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Middle East & Africa

Identity verification
built for Egypt Flag of Egypt

National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against EMLCU sanctions and Egyptian PEP registers, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Egypt.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Egyptian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-National-ID attacks targeting the country's mobile wallets and CBE-licensed payment service providers, National ID Card template forgery across the legacy paper and current chip-enabled formats, and AML pressure on remittance and cross-border stablecoin corridors under EMLCU sanctions and FRA's 2024 crypto-asset framework. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law No. 80 of 2002 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing
  • Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020 (PDPL)
  • Banking Law No. 194 of 2020
  • CBE Regulatory Sandbox and Digital-Onboarding Rules
  • FRA Crypto-Asset Framework (2024)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Egypt.

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

    Central Bank of Egypt, prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, electronic money issuers, and the mobile-wallet ecosystem under Banking Law No. 194 of 2020.

  • FRA

    Financial Regulatory Authority, non-banking financial supervisor. Covers capital markets, insurance, mortgage finance, and the 2024 crypto-asset framework.

  • EMLCU

    Egyptian Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Combating Unit, Egypt's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 80 of 2002 on Anti-Money Laundering and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.

  • PDPC

    Personal Data Protection Centre at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), enforces the Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020 (PDPL). Governs every identity verification on Egyptian residents.

  • CSD

    Civil Status Department (Ministry of Interior), issuer of the 14-digit National ID Card and the authoritative civil register for Egyptian citizens.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Egypt 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.

  • National ID Card (14-digit Bitaqat Al-Raqm Al-Qawmi), Egyptian Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driving Licence, and the foreign-resident residence-permit card.
  • Returns the name, 14-digit National ID Number, date of birth, governorate of issue, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • National ID Card (Bitaqat Al-Raqm Al-Qawmi)
  • Passport, chip read on e-Passport
  • Driving Licence · Foreign-Resident ID
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 Egyptian watchlists:

  • EMLCU, Lists of terrorist entities and domestic terrorists, Egypt's primary terror-financing designations under Law No. 80 of 2002.
  • EMLCU, Security Council lists, UN Security Council sanctions transposed by the Egyptian Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Combating Unit.
  • Egyptian Ministry of Justice, Special-Interest Persons, domestic enforcement and prosecutor designations.
  • House of Representatives, PEP register, Politically Exposed Persons at the parliamentary level.
  • Cabinet of Egypt, PEP register, ministers and senior executive-branch PEPs.
  • Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA), enforcement register, debarment and regulatory actions across non-banking financial entities.
  • Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), regulatory enforcement actions, CBE-level sanctions on banks and payment service providers.

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 the identity at scale.

Egypt does not currently expose a government-accessible consumer API for civil-registry lookups, no public database validation service exists for the Civil Status Department's 14-digit National ID register.

  • The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative EMLCU- and PDPC-compliant path today: the 14-digit National ID Number is OCR-parsed from the document, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Egyptian regulatory watchlist.
  • For phone / email / address enrichment, pair the session with global Database Validation services that already work in Egypt today.
  • A direct Civil Status Department authoritative-source lookup ships as CBE- and PDPC-compliant data partners onboard, Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
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Stage 04Cross-check the identity at scale

Cross-check the identity at scale , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Egypt 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 Egypt.

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 Egypt.

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 Egyptian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Egyptian identity-verification flow:

  • Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, electronic money issuers, and mobile-wallet operators under Banking Law No. 194 of 2020.
  • Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA), non-banking financial supervisor. Covers capital markets and the 2024 crypto-asset framework.
  • Egyptian Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Combating Unit (EMLCU), Egypt's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 80 of 2002 on Anti-Money Laundering and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
  • Personal Data Protection Centre (PDPC at MCIT), enforces the Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020 (PDPL). Governs how the verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all four 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 Egyptian EMLCU sanctions and terror-financing lists?

Yes, on every AML Screening call.

  • Didit screens names against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.
  • Plus every Egyptian national list EMLCU expects an obliged entity to monitor, EMLCU Lists of terrorist entities and domestic terrorists, EMLCU Security Council lists, Egyptian Ministry of Justice Special-Interest Persons, House of Representatives PEP register.
  • AML Screening costs $0.20 per check; Ongoing AML monitoring costs $0.07 per user / year and re-checks every customer daily, what EMLCU-obliged institutions need for the periodic-review obligation under Law No. 80 of 2002.
Does Didit cross-check Egyptian identities against the Civil Status Department?

The National ID Card is captured, OCR-parsed, and validated for template authenticity on every session, and Didit pairs that with biometric Face Match 1:1 against the document portrait and Active Liveness against deepfakes.

  • The Civil Status Department direct lookup runs through CBE- and PDPC-compliant data partners on Enterprise. Talk to sales to wire that into your workflow.
  • For the standard hosted KYC, the OCR + biometric + AML stack is what every CBE-licensed payment service provider, mobile-wallet operator, and FRA-supervised non-banking financial entity ships to production today.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Egypt?

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, 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 Egypt stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

Arabic, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages with full right-to-left support; Egyptian users land on the Arabic flow by default, and English is live on the same flow for cross-language teams.

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 Egypt 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.

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