Identity verification
built for Laos 
Lao National ID and biometric passport on one session — face-matched against a live selfie, AML-screened across Bank of the Lao PDR watchlists and global sanctions lists. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Laos.
- Fraud landscape
- Laos faces cross-border identity fraud driven by high transaction volumes across the Thailand-Laos-China corridor, fraudulent National ID claims exploiting the ongoing digital-card rollout, and synthetic-ID attacks targeting the rapidly expanding mobile banking and payment sector. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2022
- Law on Commercial Banks 2022
- E-Commerce Law 2012
- Law on Electronic Transactions 2012
- APG Mutual Evaluation Framework
- FATF 40 Recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Laos.
BOL
Bank of the Lao PDR — central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers. Sets Customer Due Diligence and KYC requirements under the Law on Commercial Banks 2022 and the Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2022.
AMLIO
Anti-Money Laundering Intelligence Office — operates under BOL. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and oversees AML/CFT enforcement under the Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2022.
LSCO
Lao Securities Commission Office — supervises capital-market participants and securities dealers. Issues KYC compliance requirements for securities onboarding.
Ministry of Public Security
Issues the National Identity Card and maintains Laos' civil registration database through the General Department of Civil Registration — the authoritative identity data source for KYC flows.
Ministry of Technology and Communications
Governs digital service providers, fintech platforms, and electronic payment systems under the E-Commerce Law 2012. Enforces data-protection and cybersecurity requirements on identity-verification flows.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Identity Card (smart card), biometric passport (with NFC chip read), Family Registration Book (Somunsalat), and Driving Licence.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- National Identity Card — smart card format
- Biometric Passport — NFC chip read
- Family Registration Book (Somunsalat) · 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 Lao PDR watchlists:
- National Assembly of Laos — PEP Level 1 (members of the National Assembly).
- AMLIO Laos — Suspicious Transaction Reports register for obligated reporting entities.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global designations.
- OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) — US Treasury designations.
- EU Consolidated Sanctions List — European Union designated entities.
- UK HMT Sanctions List — His Majesty's Treasury financial sanctions.
- APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering) — mutual evaluation watchlist.
- FATF 40 Recommendations — high-risk jurisdiction monitoring.
- Interpol Notices — international law-enforcement alerts.
- Basel AML Index — country risk-scoring benchmark.
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.
Database validation for Lao identities.
- There is no public government database validation API for Laos currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the General Department of Civil Registration civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation for Lao identities — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Laos document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Laos.
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Common questions about Laos.
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