Identity verification
built for Kuwait 
Civil ID, GCC ID and Passport on one session, screened against Kuwaiti regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Kuwait.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Kuwaiti identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the CBK-licensed digital banks and the CMA-registered crypto-asset service providers, Civil ID and residence-credential misuse across the expatriate workforce, and AML pressure on cross-border remittance corridors and energy-export-linked corporate flows. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AML Law 106/2013 and Executive Regulations
- Data Privacy Protection Regulation (CITRA)
- CBK Instructions on AML/CFT
- CMA Executive Bylaws — Module 15 (AML/CFT) and Module 18 (VASPs)
- CBK Regulatory Sandbox Framework
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Kuwait.
CBK
Central Bank of Kuwait — prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, exchange houses, and the broader licensed financial sector. Operates a Regulatory Sandbox for fintech experimentation.
CMA Kuwait
Capital Markets Authority of Kuwait — securities and capital-markets supervisor for the Boursa Kuwait exchange, and the supervisor of crypto-asset service providers under Module 18 of its Executive Bylaws.
KFIU
Kuwait Financial Intelligence Unit — receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under AML Law 106/2013 and its Executive Regulations.
PACI
Public Authority for Civil Information — operates the authoritative Kuwaiti civil registry and issues the Civil ID that underpins every onboarding flow.
CITRA
Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority — administers the Data Privacy Protection Regulation. Governs every identity verification on Kuwaiti residents.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every credential Kuwait actually presents — Kuwaiti Civil ID (the authoritative 12-digit PACI-issued credential), the Civil ID-format Residence Permit for foreign workers, GCC ID Cards under mutual recognition, Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and the Kuwaiti driving licence.
- Returns the name, Civil ID number, date of birth, nationality, and expiry.
- Kuwaiti Civil ID · Residence Permit
- GCC ID Card · Passport — chip read on e-Passport
- Driving Licence
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 Kuwaiti watchlists:
- Kuwait Financial Intelligence Unit (KFIU) — Suspicious Transaction Report watchlist.
- Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) — regulatory enforcement and suspended-licence list.
- Kuwait Capital Markets Authority (KWCMA) — Special Interest Persons (SIP) register.
- Kuwait Capital Markets Authority (KWCMA) — Restricted Persons warnings.
- Ministry of Interior (MOI) Kuwait — security blacklists and enforcement orders.
- State Security apparatus Kuwait — anti-terrorism designations.
- GCC PEP register — cross-member politically exposed persons.
- National Assembly of Kuwait — PEP Level 1 register.
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.
Bind every check to one audited session.
- The full bundle anchors at $0.33 per session — same price worldwide.
- Add Ongoing AML Monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation AML Law 106/2013 expects.
- Kuwait does not currently expose a public consumer or government API for direct authoritative-registry lookups — the PACI civil registry is accessible only through licensed data-partner integrations on Enterprise. Talk to sales to wire that into your workflow.
Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Kuwait document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Kuwait.
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Common questions about Kuwait.
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