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Identity verification
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Citizenship Certificate and biometric passport on one session, face-matched against a live selfie, AML-screened across Nepal Rastra Bank and global sanctions lists. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Nepal.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Nepal faces cross-border identity fraud driven by the large migrant-worker population transiting India, the Gulf, and Malaysia, fraudulent Citizenship Certificate claims, synthetic-ID attacks exploiting the dual paper-and-biometric issuance period, and document forgery on older laminate citizenship cards. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Asset (Money) Laundering Prevention Act 2008 (AMLA 2008) and 2014 Amendment
  • Banks and Financial Institutions Act 2017 (BAFIA 2017)
  • Individual Privacy Act 2075 (2018)
  • NRB Unified Directives on Customer Due Diligence
  • APG Mutual Evaluation Framework
  • FATF 40 Recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Nepal.

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

  • NRB

    Nepal Rastra Bank, central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, development banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service operators. Issues Customer Due Diligence and KYC requirements under BAFIA 2017 and NRB Unified Directives.

  • DMLI

    Department of Money Laundering Investigation, Nepal's Financial Intelligence Unit under the Ministry of Finance. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and oversees AML enforcement under the Asset (Money) Laundering Prevention Act 2008 (AMLA 2008).

  • SEBON

    Securities Board of Nepal, supervises capital-market participants, broker-dealers, merchant banks, and collective investment schemes. Issues KYC compliance requirements for securities onboarding.

  • DONIDVR

    Department of National Identity Card and Vital Registration, issues the National Identity Card and maintains Nepal's civil registration database, which underpins digital identity verification flows.

  • Ministry of Home Affairs

    Oversees District Administration Offices that issue Citizenship Certificates, the authoritative identity document in Nepal, and enforces the Individual Privacy Act 2075 (2018) on personal data protection.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

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

Capture and read the ID.

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

  • Citizenship Certificate (older paper and newer laminate formats), biometric passport (with chip read on e-Passports), National Identity Card, Driving Licence, and Voter ID Card.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, permanent address.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Citizenship Certificate (laminate and paper formats)
  • Biometric Passport, chip read on e-Passport
  • National Identity Card · Driving Licence · Voter ID
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 Nepali watchlists:

  • National Assembly of Nepal, PEP Level 1 (upper-house members).
  • Nepal Electricity Authority, PEP Level 2 (state enterprise executives).
  • Ministry of Finance Nepal, PEP Level 2 (finance ministry senior officials).
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nepal, PEP Level 2 (foreign ministry senior officials).
  • Ministry of Home Affairs Nepal, PEP Level 2 (home ministry senior officials).
  • Ministry of Defense Nepal, PEP Level 2 (defense ministry officials).
  • Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, PEP Level 2 (federal officials).
  • Chitwan National Park, SIP (state institution of public interest).
  • New Business Age-Fine, Warnings (regulatory enforcement notices).
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List, global designations.
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), US Treasury designations.
  • APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering), mutual evaluation watchlist.

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 for Nepali identities.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Nepal currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, Nepal's DONIDVR civil registry and NRB identity systems do not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Database validation for Nepali identities

Database validation for Nepali identities , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Nepal 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 Nepal.

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.
aml-screening

AML lists screened in Nepal

1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.

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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 Nepal.

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 Nepali regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Three regulators sit on top of every Nepali identity-verification flow:

  • Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), central bank and prudential supervisor for all banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service operators. Sets Customer Due Diligence and KYC requirements under BAFIA 2017 and the NRB Unified Directives.
  • Department of Money Laundering Investigation (DMLI), Nepal's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and oversees AML enforcement under the Asset (Money) Laundering Prevention Act 2008 (AMLA 2008).
  • Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON), supervises capital-market participants and broker-dealers, issuing KYC compliance requirements for securities onboarding.

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

What documents does Didit accept for Nepal identity verification?

Didit accepts all primary Nepali identity documents on the same session:

  • Citizenship Certificate, the primary Nepali identity document; both older paper format and newer laminate versions are OCR-parsed and template-verified.
  • Biometric Passport, ICAO 9303-compliant; NFC chip read supported on compatible devices.
  • National Identity Card, the new chip-enabled card progressively issued since 2023 by DONIDVR.
  • Driving Licence, smart card format since 2018, document-template parsed.
  • Voter ID Card, accepted as supplementary identity proof.

All 220+ country foreign passports and national IDs are also accepted, supporting Nepal's large diaspora and migrant-worker population.

Is Didit ready for NRB-licensed fintech or payment service provider onboarding in Nepal?

Yes. Nepal Rastra Bank's Unified Directives and BAFIA 2017 require every licensed bank, microfinance institution, and payment service provider to run full Customer Due Diligence at onboarding, with AML screening under AMLA 2008.

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 Nepali regulatory watchlists (National Assembly PEP register, Ministry of Finance, Home Affairs, Defense, plus UN/OFAC sanctions).
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under AMLA 2008.
  • 500 verifications free every month, pilot the full Nepal stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Nepal?

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. 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 Nepal stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

What does Nepal 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; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.

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