For full details of the identity verification requirements, please read: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-meet-companies-house-identity-verification-standard
Verifying using identification document validation technology (IDVT)
Firmcheck provides identification document validation technology (IDVT) to verify individuals with our Advanced ID check. The Advanced ID check includes:
Recording unique email addresses.
Sending an email request to the individual to take a photo of their identity document.
OCR technology reads their name, date of birth, country, document number, and expiry date.
An authenticity check is run on the document.
Individual’s data is cross-referenced with third party databases: the name and date of birth from the identity document, plus the address that the user provides to check against UK data sources.
A live selfie is taken to do a biometric face-match with the identity document.
Verifying using a trained person
For those wishing to verify their client documents with a person (and that person is trained in verifying documents by an organisation following the Home Office best practice guide), Firmcheck provides the ability to manually store identity documents, with information and notes about the document and verification process to help with the data and record-keeping requirements.
Further requirements
Firmcheck integrates with Companies House to ensure all the Directors and PSCs of your clients are correctly pulled into Firmcheck to start the verification process.
Firmcheck can store all the documents and records required even for clients that have been archived, to meet the 7 year record-keeping requirement.
We are closely following continued updates from Companies House to ensure Firmcheck can help your firm meet these new verification requirements.