Identity verification
built for Myanmar (Burma) 
Myanmar National ID and biometric passport on one session — face-matched against a live selfie, AML-screened across Bank of Myanmar watchlists, OFAC SDN, and global sanctions lists. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Myanmar (Burma).
- Fraud landscape
- Myanmar faces elevated identity-fraud risk driven by a large unbanked population transitioning to mobile financial services, document-forgery attempts exploiting the dual NRC and newer biometric document formats, and cross-border flows with Thailand, China, and India creating synthetic-ID attack surfaces. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation — and applies the full OFAC SDN, UN Security Council, and EU Myanmar targeted-sanctions screening on every check.
- Compliance frameworks
- Anti-Money Laundering Law 2014
- Financial Institutions Law 2016
- Securities Exchange Law 2013
- Counter Terrorism Law 2014
- APG Mutual Evaluation Framework
- FATF 40 Recommendations
- OFAC Myanmar Targeted Sanctions (EO 14014)
Who supervises identity verification in Myanmar (Burma).
CBM
Central Bank of Myanmar — prudential supervisor for banks, licensed financial institutions, and mobile financial service providers. Issues KYC and Customer Due Diligence requirements under the Financial Institutions Law 2016.
Myanmar FIU
Myanmar Financial Intelligence Unit — operates under CBM. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and oversees AML/CFT enforcement under the Anti-Money Laundering Law 2014.
SECM
Securities and Exchange Commission of Myanmar — supervises capital-market participants, securities dealers, and investment companies under the Securities Exchange Law 2013.
GAD
General Administration Department under the Ministry of Home Affairs — issues the National Registration Card (NRC) and maintains Myanmar's population registry, the authoritative source for NRC-based identity verification.
OFAC / US Treasury
Office of Foreign Assets Control — maintains the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list which includes targeted Myanmar military entities and associated persons. Every Didit AML check screens against the full SDN list.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Registration Card (NRC, both laminate and biometric formats), biometric e-Passport (with NFC chip read), Temporary Registration Certificate (Form 7), and Driving Licence.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- National Registration Card (NRC) — laminate and biometric formats
- Biometric e-Passport — NFC chip read
- Temporary Registration Certificate (Form 7) · 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 Myanmar watchlists:
- Parliament of Myanmar (Burma) — PEP Level 1 (legislative assembly members).
- Myanmar Union Parliament (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw) — PEP Level 3 (parliamentary officials).
- Myanmar Treasure Resort Bagan — SIE (state-invested enterprise).
- Democratic Voice of Burma — SIP (state institution of public interest).
- Reporters Without Borders — Warnings (press freedom enforcement notices).
- OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) — US Treasury designations including Myanmar military entities under Executive Order 14014.
- EU Myanmar Targeted Sanctions — Council Regulation (EU) 2021/1229 designations on military-linked entities.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global designations.
- APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering) — mutual evaluation watchlist.
- FATF 40 Recommendations — high-risk jurisdiction monitoring.
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 Myanmar identities.
- There is no public government database validation API for Myanmar currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the General Administration Department (GAD) NRC registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation for Myanmar identities — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Myanmar (Burma) document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Myanmar (Burma).
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Common questions about Myanmar (Burma).
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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