Passport Verification : What It Is and How It Works for Businesses
Learn how a Passport Verification API works and how FastKYC helps businesses streamline passport checks and digital onboarding.
Akshitha A VSoftware Engineer
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What Is Passport Verification?
Passport verification is the process of checking passport details to help confirm a person's identity.
A passport contains important information such as the holder's name, date of birth, photograph, and nationality. Businesses may need to check these details when onboarding customers, verifying applicants, or providing services.
For example, a financial services company may need to verify a customer's identity before proceeding with an application. Passport verification can help with this process.
Why Is Passport Verification Important?
Businesses need to verify identity information before completing certain onboarding processes. Checking every document manually can take time, especially when businesses handle many applications.
Passport verification can help businesses:
- Check passport details during onboarding.
- Reduce repetitive manual verification work.
- Support digital identity verification.
- Verify passport information as part of applicant screening.
- Include passport checks in existing business workflows.
What Is the Difference Between Passport OCR and Passport Verification?
Passport OCR and passport verification serve different purposes.
Passport OCR extracts information from a passport image, such as the passport number, name, date of birth, nationality, and expiry date.
Passport verification checks the submitted information against the records supported by the verification service.
For example, a business can use OCR to extract passport details from an uploaded document. It can then use a suitable verification service to check the relevant information.
FastKYC provides both services:
Where Is Passport Verification Used?
Passport verification can support identity-checking workflows across different industries.
Banking and lending: Businesses can include passport verification in relevant customer onboarding and borrower verification processes.
Insurance: Insurance providers may use passport details as part of customer identity checks.
Travel and forex: Travel and foreign exchange businesses can use passport-related checks where required.
Staffing and recruitment: Employers and staffing companies may include passport verification in applicant onboarding.
NRI onboarding: Businesses serving non-resident Indian customers can explore passport verification as part of their identity-checking process.
How to Check Passport Details Using the FastKYC
- Choose this if: You need to verify Indian passport details.
- It checks: Passport information against supported issuing-authority records.
- You send: Passport number and date of birth.
- It returns: Available details such as the holder's name, date of birth, file number, application date, issue date, and passport number.
