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Cédula de Identidad y Electoral and Pasaporte on one session, cross-checked against the Junta Central Electoral — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Dominican Republic.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Dominican identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Cédula attacks on the wave of digital wallets and SB-licensed payment institutions like Tpago, Cédula document forgery across the chip and legacy formats, and AML pressure from the high-volume USD-DOP remittance corridor with the United States. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Ley 155-17 (PLA/FT)
  • Ley 172-13 (Datos Personales)
  • Ley 249-17 Mercado de Valores
  • SB Reglamento de Prevención del Lavado de Activos
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Dominican Republic.

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

    Superintendencia de Bancos de la República Dominicana — prudential supervisor for banks, EMIs, payment institutions and savings-and-loan associations. Sets remote-onboarding rules under Reglamento de Prevención del Lavado de Activos.

  • SIMV

    Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores — securities and capital-market supervisor. Registers broker-dealers, investment funds and stock-exchange intermediaries.

  • UAF

    Unidad de Análisis Financiero — Dominican Republic's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Sospechosas under Ley 155-17.

  • JCE

    Junta Central Electoral — civil-registry and electoral authority. Issues every Cédula de Identidad y Electoral and serves as the authoritative-source database for identity verification.

  • Pro Consumidor

    Instituto Nacional de Protección de los Derechos del Consumidor — consumer-rights supervisor. Works alongside the data-protection regime under Ley 172-13.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Dominican Republic 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 y Electoral (chip and legacy), Carné de Residente, Pasaporte (with the chip read on e-Passports), and driving licence.
  • Returns the name, Cédula, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
Read the docs
Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Cédula de Identidad y Electoral
  • Carné de Residente
  • 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 Dominican watchlists:

  • Constitutional Court of Dominican Republic PEP register — constitutionally designated politically exposed persons.
  • DOSIMV — Dominican Stock Market Superintendence (SIE) — sanctions for irregularities in securities supervision.
  • National Telecommunications Commission PEP register — senior officials of the INDOTEL regulatory body.
  • UAF sanctions register — Unidad de Análisis Financiero designated entities under Ley 155-17.
  • Superintendencia de Bancos Reglamento de Prevención del Lavado de Activos register — bank-supervisor AML enforcement list.
  • Cámara de Cuentas — Sworn Asset Declarations — public-official asset disclosure for PEP due diligence.

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 Junta Central Electoral.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Cédula check (dom_cedula, $0.05) is the authoritative-source lookup — hits the Junta Central Electoral for identification-number validation. No consent required.
  • The cheapest authoritative-source check anywhere on the Didit catalogue — purpose-built for the high-volume USD-DOP remittance corridor and SB-supervised digital-wallet onboarding.
Read the docs
Stage 04Cross-check against the Junta Central Electoral

Cross-check against the Junta Central Electoral — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Dominican Republic 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 Dominican Republic.

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

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