Identity verification
built for Colombia 
Cédula de Ciudadanía and Cédula de Extranjería on one session, cross-checked against the Registraduría with biometric face-match — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
Trusted by 2,000+ organizations worldwide.
How identity verification works in Colombia.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Colombian identity fraud: synthetic Cédulas riding the wave of fintech credit and Nequi / Daviplata wallet onboarding, document forgery across the legacy yellow Cédula and the new digital Cédula Digital formats, and remittance-corridor mule networks routing Venezuelan and Ecuadorian flows through Colombian fintechs. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- SARLAFT 4.0 (Circular Básica Jurídica)
- Ley 526/1999 (UIAF)
- Ley 1581/2012 (Datos Personales)
- Decreto 1377/2013
- Ley 2294/2023 (Ley de Fintech)
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Colombia.
SFC
Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia — prudential supervisor for banks, SEDPEs, fintech credit firms and securities markets. Owns the SARLAFT 4.0 framework.
UIAF
Unidad de Información y Análisis Financiero — Colombia's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operación Sospechosa under Ley 526/1999.
SIC
Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio — supervises Ley 1581/2012 (Datos Personales) and Decreto 1377/2013. Governs every identity verification on Colombian residents.
DIAN
Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales — tax and customs authority. Operates the NIT and tax-residency registries used in KYB and treasury onboarding.
Banco de la República
Central bank and prudential authority for foreign-exchange operations, payment systems and reserve management.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Cédula de Ciudadanía (yellow card and Cédula Digital), Cédula de Extranjería, Permiso por Protección Temporal (PPT), Pasaporte (with the chip read on e-Passports), and Licencia de Conducción.
- Returns the name, Cédula number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Cédula de Ciudadanía · Cédula Digital
- Cédula de Extranjería · Permiso por Protección Temporal (PPT)
- Pasaporte — chip read on e-Passport
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.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
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 Colombian regulatory watchlist (SFC Administrative and Final Sanctions, SIC, DIAN, Fiscalía General, Superintendencia de Economía Solidaria, Superintendencia de Puertos y Transporte, Rama Judicial, Contraloría de Santander, SECOP, AMV).
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Cross-check against the Registraduría.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The `col_cedula` check (
$0.20, no end-user consent required) is the fast provider-backed Cédula lookup —personal_number+document_typein, normalised identification fields out. - The `col_national_id` check (
$0.95, ~75% coverage, consent required) hits the Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil directly —first_name,last_name,date_of_birth,personal_numberin, full validation envelope out (name match score, DOB match, identification match).
Cross-check against the Registraduría — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Colombia document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Colombia.
Colombia — Cédula verification (provider-backed)
Source: Didit's Colombia identity verification provider. $0.20 per successful query. Coverage Provider-backed Cédula coverage.
Colombia National ID (Registraduría)
Source: Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil — authoritative civil registry. $0.95 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage ~75% of adult population.
AML lists screened in Colombia
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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Common questions about Colombia.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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