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Bilhete de Identidade and Passport on one session, screened against UIF Angola sanctions lists and ESAAMLG regional watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Angola.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Angolan identity fraud: synthetic-BI and deepfake attacks targeting BNA-licensed mobile-banking and PayWay-connected fintech operators, Bilhete de Identidade forgery across legacy paper and current biometric formats, and AML pressure on oil-sector proceeds corridors and cross-border remittance flows under UIF designations and ESAAMLG mutual-evaluation requirements. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Lei n.º 34/11 — Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Law
  • Lei n.º 12/15 — Lei das Instituições Financeiras (Banking Law)
  • BNA Instrutivo n.º 01/2021 — Digital Onboarding
  • Lei de Protecção de Dados Pessoais (LPDP)
  • ESAAMLG — Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group standards
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Angola.

These are the supervisors a Angola verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • BNA

    Banco Nacional de Angola — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, electronic-money issuers, payment service providers, and exchange bureaus under Lei n.º 12/15 (Banking Law) and Instrutivo n.º 01/2021 on digital onboarding.

  • UIF

    Unidade de Informação Financeira — Angola's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Lei n.º 34/11 on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing and receives Comunicações de Operações Suspeitas from obliged entities.

  • ARSEG

    Agência Angolana de Regulação e Supervisão de Seguros — insurance regulator. Sets digital-onboarding and KYC requirements for insurance companies and intermediaries operating in Angola.

  • ISCJ

    Instituto de Supervisão e Controlo dos Jogos — gambling regulator. Supervises all gaming operators and sets identity-verification obligations for player onboarding.

  • MJDH / LPDP

    Ministério da Justiça e dos Direitos Humanos — responsible for data-protection enforcement under the Lei de Protecção de Dados Pessoais. Governs how identity verification data on Angolan residents is captured, stored, and disclosed.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Angola database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Bilhete de Identidade (14-digit BI number), Passaporte Angolano (with the chip read on e-Passports), Carta de Condução, Autorização de Residência for foreign nationals, Cédula Pessoal, and UNHCR travel documents for refugees.
  • Returns the name, BI number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Bilhete de Identidade (BI)
  • Passaporte Angolano — chip read on e-Passport
  • Carta de Condução · Autorização de Residência · Cédula Pessoal
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every Angolan regulatory and ESAAMLG regional watchlist:

  • Constitutional Court of Angola — PEP register — justices and senior constitutional-branch officials (PEP Level 1).
  • British West Indies Guard Ship — Angola enforcement register — state defence and maritime enforcement officials (PEP Level 2).
  • Atlético Petróleos de Luanda (Petro Atlético) — state-enterprise officials — board members and senior officials of the state oil-sector sporting institution (PEP Level 3).
  • National Bank of Angola — regulatory enforcement — BNA debarment and enforcement actions against licensed financial institutions (PEP Level 3).
  • Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) — political officials — ruling-party political PEPs (PEP Level 3).
  • Banco Nacional de Angola — UIF sanctions list — UIF-level designations and regulatory enforcement under Lei n.º 34/11.
  • Angola Police Wanted List — law-enforcement warning and fugitive register.
  • UIF Angola — enforcement register — Comunicações de Operações Suspeitas and UIF designations.
  • ESAAMLG — member-state designations — Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group regional watchlist.
  • UN Security Council — Consolidated Sanctions List — global multilateral sanctions transposed by UIF Angola.
  • OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals List — US Treasury designations with Angola coverage.
  • AU Commission — African Union sanctions registry — continental political and economic sanctions decisions.
  • Interpol Africa — criminal-notice registry — cross-border wanted persons and criminal diffusions.
  • Basel AML Index — Angola risk signals — country-level risk context updated annually.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check the identity at scale.

Angola does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators — no public database validation API exists for the Serviço de Migração e Estrangeiros' Bilhete de Identidade register.

  • The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative UIF- and LPDP-compliant path today: the 14-digit BI number is OCR-parsed from the document, the face is matched against the document portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Angolan regulatory and ESAAMLG regional watchlist.
  • For phone, email, and address enrichment, pair the session with global Database Validation services that already work in Angola today.
  • A direct SME authoritative-source lookup ships as BNA Instrutivo n.º 01/2021 and LPDP-compliant data partners onboard — Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
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Stage 04Cross-check the identity at scale

Cross-check the identity at scale — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Angola document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Angola.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
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