Identity verification
built for Latvia 
Latvian eID card, passport, and residence permit on one session — FKTK-aligned, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Latvia.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Latvian identity fraud: deepfake and injection attacks on the Riga fintech and crypto cluster, document forgery against the Latvian eID card and residence permit, and high AML scrutiny following the historic non-resident-banking restructuring of 2018 that left FKTK and the Latvijas Banka with reinforced supervisory expectations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Latvian AML Law (Noziedzīgi iegūtu līdzekļu legalizācijas un terorisma un proliferācijas finansēšanas novēršanas likums)
- AMLD6
- MiCA
- DORA
- GDPR / Personal Data Processing Law
- PSD2
- eIDAS 2.0
Who supervises identity verification in Latvia.
Latvijas Banka
Bank of Latvia. Following the 2023 merger with the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FKTK), Latvijas Banka supervises banks, payment institutions, electronic-money institutions, and crypto-asset service providers under the Latvian AML Law.
Finanšu Izlūkošanas Dienests
Latvian Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives every suspicious activity report under the Latvian AML Law.
DVI
Datu valsts inspekcija — Latvian Data State Inspectorate. GDPR supervisor under the Personal Data Processing Law for every identity verification on Latvian residents.
PMLP
Pilsonības un migrācijas lietu pārvalde — Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs. Issues every Latvian eID card and passport — the authoritative source behind Latvian identity verification.
SAB
Satversmes aizsardzības birojs — Constitution Protection Bureau. Latvia's internal security service. Maintains security watchlists and assessments relevant to AML/CFT obligations under the Latvian AML Law.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every primary Latvian credential — Personas apliecība (the eID card), Pase (with the chip read on e-Passports), Vadītāja apliecība, and the Uzturēšanās atļauja residence permit.
- Returns the name, personas kods (personal code), date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Personas apliecība (eID)
- Pase — chip read on e-Passport
- Vadītāja apliecība · Uzturēšanās atļauja
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 Latvian watchlists:
- Parliament of Latvia (Saeima) — PEP Level 1 register — Saeima members and senior legislative officials.
- Latvian SSR — PEP Level 3 register — regional Soviet-era institutional PEP entries carried forward.
- UR informācijas portāls — State-Invested Enterprise register — entities with state beneficial ownership from the Uzņēmumu reģistrs portal.
- Global Arbitration Review (Latvia) — State-Invested Person entries — persons with connections to state-owned entities.
- Financial Intelligence Service Latvia — Subjects of Sanctions — FID-administered sanctions list under the Latvian AML Law.
- Financial Intelligence Service Latvia — Frozen Economic Resources — asset-freeze designations.
- Latvijas Banka — Sanctions list — Bank of Latvia sanctions register.
- Latvia FCMC — operator warnings — Financial and Capital Market Commission market-conduct warnings.
- EU Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions — full AMLD6-aligned sanctions coverage.
- EU Consolidated List of Travel Bans — EU travel-restriction 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.
Verify the document end-to-end.
Latvia does not currently expose a public consumer government API for civil-registry lookups — no database validation service exists for the PMLP national population register.
- The eID card chip read validates the authentication certificate and pulls the cardholder data inline via the standard Identity Document Verification module.
- The passport NFC chip read returns the signed datagroups and validates the Public Key Directory chain.
- For the registry-side cross-check, Didit's KYB lookup against the Latvian Enterprise Register (Uzņēmumu reģistrs) resolves every Latvian company and surfaces the Ultimate Beneficial Owners — particularly relevant for high-AML-risk entity onboarding.
- A direct PMLP population-register authoritative-source lookup ships as GDPR-compliant data partners onboard — Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
Verify the document end-to-end — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Latvia document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Latvia.
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Common questions about Latvia.
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