Verification checks
Learn about the different verification checks supported by Stripe Identity.
Stripe Identity currently supports six types of verification checks: document, selfie, ID number, address, phone, and email.
Each verification check requires different information from your user, has different coverage, and has a different verification flow. After you’ve integrated one check, you can add another with minimal changes to your integration.
Document checks verify the authenticity of government-issued identity documents. Stripe uses a combination of AI models, automated heuristic analysis and manual reviewers to verify the authenticity of hundreds of different document types.
AI models are used to capture high-definition pictures of the fronts and backs of documents. The document images are analyzed in real-time to check for legibility and warn the user if the document is expired or unlikely to be verified. Stripe checks the images against a database of fraudulent document templates. This database is updated frequently, so that Stripe can detect new fake document templates and automatically block them.
Wherever available, barcodes and other machine-readable features of the document are decoded and consistency checks are performed to ensure that the text document data matches the machine-readable data.
To prevent “presentation attacks” — fraudster using pictures of stolen documents or someone else’s face, Stripe uses computer vision and AI algorithms to ensure the user captured an image of an actual document.
See the Verify your users’ identity documents guide to learn how to integrate document checks into your app.
Additionally, document checks can also be paired with ID number checks. This ensures the authenticity of the document and ensure the information in it can be cross-referenced in third party databases.
Availability
Document checks are available for most government issued documents (national IDs, driver’s licenses and passports) from the following countries:
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Benin
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Côte d’Ivoire
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Mongolia
Morocco
Myanmar (Burma)
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
North Macedonia
Norway
Pakistan
Palestinian Territories
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam
Note
Stripe doesn’t support extraction of document fields written in Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Tamil, or Thai script.