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




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How identity verification works in Qatar.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Qatari identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the QCB-licensed digital banks and the QFC fintech licensees, QID and residence-credential misuse across the expatriate workforce, and AML pressure on energy-export-linked corporate flows and remittance corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AML/CFT Law 20/2019
- Personal Data Privacy Protection Law (PDPPL, Law 13/2016)
- QCB AML/CFT instructions
- QFCRA AML/CTF Rulebook
- QFMA AML/CFT Rules
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Qatar.
QCB
Qatar Central Bank — prudential supervisor for onshore banks, payment service providers, exchange houses, insurance firms, and the broader licensed financial sector. Sets remote-onboarding requirements through its AML/CFT instructions.
QFCRA
Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority — independent common-law regulator for firms operating inside the QFC free zone, with its own AML and data-protection regime.
QFMA
Qatar Financial Markets Authority — securities and capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and Qatar Stock Exchange-listed institutions.
QFIU
Qatar Financial Information Unit — receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AML/CFT Law 20/2019 and is the country's designated Financial Intelligence Unit.
NCSA
National Cyber Security Agency — administers the Personal Data Privacy Protection Law (PDPPL, Law 13/2016) — the Gulf's first comprehensive data-protection statute. Governs every identity verification on Qatari 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 Qatar actually presents — Qatar ID Card (QID — the authoritative 11-digit national identity card), the QID-format Residence Permit for foreign workers, GCC ID Cards under mutual recognition, Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and the Qatari driving licence.
- Returns the name, QID number, date of birth, nationality, and expiry.
- Qatar ID Card (QID) · 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 Qatari watchlists:
- Qatar Financial Information Unit (QFIU) — Suspicious Transaction Report watchlist.
- Qatar Central Bank (QCB) — regulatory enforcement and suspended-licence list.
- Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) — enforcement and restricted-persons list.
- Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA) — Special Interest Entity (SIE) list.
- Ministry of Interior National Counter Terrorism Committee Qatar — Sanction List.
- State Security Bureau Qatar — anti-terrorism designations.
- GCC PEP register — cross-member politically exposed persons.
- House of Representatives of Qatar — 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 the AML/CFT Law 20/2019 expects.
- Qatar does not currently expose a public consumer or government API for direct authoritative-registry lookups — the Ministry of Interior 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 Qatar document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Qatar.
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Common questions about Qatar.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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