Identity verification
built for Sri Lanka 
National Identity Card and biometric e-Passport on one session — face-matched against a live selfie, AML-screened across the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, global sanctions, and PEP registers. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Sri Lanka.
- Fraud landscape
- Sri Lanka faces three identity-fraud pressures: synthetic-NIC attacks exploiting the transition from the old 9-digit to the newer 12-digit National Identity Card format, document forgery on the older laminate NIC, and cross-border fraud involving the large Sri Lankan diaspora in the Middle East and Europe. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Financial Transactions Reporting Act No. 6 of 2006 (FTRA)
- Banking Act No. 30 of 1988
- Securities and Exchange Commission Act No. 19 of 2021
- Personal Data Protection Act No. 9 of 2022 (PDPA)
- Prevention of Money Laundering Act No. 5 of 2006 (PMLA)
- APG Mutual Evaluation Framework
- FATF 40 Recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Sri Lanka.
CBSL
Central Bank of Sri Lanka — prudential supervisor for licensed commercial banks, specialised banks, and licensed finance companies. Issues Customer Due Diligence and KYC requirements under the Banking Act No. 30 of 1988.
FIU-Sri Lanka
Financial Intelligence Unit — operating within CBSL. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and oversees AML/CFT enforcement under the Financial Transactions Reporting Act No. 6 of 2006 (FTRA).
SEC-SL
Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka — supervises capital-market participants, broker-dealers, and collective investment schemes under the SEC Act No. 19 of 2021. Issues KYC compliance requirements and publishes Administrative Sanctions.
DRP
Department for Registration of Persons — issues the National Identity Card and maintains Sri Lanka's civil population registry. The authoritative identity data source for NIC-based verification flows.
Department of Immigration and Emigration
Issues biometric e-Passports and manages immigration records. Governs cross-border identity verification under the Immigrants and Emigrants Act and enforces the Personal Data Protection Act No. 9 of 2022 (PDPA) for identity data.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Identity Card (both 9-digit and 12-digit smart NIC formats), biometric e-Passport (with NFC chip read), Driving Licence, and Senior Citizen ID Card.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- National Identity Card (9-digit and 12-digit smart NIC)
- Biometric e-Passport — chip read
- Driving Licence · Senior Citizen ID Card
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 Sri Lankan watchlists:
- Parliament of Sri Lanka — PEP Level 1 (members of parliament).
- Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) — PEP Level 2 (legal officials).
- United National Party (UNP) — PEP Level 3 (major political party figures).
- United National Front (Sri Lanka) — PEP Level 3 (political coalition figures).
- Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) — PEP Level 3 (state enterprise officials).
- Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) — PEP Level 3 (port authority officials).
- Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) — PEP Level 3 (major political party figures).
- SEC-SL Administrative Sanctions — regulatory enforcement notices from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- UTHR(J), Sri Lanka — Warnings (human rights and civil-society 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.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Database validation for Sri Lankan identities.
- There is no public government database validation API for Sri Lanka currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Department for Registration of Persons (DRP) civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation for Sri Lankan identities — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Sri Lanka document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Sri Lanka.
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Common questions about Sri Lanka.
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