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Citizenship Certificate and biometric passport on one session — face-matched against a live selfie, AML-screened across Nepal Rastra Bank and global sanctions lists. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Nepal.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Nepal faces cross-border identity fraud driven by the large migrant-worker population transiting India, the Gulf, and Malaysia — fraudulent Citizenship Certificate claims, synthetic-ID attacks exploiting the dual paper-and-biometric issuance period, and document forgery on older laminate citizenship cards. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Asset (Money) Laundering Prevention Act 2008 (AMLA 2008) and 2014 Amendment
  • Banks and Financial Institutions Act 2017 (BAFIA 2017)
  • Individual Privacy Act 2075 (2018)
  • NRB Unified Directives on Customer Due Diligence
  • APG Mutual Evaluation Framework
  • FATF 40 Recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Nepal.

These are the supervisors a Nepal verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • NRB

    Nepal Rastra Bank — central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, development banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service operators. Issues Customer Due Diligence and KYC requirements under BAFIA 2017 and NRB Unified Directives.

  • DMLI

    Department of Money Laundering Investigation — Nepal's Financial Intelligence Unit under the Ministry of Finance. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and oversees AML enforcement under the Asset (Money) Laundering Prevention Act 2008 (AMLA 2008).

  • SEBON

    Securities Board of Nepal — supervises capital-market participants, broker-dealers, merchant banks, and collective investment schemes. Issues KYC compliance requirements for securities onboarding.

  • DONIDVR

    Department of National Identity Card and Vital Registration — issues the National Identity Card and maintains Nepal's civil registration database, which underpins digital identity verification flows.

  • Ministry of Home Affairs

    Oversees District Administration Offices that issue Citizenship Certificates — the authoritative identity document in Nepal — and enforces the Individual Privacy Act 2075 (2018) on personal data protection.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Nepal database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Citizenship Certificate (older paper and newer laminate formats), biometric passport (with chip read on e-Passports), National Identity Card, Driving Licence, and Voter ID Card.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, permanent address.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Citizenship Certificate (laminate and paper formats)
  • Biometric Passport — chip read on e-Passport
  • National Identity Card · Driving Licence · Voter ID
02 · Biometric

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.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Nepali watchlists:

  • National Assembly of Nepal — PEP Level 1 (upper-house members).
  • Nepal Electricity Authority — PEP Level 2 (state enterprise executives).
  • Ministry of Finance Nepal — PEP Level 2 (finance ministry senior officials).
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nepal — PEP Level 2 (foreign ministry senior officials).
  • Ministry of Home Affairs Nepal — PEP Level 2 (home ministry senior officials).
  • Ministry of Defense Nepal — PEP Level 2 (defense ministry officials).
  • Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration — PEP Level 2 (federal officials).
  • Chitwan National Park — SIP (state institution of public interest).
  • New Business Age-Fine — Warnings (regulatory enforcement notices).
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global designations.
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) — US Treasury designations.
  • APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering) — mutual evaluation watchlist.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Database validation for Nepali identities.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Nepal currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — Nepal's DONIDVR civil registry and NRB identity systems do not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Database validation for Nepali identities

Database validation for Nepali identities — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Nepal document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Nepal.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
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