Identity verification
built for Uruguay 
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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How identity verification works in Uruguay.
- 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
Who supervises identity verification in Uruguay.
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.
Four modules. One verification.
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.
- Cédula de Identidad
- Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros
- Pasaporte — chip read on e-Passport
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 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.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
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.
Cross-check against the DNIC — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Uruguay document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Uruguay.
Uruguay — CI verification
Source: Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil (DNIC). $0.20 per successful query.
AML lists screened in Uruguay
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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Common questions about Uruguay.
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