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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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

Common questions about Dominican Republic.

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 Dominican regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Three sit on top of every Dominican identity-verification flow:

  • Superintendencia de Bancos (SB), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, EMIs, payment institutions and savings-and-loan associations under the SB Reglamento de Prevención del Lavado de Activos and the broader Ley 155-17 framework.
  • Unidad de Análisis Financiero (UAF), Dominican Republic's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Sospechosas under Ley 155-17.
  • Ley 172-13 (Datos Personales), supervises how the verification data is captured, stored and disclosed.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all three at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Does Didit cross-check Dominican identities against the Junta Central Electoral?

Yes, via the `dom_cedula` Database Validation service (POST /v3/database-validation/ with services=dom_cedula).

  • Source: Junta Central Electoral (JCE), the authoritative Dominican civil registry and electoral authority.
  • Price: $0.05 per successful query, the cheapest authoritative-source check anywhere on the Didit catalogue.
  • Required inputs: personal_number (the Cédula, exactly 11 digits).
  • Returns: identification_number.
  • Consent: Not required. Purpose-built for the high-volume USD-DOP remittance corridor and digital-wallet onboarding flows.
Is Didit suitable for SB-licensed payment institutions on the USD-DOP remittance corridor?

Yes, and this is the highest-volume use case in the Dominican Republic. Remittance from the United States runs into the tens of billions of dollars annually, and every SB-supervised payment institution and EMI needs to satisfy Customer Due Diligence on every sender and receiver.

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • `dom_cedula` Database Validation against the Junta Central Electoral, $0.05 per successful query keeps unit economics tight even on small-dollar remittance.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Dominican regulatory watchlists.
  • IP Analysis ($0.03) to flag the US-side senders.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in the Dominican Republic?

5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.

  • Sign up at business.didit.me, grab an API key, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML + JCE Cédula cross-check, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into 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 Dominican Republic stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Dominican users?

Dominican Spanish, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Dominican users land on the Spanish flow by default. English is also live on the same flow for cross-border senders on the US-DR remittance corridor.

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 Dominican Republic verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check.
  • Passive Liveness, $0.10. Active Liveness, $0.15.
  • Face Match 1:1, $0.05. Face Search 1:N, free.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check. Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.
  • `dom_cedula` (JCE), $0.05 per successful query, the cheapest authoritative-source check on the platform.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Dominican Republic 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.

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