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Identity verification
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National ID (NIRA), Passport and Driver's Licence on one session, screened against Ugandan regulatory watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Uganda.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Ugandan identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on mobile-money-connected fintechs and digital wallets, NIRA card and Driver's Licence forgery, and AML pressure on cross-border remittance corridors with Kenya, Tanzania, and South Sudan. 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 Act 2013
  • Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019
  • National Payment Systems Act 2020
  • Bank of Uganda KYC and CDD Guidelines
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Uganda.

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

    Bank of Uganda, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, and electronic-money issuers under the National Payment Systems Act 2020.

  • CMA Uganda

    Capital Markets Authority, capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and investment advisors. Issues watchlist warnings on unlicensed promoters.

  • FIA

    Financial Intelligence Authority, Uganda's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2013.

  • PDPO

    Personal Data Protection Office, enforces the Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019. Governs every identity verification on Ugandan residents.

  • NIRA

    National Identification and Registration Authority, issuer of the National ID Card and the National Identification Number. Maintains the authoritative national identity register.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Uganda 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.

  • National ID (NIRA), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driver's Licence, and Voter Card.
  • Returns the name, NIRA number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • National ID (NIRA)
  • Passport, chip read on e-Passport
  • Driver's Licence · Voter Card
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 Ugandan watchlists:

  • Parliament of Uganda, PEP Level 1, Members of Parliament and senior legislative officials.
  • Uganda National Council for Science and Technology, PEP Level 2, statutory-authority officials.
  • Kabale District Local Government, PEP Level 2, district-level government chairs and officials.
  • Local Government of Napak District, PEP Level 4, district local-government entries.
  • Ministry of Local Government, PEP Level 4, ministry-level senior officials.
  • UGPPDA, Ugandan Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority, debarred contractors and procurement-enforcement signals.
  • Front Line Defenders, Uganda adverse media, international adverse-media coverage of Ugandan persons of concern.
  • Capital Market Authority (CMA Uganda), Warnings, regulatory warnings on unlicensed promoters and enforcement actions.

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.

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

  • The National ID is read end-to-end on the hosted flow: full OCR of the National Identification Number, name, date of birth, place of issue, expiry, and template authenticity check.
  • Wire ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML into a single workflow. The full bundle anchors at $0.33 per session with a tamper-evident audit log a FIA-supervised compliance team can hand to BoU under the AML Act 2013.
  • An authoritative-source NIRA lookup is on the upcoming Database Validation roadmap, Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their 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 Uganda 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 Uganda.

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 Uganda.

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 Ugandan regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Ugandan identity-verification flow:

  • Bank of Uganda (BoU), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, payment service providers, and electronic-money issuers under the National Payment Systems Act 2020.
  • Capital Markets Authority (CMA Uganda), capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and investment advisors.
  • Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA), Uganda's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2013 and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
  • Personal Data Protection Office (PDPO), enforces the Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019. Governs how the verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed.

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 cross-check Ugandan identities against NIRA?

Not as a Database Validation service today. The NIRA National ID is read end-to-end on the hosted flow (full OCR of the National Identification Number, name, date of birth, place of issue, expiry, and template authenticity check), and the AML stage screens the user against every named Ugandan regulatory watchlist.

For higher-assurance Ugandan flows, pair the ID + Biometric + AML stages with Ongoing AML Monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and the visual workflow builder so the full session, including every signal and the tamper-evident audit log, lands in one JSON report.

A new Database Validation provider ships every month; the NIRA surface is on the upcoming list.

Which Ugandan watchlists does the AML stage screen against?

Every named Ugandan regulatory body + adverse-media signal, on top of the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media sources:

  • Parliament of Uganda (PEP Level 1).
  • Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (PEP Level 2).
  • Kabale District Local Government (PEP Level 2).
  • Local Government of Napak District (PEP Level 4).
  • Ministry of Local Government (PEP Level 4).
  • UGANDA, UGPPDA, Ugandan Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority debarments.
  • Front Line Defenders, adverse-media coverage.
  • Capital Market Authority (CMA Uganda), Warnings.

The full list is documented at docs.didit.me/core-technology/aml-screening/watchlist-database-aml-screening. Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation FIA expects.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in Uganda?

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 Uganda stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

English, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Ugandan users land on the English flow by default, and Swahili is live on the same flow for cross-locale teams.

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 Uganda 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, no Uganda 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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