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Qatar ID, GCC ID and Passport on one session, screened against Qatari regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Qatar.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Qatari identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the QCB-licensed digital banks and the QFC fintech licensees, QID and residence-credential misuse across the expatriate workforce, and AML pressure on energy-export-linked corporate flows and remittance corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • AML/CFT Law 20/2019
  • Personal Data Privacy Protection Law (PDPPL, Law 13/2016)
  • QCB AML/CFT instructions
  • QFCRA AML/CTF Rulebook
  • QFMA AML/CFT Rules
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Qatar.

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

    Qatar Central Bank — prudential supervisor for onshore banks, payment service providers, exchange houses, insurance firms, and the broader licensed financial sector. Sets remote-onboarding requirements through its AML/CFT instructions.

  • QFCRA

    Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority — independent common-law regulator for firms operating inside the QFC free zone, with its own AML and data-protection regime.

  • QFMA

    Qatar Financial Markets Authority — securities and capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and Qatar Stock Exchange-listed institutions.

  • QFIU

    Qatar Financial Information Unit — receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AML/CFT Law 20/2019 and is the country's designated Financial Intelligence Unit.

  • NCSA

    National Cyber Security Agency — administers the Personal Data Privacy Protection Law (PDPPL, Law 13/2016) — the Gulf's first comprehensive data-protection statute. Governs every identity verification on Qatari residents.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Qatar 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 credential Qatar actually presents — Qatar ID Card (QID — the authoritative 11-digit national identity card), the QID-format Residence Permit for foreign workers, GCC ID Cards under mutual recognition, Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and the Qatari driving licence.
  • Returns the name, QID number, date of birth, nationality, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Qatar ID Card (QID) · Residence Permit
  • GCC ID Card · Passport — chip read on e-Passport
  • Driving Licence
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 Qatari watchlists:

  • Qatar Financial Information Unit (QFIU) — Suspicious Transaction Report watchlist.
  • Qatar Central Bank (QCB) — regulatory enforcement and suspended-licence list.
  • Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) — enforcement and restricted-persons list.
  • Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA) — Special Interest Entity (SIE) list.
  • Ministry of Interior National Counter Terrorism Committee Qatar — Sanction List.
  • State Security Bureau Qatar — anti-terrorism designations.
  • GCC PEP register — cross-member politically exposed persons.
  • House of Representatives of Qatar — PEP Level 1 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

Bind every check to one audited session.

  • The full bundle anchors at $0.33 per session — same price worldwide.
  • Add Ongoing AML Monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation the AML/CFT Law 20/2019 expects.
  • Qatar does not currently expose a public consumer or government API for direct authoritative-registry lookups — the Ministry of Interior civil registry is accessible only through licensed data-partner integrations on Enterprise. Talk to sales to wire that into your workflow.
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Stage 04Bind every check to one audited session

Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Qatar 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 Qatar.

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 Qatar.

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