Identity verification
built for Maldives 
Maldivian National ID and biometric passport on one session — face-matched against a live selfie, AML-screened across Maldives Monetary Authority watchlists and global sanctions lists. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Maldives.
- Fraud landscape
- The Maldives faces identity-fraud pressures driven by the archipelago's large tourism and hospitality sector — fraudulent foreign-national identity claims, synthetic-ID attacks exploiting the seasonal influx of migrant workers, and cross-border document forgery via the India-Sri Lanka-Maldives trade corridor. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act (Law No. 4/2014)
- Banking Act (Law No. 24/2010)
- Maldives Monetary Authority Act (Law No. 6/81)
- Maldives Securities Act
- APG Mutual Evaluation Framework
- FATF 40 Recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Maldives.
MMA
Maldives Monetary Authority — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, financial institutions, money service businesses, and payment service providers. Issues Customer Due Diligence requirements under the Banking Act (Law No. 24/2010).
FIU-Maldives
Financial Intelligence Unit — operates under MMA. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and enforces AML/CFT controls under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act (Law No. 4/2014).
CMDA
Capital Market Development Authority — supervises capital-market participants, securities dealers, and investment companies under the Maldives Securities Act.
Department of National Registration
Issues the National Identity Card and maintains the Maldives' civil population registry — the authoritative source for NIC-based identity verification.
Ministry of Home Affairs and Land
Oversees the Department of National Registration and the Department of Immigration. Enforces data-protection requirements on identity-verification flows under Maldivian law.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Identity Card (biometric smart card), biometric passport (with NFC chip read), Work Permit / Employment Visa, and Driving Licence.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- National Identity Card — biometric smart card
- Biometric Passport — NFC chip read
- Work Permit / Employment Visa · Driving Licence
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 Maldivian watchlists:
- National Assembly of Maldives — PEP Level 1 (members of parliament).
- Ministry of National Planning and Infrastructure Maldives — PEP Level 3 (senior ministry officials).
- Progressive Party of Maldives — PEP Level 3 (major political party figures).
- Ministry of Finance Maldives — Warnings (regulatory and enforcement notices).
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global designations.
- OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) — US Treasury designations.
- EU Consolidated Sanctions List — European Union designated entities.
- UK HMT Sanctions List — His Majesty's Treasury financial sanctions.
- APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering) — mutual evaluation watchlist.
- FATF 40 Recommendations — high-risk jurisdiction monitoring.
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 for Maldivian identities.
- There is no public government database validation API for the Maldives currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Department of National Registration civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation for Maldivian identities — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Maldives document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Maldives.
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Common questions about Maldives.
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