Identity verification
built for Egypt 
National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against EMLCU sanctions and Egyptian PEP registers — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Egypt.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Egyptian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-National-ID attacks targeting the country's mobile wallets and CBE-licensed payment service providers, National ID Card template forgery across the legacy paper and current chip-enabled formats, and AML pressure on remittance and cross-border stablecoin corridors under EMLCU sanctions and FRA's 2024 crypto-asset framework. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law No. 80 of 2002 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing
- Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020 (PDPL)
- Banking Law No. 194 of 2020
- CBE Regulatory Sandbox and Digital-Onboarding Rules
- FRA Crypto-Asset Framework (2024)
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Egypt.
CBE
Central Bank of Egypt — prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, electronic money issuers, and the mobile-wallet ecosystem under Banking Law No. 194 of 2020.
FRA
Financial Regulatory Authority — non-banking financial supervisor. Covers capital markets, insurance, mortgage finance, and the 2024 crypto-asset framework.
EMLCU
Egyptian Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Combating Unit — Egypt's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 80 of 2002 on Anti-Money Laundering and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
PDPC
Personal Data Protection Centre at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) — enforces the Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020 (PDPL). Governs every identity verification on Egyptian residents.
CSD
Civil Status Department (Ministry of Interior) — issuer of the 14-digit National ID Card and the authoritative civil register for Egyptian citizens.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National ID Card (14-digit Bitaqat Al-Raqm Al-Qawmi), Egyptian Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driving Licence, and the foreign-resident residence-permit card.
- Returns the name, 14-digit National ID Number, date of birth, governorate of issue, sex, and expiry.
- National ID Card (Bitaqat Al-Raqm Al-Qawmi)
- Passport — chip read on e-Passport
- Driving Licence · Foreign-Resident ID
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.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Egyptian watchlists:
- EMLCU — Lists of terrorist entities and domestic terrorists — Egypt's primary terror-financing designations under Law No. 80 of 2002.
- EMLCU — Security Council lists — UN Security Council sanctions transposed by the Egyptian Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Combating Unit.
- Egyptian Ministry of Justice — Special-Interest Persons — domestic enforcement and prosecutor designations.
- House of Representatives — PEP register — Politically Exposed Persons at the parliamentary level.
- Cabinet of Egypt — PEP register — ministers and senior executive-branch PEPs.
- Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) — enforcement register — debarment and regulatory actions across non-banking financial entities.
- Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) — regulatory enforcement actions — CBE-level sanctions on banks and payment service providers.
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 the identity at scale.
Egypt does not currently expose a government-accessible consumer API for civil-registry lookups — no public database validation service exists for the Civil Status Department's 14-digit National ID register.
- The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative EMLCU- and PDPC-compliant path today: the 14-digit National ID Number is OCR-parsed from the document, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Egyptian regulatory watchlist.
- For phone / email / address enrichment, pair the session with global Database Validation services that already work in Egypt today.
- A direct Civil Status Department authoritative-source lookup ships as CBE- and PDPC-compliant data partners onboard — Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
Cross-check the identity at scale — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Egypt document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Egypt.
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Common questions about Egypt.
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