PASSPORT-CHECK

In its continued pioneering spirit and commitment to developing efficient tools to streamline compliance and due diligence obligations, World-Check engineered Passport-Check - a passport verification solution that enables organisations to verify the identity of customers in seconds. Accessible via World-Check Online, it allows organisations to conduct such checks in-house for maximum data privacy and security. 

Institutions rely fundamentally on a passport to verify an individual’s identity and yet historically they have had no way of verifying whether a passport is a forgery or not. This fundamental flaw in the current Customer Identification process can now be addressed with Passport-Check. 

Key Benefits Free of charge - World-Check Online feature Easy verification process Immediate control and confirmation Simultaneous name screening and ID document checking Report printout for due diligence purposes Customer data checked in-house Internationally accepted independent verification process Security of your data assured No additional hardware or software required.

What is Passport-Check?

Passport-Check is a cutting-edge application that verifies the authenticity of machine-readable passports and identity documents. By simply entering the passport data, Passport-Check’s control digit verification technology calculates the correct composition of the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ), including a number of check-digits. If the upper and the lower lines delivered by Passport-Check do not correspond with the MRZ on the presented passport, the document may be a forgery.

The MRZ is an integral part of all modern passports and ID documents. Developed by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) it is the accepted international standard and the same checking procedure is therefore applied to all international machine-readable ID documents.

Why verification?

In a time when ID theft, fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing are a constant threat, making sure you can verify the identity of your customers, employees, associates and vendors is now more critical than ever.

Passport-Check will not only dramatically improve the identity verification process with its easy access and instant results, it will also reduce the costs incurred in going to third parties to confirm such identification. In addition, being able to carry such ID checks in-house means that any privacy or security concerns are no longer an issue.

Passport-Check is offered free of charge to all World-Check Online subscribers. The integration of name checking and ID document verification into one process provides both our commercial and government clients with a unique solution to meet the stringent international Know Your Customer due diligence obligations.

Proof of due diligence

Passport-Check automatically produces a print-out confirmation of the MRZ as it should appear in the passport being verified. This print-out also confirms the details entered and whether the carrier appears in World-Check, thus providing proof of due diligence with an auditable trail.