Identity verification
built for El Salvador 
DUI cross-checked against the RNPN civil registry in real time — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month, the only crypto-native economy with a Bitcoin legal-tender mandate.
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How identity verification works in El Salvador.
- Fraud landscape
- El Salvador's identity fraud landscape is shaped by DUI cloning for illicit wallet access, synthetic identities exploiting the Chivo onboarding flow, and remittance-corridor mule accounts bridging Bitcoin and USD corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Decreto 498/1998 — Ley Contra el Lavado de Dinero y de Activos (and reforms)
- Decreto Legislativo 57/2021 — Ley Bitcoin
- Ley de Bancos (Decreto 697/1999)
- Transparency Portal — Ley de Acceso a la Información Pública (LAIP)
- GAFILAT 40 Recommendations
- FATF Methodology 2022
Who supervises identity verification in El Salvador.
SSF
Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero — prudential supervisor for banks, cooperativas, fintech lenders, and insurance. Owns KYC onboarding requirements and AML supervision for the Salvadoran financial system.
UIF-FGR
Unidad de Investigación Financiera de la Fiscalía General de la República — El Salvador's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Sospechosas under the Ley Contra el Lavado de Dinero y de Activos (Decreto 498/1998).
BCR
Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador — central bank. Oversees the payment system, electronic-money operators, and provides guidance on both USD and Bitcoin legal-tender operations.
RNPN
Registro Nacional de las Personas Naturales — civil-registry authority. Issues the DUI and maintains the authoritative identity database queried by the `slv_dui` service.
IAIP
Instituto de Acceso a la Información Pública — data-protection and public-information supervisory body governing how personal data collected during digital onboarding is processed and disclosed.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the DUI.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Documento Único de Identidad (DUI, exactly 9 digits), Pasaporte (chip read on biometric passports), Carné de Residente, Licencia de Conducir, and Carné de Minoridad.
- Returns the name, DUI number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Documento Único de Identidad (DUI) — 9-digit number
- Pasaporte — chip read on biometric e-Passport
- Carné de Residente
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 Salvadoran watchlists.
- Transparency Portal — Government Ethics Tribunal — El Salvador official sanctions register
- El Salvador Crime Stoppers Most Wanted — law-enforcement warnings list
- The Maritime Executive — El Salvador adverse media (SIE)
- El Salvador Times — adverse media (SIP)
- UIF-FGR — Unidad de Investigación Financiera suspicious-entity list
- SSF — Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero administrative sanctions
- BCR — Banco Central de Reserva regulatory warnings
- GAFILAT — Group of Financial Action of Latin America mutual evaluations
- FATF — Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
- UN Security Council — consolidated sanctions list
- OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals
- Interpol — regional Central America red notices
Hits are scored by severity. Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, firing a webhook the moment a new hit appears — critical for Ley Contra el Lavado periodic-review obligations.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Cross-check against the RNPN civil registry.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The `slv_dui` check (
$0.20per successful query, no end-user consent required) hits the Registro Nacional de las Personas Naturales directly —document_number(exactly 9 digits) +date_of_birthin, normalised identification fields out:identification_number,full_name. - Document number must be exactly 9 digits; remove hyphens before sending.
Cross-check against the RNPN civil registry — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every El Salvador document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for El Salvador.
El Salvador — DUI verification (RNPN)
Source: Registro Nacional de las Personas Naturales (RNPN) — authoritative civil registry. $0.20 per successful query.
AML lists screened in El Salvador
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 El Salvador.
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