Digital Identity Checking for Employers

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Digital Identity Verification

Once you’ve registered your organisation, you’ll be charged for individual checks as and when you request them – there are no upfront minimums or contractual tie-ins.

Number of Checks	1 - 50	51 - 300	301 - 500	501 - 750	751 - 1,000	1,001 +
uCheck Fee (inc VAT)	£5.60	£5.60	£5.00	£4.20	£4.20	£3.80

uCheck Facts: Digital Identity Checks

Digital Identity Checks can automatically verify passports, PASS cards and driving licences from over 200 countries.

What are Digital Identity Checks?

Digital Identity Checks are a fully digital way to verify prospective employees’ identity. Instead of showing a physical identity document, they can provide the same information digitally.

Our service complies with new guidance from the Disclosure and Barring Service as well as the Home Office, updated in 2022 to allow for Digital Identity Checks. Our automated checks can verify identities to support Basic, Standard and Enhanced DBS Checks, authenticating:

Passports
PASS cards
Driving licences

How can Digital Identity Checks assist my organisation?

Identity checking is a crucial stage in the recruitment process. A Digital Identity Check helps protect your organisation from fraud and increases the efficiency of your checks.

Digital Identity Checks can be useful for all employers, but are particularly suited to those who need a number of pre-employment checks, like DBS Checks, carried out on their employees. Advantages of Digital Identity Checks over manual ones are:

Speed – the applicant can upload documents and verify their identity during the application process, saving the applicant and employer considerable time
Quality – a Digital Identity Check scans the biometric data on a document, making it more thorough than a physical check; there’s no need to worry if a document could have been forged
Reliable – a Digital Identity Check verifies a set scope of requirements and does so every single time; there’s no risk of human error
Scope – with the ability to check passports, PASS cards and driving licences from over 200 countries, you no longer need to worry if you’ve never seen a particular document before

During the process, applicants only need to share the information that is necessary.

How long do the results take, and how do I get them?

It only takes a few minutes to request Digital Identity Checks with our simple, easy-to-use service. With a Digital Identity Check, results could be also ready in minutes – it’s the quickest way possible to verify the identity of your applicants.

Our online Platform allows you to check the status of the application at every step of the process, and you’ll receive an automatic notification as soon as a check is complete.

Frequently Asked Questions

We are seamlessly integrating the new Digital Identity Checks into our existing HR Platform. You will be able to select Digital Identity Checks from this Platform when you go to check a new applicant.

The Digital Identity Check process is an alternative to the original method of verifying applicants’ identity, by checking documents manually during a face-to-face meeting. For those who would prefer to continue using a manual checking approach, this service will still be provided.

uCheck has partnered with the Post Office and Yoti. The Technology used is certified as compliant with ISO/IEC 27001 information security standards and security controls are audited using the ISAE 300 (SOC2) methodology.

Digital Identity Checks put identity checking in the hands of applicants, saving you time verifying documents. Digital Checks are also more reliable than traditional physical checks, so you can be sure the quality of checks are high and your prospective applicants are who they say they are.