Identity verification
built for Angola 
Bilhete de Identidade and Passport on one session, screened against UIF Angola sanctions lists and ESAAMLG regional watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Angola.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Angolan identity fraud: synthetic-BI and deepfake attacks targeting BNA-licensed mobile-banking and PayWay-connected fintech operators, Bilhete de Identidade forgery across legacy paper and current biometric formats, and AML pressure on oil-sector proceeds corridors and cross-border remittance flows under UIF designations and ESAAMLG mutual-evaluation requirements. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Lei n.º 34/11, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Law
- Lei n.º 12/15, Lei das Instituições Financeiras (Banking Law)
- BNA Instrutivo n.º 01/2021, Digital Onboarding
- Lei de Protecção de Dados Pessoais (LPDP)
- ESAAMLG, Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group standards
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Angola.
BNA
Banco Nacional de Angola, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, electronic-money issuers, payment service providers, and exchange bureaus under Lei n.º 12/15 (Banking Law) and Instrutivo n.º 01/2021 on digital onboarding.
UIF
Unidade de Informação Financeira, Angola's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Lei n.º 34/11 on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing and receives Comunicações de Operações Suspeitas from obliged entities.
ARSEG
Agência Angolana de Regulação e Supervisão de Seguros, insurance regulator. Sets digital-onboarding and KYC requirements for insurance companies and intermediaries operating in Angola.
ISCJ
Instituto de Supervisão e Controlo dos Jogos, gambling regulator. Supervises all gaming operators and sets identity-verification obligations for player onboarding.
MJDH / LPDP
Ministério da Justiça e dos Direitos Humanos, responsible for data-protection enforcement under the Lei de Protecção de Dados Pessoais. Governs how identity verification data on Angolan residents is captured, stored, and disclosed.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Bilhete de Identidade (14-digit BI number), Passaporte Angolano (with the chip read on e-Passports), Carta de Condução, Autorização de Residência for foreign nationals, Cédula Pessoal, and UNHCR travel documents for refugees.
- Returns the name, BI number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
- Bilhete de Identidade (BI)
- Passaporte Angolano, chip read on e-Passport
- Carta de Condução · Autorização de Residência · Cédula Pessoal
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.
Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every Angolan regulatory and ESAAMLG regional watchlist:
- Constitutional Court of Angola, PEP register, justices and senior constitutional-branch officials (PEP Level 1).
- British West Indies Guard Ship, Angola enforcement register, state defence and maritime enforcement officials (PEP Level 2).
- Atlético Petróleos de Luanda (Petro Atlético), state-enterprise officials, board members and senior officials of the state oil-sector sporting institution (PEP Level 3).
- National Bank of Angola, regulatory enforcement, BNA debarment and enforcement actions against licensed financial institutions (PEP Level 3).
- Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), political officials, ruling-party political PEPs (PEP Level 3).
- Banco Nacional de Angola, UIF sanctions list, UIF-level designations and regulatory enforcement under Lei n.º 34/11.
- Angola Police Wanted List, law-enforcement warning and fugitive register.
- UIF Angola, enforcement register, Comunicações de Operações Suspeitas and UIF designations.
- ESAAMLG, member-state designations, Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group regional watchlist.
- UN Security Council, Consolidated Sanctions List, global multilateral sanctions transposed by UIF Angola.
- OFAC SDN, Specially Designated Nationals List, US Treasury designations with Angola coverage.
- AU Commission, African Union sanctions registry, continental political and economic sanctions decisions.
- Interpol Africa, criminal-notice registry, cross-border wanted persons and criminal diffusions.
- Basel AML Index, Angola risk signals, country-level risk context updated annually.
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 the identity at scale.
Angola does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators, no public database validation API exists for the Serviço de Migração e Estrangeiros' Bilhete de Identidade register.
- The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative UIF- and LPDP-compliant path today: the 14-digit BI number is OCR-parsed from the document, the face is matched against the document portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Angolan regulatory and ESAAMLG regional watchlist.
- For phone, email, and address enrichment, pair the session with global Database Validation services that already work in Angola today.
- A direct SME authoritative-source lookup ships as BNA Instrutivo n.º 01/2021 and LPDP-compliant data partners onboard, Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
Cross-check the identity at scale , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Angola document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Angola.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Angola.
What does Didit ship?
Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:
- User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
- Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
- Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
- Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.
Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.
How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?
Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:
- Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
- Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
- Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
- User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
- Flexibility. One
/v3/Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there. - AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.
Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.
What does it cost? Is anything actually free?
500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.
Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.
Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.
Which Angolan regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Five sit on top of every Angolan identity-verification flow:
- Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA), prudential supervisor for banks, electronic-money issuers, payment service providers, and exchange bureaus under Lei n.º 12/15 (Banking Law) and BNA Instrutivo n.º 01/2021 on digital onboarding.
- Unidade de Informação Financeira (UIF), Angola's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Lei n.º 34/11 on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing and receives Comunicações de Operações Suspeitas from obliged entities.
- Agência Angolana de Regulação e Supervisão de Seguros (ARSEG), insurance regulator. Sets KYC requirements for insurance companies.
- Instituto de Supervisão e Controlo dos Jogos (ISCJ), gambling regulator. Supervises identity-verification obligations for player onboarding.
- Ministério da Justiça e dos Direitos Humanos (MJDH), enforces the Lei de Protecção de Dados Pessoais (LPDP). Governs how verification data on Angolan residents is captured, stored, and disclosed.
Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all five at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
Does Didit screen against the Angolan UIF sanctions lists and ESAAMLG watchlists?
Yes, on every AML Screening call.
- Didit screens names against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.
- Plus every Angolan and regional list UIF expects an obliged entity to monitor, Banco Nacional de Angola UIF sanctions list, Angola Police Wanted List, ESAAMLG Eastern and Southern Africa regional watchlist, and Constitutional Court PEP register.
- AML Screening costs
$0.20per check; Ongoing AML monitoring costs$0.07 per user / yearand re-checks every customer daily, what UIF-obliged institutions need for the periodic-review obligation under Lei n.º 34/11.
Does Didit support Angola's digital-onboarding framework under BNA Instrutivo n.º 01/2021?
Yes, the Didit stack maps directly onto BNA Instrutivo n.º 01/2021 requirements for digital customer onboarding.
- Identity Document Verification, BI (Bilhete de Identidade) capture, OCR-parse, and template-authenticity check. The 14-digit BI number is the universal citizen identifier BNA expects in every onboarding record.
- Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1, biometric confirmation that the person presenting the BI is real and matches the document portrait.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against every UIF, ESAAMLG, and UN Security Council watchlist the BNA and UIF expect.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under Lei n.º 34/11.
Same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON audit trail, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack, one stack, BNA Instrutivo-compliant out of the box.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Angola?
5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.
- Sign up at
business.didit.me, grab an API key, callPOST /v3/session/with aworkflow_idthat wires ID Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test. - Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.
The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Angola stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Angolan users?
Portuguese, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Angolan users land on the European Portuguese flow by default, with Angolan Portuguese localisation on the same layer.
The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture works in any language, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.
What does the Angola verification cost end-to-end?
Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:
- ID Verification,
$0.15per document check. - Passive Liveness,
$0.10. Active Liveness,$0.15. - Face Match 1:1,
$0.05. Face Search 1:N, free. - AML Screening,
$0.20per check. Ongoing AML,$0.07 per user / year.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Angola surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.