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Identity verification
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Jamaican National ID and Passport verified with biometric liveness, AML screening including the Jamaica Constabulary Force watchlist, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Jamaica.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Jamaica faces identity fraud pressures from lottery-scam networks, cross-border remittance account fraud targeting diaspora corridors, and elevated PEP risk through the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority and Ministry of Agriculture networks. The Jamaica Constabulary Force missing-persons list provides a unique law-enforcement screening dimension for KYC due diligence. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Proceeds of Crime Act 2007 (POCA, as amended 2022)
  • Bank of Jamaica (Amendments) Act 2022
  • Financial Services Commission Act 2001
  • Data Protection Act 2020
  • CFATF Mutual Evaluation 2020 (follow-up ongoing)
  • FATF Methodology 2022
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Jamaica.

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

    Bank of Jamaica, central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, cambios, and money-services businesses. Sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2007 (POCA) and the Bank of Jamaica (Amendments) Act 2022.

  • FID

    Financial Investigations Division, Jamaica's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives suspicious-transaction reports under POCA 2007 and coordinates with CFATF and law enforcement on AML investigations.

  • FSC

    Financial Services Commission, supervises securities dealers, insurance companies, and collective-investment schemes. Applies POCA 2007 AML/CFT obligations to capital-market intermediaries.

  • CFATF

    Caribbean Financial Action Task Force, the FATF-style regional body. Jamaica is a member and subject to mutual evaluation and follow-up under FATF methodology.

  • JCF

    Jamaica Constabulary Force, national police service. Maintains the missing-persons and enforcement watchlists relevant to KYC fraud-prevention and AML screening flows.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Jamaica database cross-check, composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the NIDS Card, Passport, or Voter ID.

Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • NIDS Card, Passport (chip read on biometric passports), Voter's ID Card (EOJ), and Driver's Licence.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
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Stage 01Capture and read the NIDS Card, Passport, or Voter ID
  • NIDS Card, NIRA biometric national identity card
  • Passport, chip read on biometric e-Passport (PICA)
  • Voter's Identification Card (EOJ)
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 Jamaica watchlists:

  • Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority, PEP Level 1 register
  • Ministry of Agriculture Jamaica, PEP Level 2 register
  • Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), missing-persons and enforcement warnings
  • Financial Investigations Division (FID), suspicious-entity list
  • FSC Jamaica, Financial Services Commission regulatory warnings
  • BOJ, Bank of Jamaica administrative sanctions
  • Stamford Daily Voice, adverse media (SIP)
  • 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

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

Database validation against NIRA and EOJ.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Jamaica currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) and Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) do not currently offer public consumer APIs open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Database validation against NIRA and EOJ

Database validation against NIRA and EOJ , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Jamaica 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 Jamaica.

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 Jamaica.

What is Didit?

Didit is infrastructure for identity and fraud, the platform we wished existed when we were building products ourselves: open, flexible, and developer-friendly, so it works as a real part of your stack instead of a black box you integrate around.

One API covers verifying people (KYC, know your customer), verifying businesses (KYB, know your business), screening crypto wallets (KYT, know your transaction), and monitoring transactions in real time, on a stack built to be:

  • Fast, sub-2-second p99 on every session
  • Reliable, in production with 1,500+ companies across 220+ countries
  • Secure, SOC 2 Type 1, ISO 27001, GDPR-native, and formally attested by Spain's financial regulator as safer than verifying someone in person

The footprint underneath: 14,000+ document types in 48+ languages, 1,000+ data sources, and 200+ fraud signals on every session. The Didit infrastructure dynamically learns from every session and gets better every day.

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.

Which regulators govern identity verification for digital onboarding in Jamaica?

Five authorities sit on top of every Jamaican identity-verification flow:

  • Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, cambios, and money-services businesses. Sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2007 (POCA) and the Bank of Jamaica (Amendments) Act 2022.
  • Financial Investigations Division (FID), Jamaica's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives suspicious-transaction reports under POCA 2007.
  • Financial Services Commission (FSC), supervises securities dealers, insurance companies, and collective-investment schemes.
  • Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), the FATF-style regional body. Jamaica is subject to mutual evaluation and follow-up.
  • Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), national police service maintaining the enforcement watchlist relevant to KYC fraud-prevention flows.

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

Is Didit ready for BOJ-supervised KYC under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2007?

Yes. The Proceeds of Crime Act 2007 (POCA, as amended 2022) and the Bank of Jamaica (Amendments) Act 2022 require every BOJ-supervised institution, commercial bank, cambio, money-services business, to verify customer identity and screen for AML risk before onboarding.

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Jamaican watchlists, JCF enforcement list, FID suspicious-entity list, FSC warnings, BOJ sanctions.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the POCA 2007 periodic-review obligation.
Does Didit screen against the Jamaica Constabulary Force watchlist?

Yes, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) missing-persons and enforcement warnings list is included in every AML screening check. It is one of 1,300+ global sources screened in real time when you call POST /v3/session/ with the AML module enabled.

The JCF list is especially relevant for iGaming, fintech, and money-services operators in Jamaica, it captures individuals subject to active law-enforcement action. Hits are severity-scored and ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily.

How long does it take to integrate Didit for Jamaica?

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 + Passive 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.
  • 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 Jamaica stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

What does the Jamaica 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. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.

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