just 5-10 seconds on average so users can be verified quickly and be on their way.

Verify more users with global coverage

International coverage
Verify hundreds of unique government IDs, such as passports and driver’s licenses, across 200+ countries and territories.
Catch expertly doctored IDs
Detect bad actors with capture methods and verification checks that can be configured to meet your business’s fraud detection and prevention needs.
Increase pass rates
Convert good users faster with automated ID classification and data extraction for expiration dates, barcode capture, and more.
Fully automated decisions
Most decisions take just 5 seconds, so users can get verified quickly and be on their way.
Government id

How it works

Build your collection flow

Configure your collection flow logic, including allowed devices and capture methods, to collect documents that meet your image quality standards.

How it works

Automatically collect and extract IDs

Prompt users to submit their government-issued ID through a user-guided flow where data is automatically extracted to verify its authenticity. Configure your flow to accept IDs with different formats and from a specific set of countries.

How it works

Verify users’ identities

Users are automatically accepted, declined, or routed to manual review based on your custom business logic — never left in the dark.
Government id

How it works

Build your collection flow

Configure your collection flow logic, including allowed devices and capture methods, to collect documents that meet your image quality standards.

Automatically collect and extract IDs

Prompt users to submit their government-issued ID through a user-guided flow where data is automatically extracted to verify its authenticity. Configure your flow to accept IDs with different formats and from a specific set of countries.

Verify users’ identities

Users are automatically accepted, declined, or routed to manual review based on your custom business logic — never left in the dark.

Key benefits

Persona's best-in-class technology allows users to submit government-issued documents while providing a seamless user experience, no matter what device they're using.
User guidance for higher capture quality
Glare and blur detection
Barcode capture and analysis
Front and back information comparison
Automatic comparison to selfie, when available
Device and behavioral signals
Available across any device
Configurable number of attempts
Extraction & PII comparison to existing account info
Fallback verification methods
Heuristic checks
Configurable match requirements

How others use government ID verification

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KYC Compliance
Enhance your KYC compliance process by verifying the legitimacy of an individual’s government ID.
KYC Compliance
Enhance your KYC compliance process by verifying the legitimacy of an individual’s government ID.
Identity verification
Verify an individual’s identity by verifying their government ID. Increase confidence by requesting a live Selfie and matching it against the ID portrait.
Age Verification
Verify an individual’s age by extracting the DOB from their government ID. Increase confidence by requesting a live Selfie and matching it against the ID portrait.
Verifying identities is challenging. Between false IDs, bad actors, and a lack of standardization, it requires a technical solution. With Persona, we can check government IDs and selfie liveness in real time to make sure users are the right age and cross reference multiple risk signals to help us figure out whether to approve or decline users.
JJ Foster
Trust and safety manager, Coffee Meets Bagel

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