Identity verification
built for Portugal 
Cartão de Cidadão and Portuguese passport on one session, AMLD6 + GDPR aligned — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Portugal.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Portuguese identity fraud: synthetic Cartão de Cidadão attacks on the wave of MiCA-licensed crypto exchanges and fintech wallets, deepfake injection on digital-nomad-visa remote onboarding flows, and cross-border iGaming pressure as SRIJ-licensed operators expand. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Lei 83/2017 (PBC/FT)
- AMLD6
- MiCA
- eIDAS 2.0
- DORA
- GDPR / Lei 58/2019
- Aviso 1/2022 do Banco de Portugal (PBC/FT)
Who supervises identity verification in Portugal.
Banco de Portugal
Central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions (IP) and electronic money institutions (IME).
CMVM
Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários — securities supervisor and competent authority for crypto-asset service providers under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation.
ASF
Autoridade de Supervisão de Seguros e Fundos de Pensões — supervisor for insurance undertakings and pension funds.
CNPD
Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados — General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Lei 58/2019 supervisor.
Autoridade Tributária
Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira — tax and customs authority. Operates the NIF (Número de Identificação Fiscal) registry used in KYB and treasury onboarding.
UIF Portugal
Unidade de Informação Financeira at the Polícia Judiciária — Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives suspicious-transaction reports under Lei 83/2017.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every active Portuguese credential — Cartão de Cidadão (with chip read on the contactless interface), Passaporte português (chip read on e-Passports), Título de Residência for foreign nationals, every EU / EEA national identity card, and the Carta de Condução.
- Returns the name, document number, NIF (where present), date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Cartão de Cidadão (chip + NFC)
- Passaporte português · Título de Residência
- EU / EEA national IDs · Carta de Condução
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.
Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every Portuguese regulatory watchlist (National Assembly PEP register, Banco Português de Gestão, Caixa Geral de Depósitos PEP, Portugal OSAE warnings, UIF Portugal alerts at the Polícia Judiciária).
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.
Cross-check residential address against Portuguese records.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The `prt_residential` check (
$1.02 per successful query, ~50% coverage, no consent required) aggregates Portuguese residential records —first_name,last_name,addressin, validated address envelope out. - The Cartão de Cidadão chip read is the authoritative-source path for civil-registry data — the residential check complements that with a real-world address signal.
Cross-check residential address against Portuguese records — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Portugal document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Portugal.
Portugal Residential
Source: Aggregated Portuguese residential + public records. $1.02 per successful query. Coverage ~50% of adult population.
AML lists screened in Portugal
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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Common questions about Portugal.
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