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Latvian eID card, passport, and residence permit on one session, FKTK-aligned, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Latvia.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Latvian identity fraud: deepfake and injection attacks on the Riga fintech and crypto cluster, document forgery against the Latvian eID card and residence permit, and high AML scrutiny following the historic non-resident-banking restructuring of 2018 that left FKTK and the Latvijas Banka with reinforced supervisory expectations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Latvian AML Law (Noziedzīgi iegūtu līdzekļu legalizācijas un terorisma un proliferācijas finansēšanas novēršanas likums)
  • AMLD6
  • MiCA
  • DORA
  • GDPR / Personal Data Processing Law
  • PSD2
  • eIDAS 2.0
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Latvia.

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

    Bank of Latvia. Following the 2023 merger with the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FKTK), Latvijas Banka supervises banks, payment institutions, electronic-money institutions, and crypto-asset service providers under the Latvian AML Law.

  • Finanšu Izlūkošanas Dienests

    Latvian Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives every suspicious activity report under the Latvian AML Law.

  • DVI

    Datu valsts inspekcija, Latvian Data State Inspectorate. GDPR supervisor under the Personal Data Processing Law for every identity verification on Latvian residents.

  • PMLP

    Pilsonības un migrācijas lietu pārvalde, Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs. Issues every Latvian eID card and passport, the authoritative source behind Latvian identity verification.

  • SAB

    Satversmes aizsardzības birojs, Constitution Protection Bureau. Latvia's internal security service. Maintains security watchlists and assessments relevant to AML/CFT obligations under the Latvian AML Law.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Latvia 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.

  • Works for every primary Latvian credential, Personas apliecība (the eID card), Pase (with the chip read on e-Passports), Vadītāja apliecība, and the Uzturēšanās atļauja residence permit.
  • Returns the name, personas kods (personal code), date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Personas apliecība (eID)
  • Pase, chip read on e-Passport
  • Vadītāja apliecība · Uzturēšanās atļauja
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 Latvian watchlists:

  • Parliament of Latvia (Saeima), PEP Level 1 register, Saeima members and senior legislative officials.
  • Latvian SSR, PEP Level 3 register, regional Soviet-era institutional PEP entries carried forward.
  • UR informācijas portāls, State-Invested Enterprise register, entities with state beneficial ownership from the Uzņēmumu reģistrs portal.
  • Global Arbitration Review (Latvia), State-Invested Person entries, persons with connections to state-owned entities.
  • Financial Intelligence Service Latvia, Subjects of Sanctions, FID-administered sanctions list under the Latvian AML Law.
  • Financial Intelligence Service Latvia, Frozen Economic Resources, asset-freeze designations.
  • Latvijas Banka, Sanctions list, Bank of Latvia sanctions register.
  • Latvia FCMC, operator warnings, Financial and Capital Market Commission market-conduct warnings.
  • EU Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions, full AMLD6-aligned sanctions coverage.
  • EU Consolidated List of Travel Bans, EU travel-restriction register.

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

Verify the document end-to-end.

Latvia does not currently expose a public consumer government API for civil-registry lookups, no database validation service exists for the PMLP national population register.

  • The eID card chip read validates the authentication certificate and pulls the cardholder data inline via the standard Identity Document Verification module.
  • The passport NFC chip read returns the signed datagroups and validates the Public Key Directory chain.
  • For the registry-side cross-check, Didit's KYB lookup against the Latvian Enterprise Register (Uzņēmumu reģistrs) resolves every Latvian company and surfaces the Ultimate Beneficial Owners, particularly relevant for high-AML-risk entity onboarding.
  • A direct PMLP population-register authoritative-source lookup ships as GDPR-compliant data partners onboard, Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
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Stage 04Verify the document end-to-end

Verify the document end-to-end , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Latvia 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 Latvia.

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.
Read the security & compliance dossier
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 Latvia.

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 Latvian regulators sit on top of a digital onboarding flow?

Four supervisors sit on every Latvian identity-verification flow:

  • Latvijas Banka, Bank of Latvia. Following the 2023 merger with the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FKTK), Latvijas Banka sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, payment institutions, electronic-money institutions, and MiCA-licensed crypto-asset service providers under the Latvian AML Law, Latvia's transposition of AMLD6.
  • Finanšu Izlūkošanas Dienests, Latvia's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives every suspicious activity report.
  • DVI (Datu valsts inspekcija), Latvian Data State Inspectorate. GDPR supervisor under the Personal Data Processing Law.
  • PMLP (Pilsonības un migrācijas lietu pārvalde), Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs. Issues every Latvian eID card and passport.

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 cover the Latvian sanctions watchlists Latvijas Banka expects?

Yes, explicitly named in the Didit watchlist coverage:

  • Latvijas Banka, Sanctions list
  • Financial Intelligence Service Latvia, Subjects of Sanctions
  • Financial Intelligence Service Latvia, Frozen Economic Resources
  • Latvia Financial and Capital Market Commission, operator warnings
  • Parliament of Latvia (Saeima), PEP Level 1 register
  • UR informācijas portāls, State-Invested Enterprise register

All of these are screened on every AML check ($0.20 per check) alongside the global 1,300+ pool of sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media. Ongoing monitoring at $0.07 per user / year re-screens every customer daily.

Is Didit ready for MiCA-licensed Latvian crypto-asset service providers?

Yes. Latvijas Banka authorises crypto-asset service providers under MiCA with mandatory KYC + AML controls per the Latvian AML Law.

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • eID card / passport chip read for the document-grade authentication Latvijas Banka and the Finanšu Izlūkošanas Dienests expect.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global 1,300+ pool plus every Latvian regulatory watchlist named above and EU Consolidated Sanctions.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT) at $0.15 per check for the on-chain exposure assessment MiCA + Travel Rule require.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under the Latvian AML Law.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Latvia?

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 Latvia stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

Latvian, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Latvian users land on the Latvian flow by default. English and Russian are also live on the same flow for cross-border, expat, and Russian-speaking users.

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 Latvia verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check (includes eID card and passport chip read).
  • 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 Latvia 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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