Identity verification
built for Guyana 
Guyana ID Card and Passport verified with biometric liveness and AML screening across 1,300+ global lists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month, built for the Caribbean's fastest-growing oil economy.
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How identity verification works in Guyana.
- Fraud landscape
- Guyana's rapidly expanding economy has attracted an uptick in synthetic-identity fraud targeting new fintech onboarding, cross-border identity fraud from Venezuela and Brazil remittance corridors, and PEP risk through the National Assembly and government-owned enterprise networks. The CANU wanted list adds a narcotics-enforcement dimension unique to the jurisdiction. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (as amended)
- Financial Institutions Act 1995 (as amended)
- Proceeds of Crime Act 2009
- Data Protection Act 2023
- CFATF Mutual Evaluation
- FATF Methodology 2022
Who supervises identity verification in Guyana.
Bank of Guyana
Central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, cambios, and money-services businesses. Sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009.
FIU Guyana
Financial Intelligence Unit of Guyana — receives suspicious-transaction reports and coordinates with CFATF on AML enforcement. Maintains the national financial-crime intelligence database.
CANU
Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit — maintains the wanted-persons list relevant to narcotics-related AML and fraud-screening flows. A key enforcement watchlist for Guyanese screening.
CFATF
Caribbean Financial Action Task Force — the FATF-style regional body. Guyana is a member and subject to mutual evaluation and follow-up under FATF methodology.
GRA
Guyana Revenue Authority — administers tax registration and the National Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) used in KYB and treasury-identity flows.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the National ID or Passport.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Registration Identity Card (NRIC), Passport (chip read on biometric passports), Work Permit, and Driving Licence.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
- National Registration Identity Card (NRIC)
- Passport — chip read on biometric e-Passport
- Work Permit
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 Guyana watchlists:
- National Assembly of Guyana — PEP Level 1 legislative register
- The Colorado Bar (Guyana) — SIP enforcement register
- Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) — wanted-persons warnings
- FIU Guyana — Financial Intelligence Unit enforcement list
- Bank of Guyana — administrative sanctions and regulatory actions
- CFATF — Caribbean Financial Action Task Force mutual evaluations
- FATF — Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
- UN Security Council — consolidated sanctions list
- OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals
- Interpol — Caribbean-region red notices
- FinCEN — Financial Crimes Enforcement Network advisories
- Basel AML Index — Guyana country risk tier
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.
Database validation against the General Registrar.
- There is no public government database validation API for Guyana currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the General Registrar's Office does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation against the General Registrar — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Guyana document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Guyana.
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Common questions about Guyana.
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