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Kyrgyz ID Card and Passport captured on one session, screened against KGFIU and EAG watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Kyrgyzstan.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Kyrgyz identity fraud: mule-account attacks on the fast-growing mobile-banking and remittance sector, ID Card forgery exploiting the transition between older laminated and newer chip-enabled formats, and cross-border AML risk across the Central Asian remittance corridor to Russia and Kazakhstan. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law on Counteracting Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation (LCMLTFP) — amended 2022
  • Law on the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
  • Law on Banks and Banking Activity of the Kyrgyz Republic
  • Law on Personal Data 2017 (amended 2021)
  • EAG (Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism) — regional FATF-style body
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Kyrgyzstan.

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

    National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (Кыргыз Республикасынын Улуттук Банкы) — central bank and primary supervisor of commercial banks, payment operators, and microfinance institutions. Sets CDD/KYC requirements and AML/CFT implementing regulations for the financial sector.

  • KGFIU

    Kyrgyzstan Financial Intelligence Service (Кыргыз Республикасынын Финансылык чалгындоо кызматы) — Kyrgyzstan's Financial Intelligence Unit and AML/CFT authority. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Law on Counteracting Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation (LCMLTFP). Maintains the national sanctions list.

  • SRS

    State Registration Service under the Ministry of Justice — issues and maintains the national ID Card and biometric passport. Operates the civil registry and enforces identity-document regulations.

  • MIA

    Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic — law-enforcement authority maintaining the warnings register for wanted persons and persons of interest to domestic law enforcement.

  • NSC

    National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic — maintains demographic and population data registers. Classified as PEP Level 2 in the regulatory watchlist framework, reflecting oversight of sensitive statistical and census data.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Kyrgyzstan 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.

  • Kyrgyz National ID Card (Инсандык карта), Biometric Passport (NFC chip read on e-Passport), Driver's Licence, Temporary and Permanent Residence Permit.
  • Returns: full name, 14-digit INN personal identification number, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Kyrgyz National ID Card (Инсандык карта)
  • Kyrgyz Biometric Passport — NFC chip read
  • Driver's Licence · Residence Permit
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 Kyrgyzstan watchlists:

  • National Assembly of Kyrgyzstan (Jogorku Kenesh) — PEP Level 1 register for parliamentary members and senior government officials.
  • Zhogorku Kenesh (National Assembly) — PEP Level 2 register for additional legislative officials and state deputies.
  • National Statistical Committee (NSC) of Kyrgyzstan — PEP Level 2 register for senior data and statistical authority officials.
  • Kyrgyzstan Financial Intelligence Service (KGFIU) — SIP (State-Invested Persons) register maintained by the FIU.
  • Kyrgyzstan State Financial Intelligence Service — national sanctions list for designated terrorists and money-laundering targets.
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic — warnings register for law-enforcement targets and wanted persons.
  • EAG (Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering) — regional FATF-style body designations covering Central Asia.
  • APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering) — regional designations.
  • FATF — Financial Action Task Force global designations and high-risk jurisdictions.
  • UN Security Council — Consolidated Sanctions List.
  • OFAC SDN — U.S. Specially Designated Nationals list.
  • Interpol — Red Notices for internationally wanted persons.

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

Validate inputs against global identity infrastructure.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Kyrgyzstan currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the State Registration Service (SRS) civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Validate inputs against global identity infrastructure

Validate inputs against global identity infrastructure — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Kyrgyzstan 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 Kyrgyzstan.

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 Kyrgyzstan.

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