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Cédula de Identidad and Pasaporte on one session, cross-checked against the Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Uruguay.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Uruguayan identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Cédula attacks on the BCU-licensed EMI wallets (Prex, MiDinero, Bantotal-issued cards), Cédula document forgery across the legacy and current chip formats, and crypto onboarding pressure as BCU rolls out Ley 20.345 Virtual Asset Service Provider registration. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Ley 19.574 (PLA/FT)
  • Ley 18.331 (Datos Personales)
  • Ley 20.345 (Virtual Asset Service Providers)
  • BCU Recopilación de Normas (SSF)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Uruguay.

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

    Banco Central del Uruguay — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, EMIs and Virtual Asset Service Providers under Ley 20.345. Runs the Superintendencia de Servicios Financieros (SSF).

  • SENACLAFT

    Secretaría Nacional para la Lucha contra el Lavado de Activos y el Financiamiento del Terrorismo — Uruguay's Financial Intelligence Unit equivalent. Receives Reportes de Operación Sospechosa under Ley 19.574.

  • URCDP

    Unidad Reguladora y de Control de Datos Personales — Ley 18.331 (Datos Personales) supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Uruguayan residents.

  • DNIC

    Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil — civil-registry authority. Issues every Cédula de Identidad and serves as the authoritative-source database for identity verification.

  • JUTEP

    Junta de Transparencia y Ética Pública — the transparency and public-ethics authority. Maintains sworn asset declarations for every public official; screened as part of AML PEP verification under Ley 17.060.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Uruguay 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.

  • Cédula de Identidad (legacy and chip), Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros, Pasaporte (with the chip read on e-Passports), and driving licence.
  • Returns the name, Cédula number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
Read the docs
Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Cédula de Identidad
  • Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros
  • Pasaporte — chip read on e-Passport
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.
Read the docs
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 Uruguayan watchlists:

  • BCUSSF — Central Bank of Uruguay Superintendency of Financial Services (SIE) — BCU-SSF sanctions against supervised financial entities.
  • UYMI-SI — Ministry of Interior of Uruguay — Sentenced Individuals (SIP) — individuals sentenced by Uruguayan courts.
  • Parliament of Uruguay — PEP register — Senadores, Diputados and senior parliamentary officials.
  • Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining — Warnings — regulatory warnings from the MIEM.
  • SENACLAFT sanctions register — PLA/FT enforcement actions from Uruguay's AML secretariat.
  • Junta de Transparencia y Ética Pública (JUTEP) — Sworn Asset Declarations — public officials' sworn asset declarations cross-referenced for PEP status.

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

Read the docs
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

Cross-check against the DNIC.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Cédula check (ury_cedula, $0.20) is the authoritative-source lookup — hits the Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil for identification number, full name, and date-of-birth match. Returns a normalised match score on every field. No consent required.
  • One of the cheapest authoritative-source checks in LATAM — well-suited to high-volume EMI and crypto onboarding.
Read the docs
Stage 04Cross-check against the DNIC

Cross-check against the DNIC — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Uruguay 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 Uruguay.

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
FAQ

Common questions about Uruguay.

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