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Burundi

East Africa · BIF (FBu) · dial code +257 · Kirundi, French, English

Local currency

BIF

Phone numbers

+25779123456

National ID

CNI (Carte nationale d'identité): coming

Available in Burundi

• ✓Phone verification (SMS OTP)
• ✓SMS and bulk SMS
• ✓Document OCR and verification
• ✓Liveness detection
• ✓Face match
• ✓Address verification
• ✓Verification Suite (applicant links and embed)
• ✓Website audit
• ✓Domain verification
• ✓AI content detection
• ✓Video and voice calls
• ✓Live streaming
• ✓Chat
• ✓WhatsApp assistant and platform
• ✓File tools (PDF, images, audio)
• ✓Short links
• ✓QR codes
• ✓Video meetings

Nigeria only

These read Nigerian identity, banking and utility records, so they do not work for Burundi. Calling them for another country returns 403 not_available_in_country:

• ●BVN verification
• ●NIN verification
• ●Driver's licence (FRSC)
• ●Bank account name check
• ●BVN to account match
• ●CAC business registry check
• ●Credit bureau score
• ●Bills (airtime, data, electricity, TV)
• ●Business payment gateway (collections)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_available_in_country",
    "message": "BVN verification is only available for Nigeria. ...",
    "status": 403
  }
}

Coming: CNI (Carte nationale d'identité) verification

A Burundi-specific identity check against the CNI (Carte nationale d'identité) (Ministry of Interior) is planned. Until it launches, you can verify people in Burundi with document OCR, liveness and face match, which work with any passport, national ID or driver's licence photo.

Prices in BIF

Your balance is held in naira. Prices below are converted at ₦0.4434 per BIF, rounded up. Top-ups in BIF are credited at the same rate.

Phone number format

Burundi mobile numbers are written locally as 79 12 34 56 and internationally as +25779123456. There is no national 0 prefix to remove; we add +257 in front of what you send.

curl -X POST https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start \
  -H "X-IdentifyOrg-Key: io_live_xxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "phone": "+25779123456" }'

# The same number in local format needs the country:
curl -X POST https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start \
  -H "X-IdentifyOrg-Key: io_live_xxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "phone": "79123456", "country": "BI" }'

const res = await fetch("https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "X-IdentifyOrg-Key": process.env.IDENTIFYORG_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ phone: "79123456", country: "BI" }), // or phone: "+25779123456"
});
const { id } = await res.json(); // then POST /v1/phone/verify/check with { id, code }

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start",
    headers={"X-IdentifyOrg-Key": os.environ["IDENTIFYORG_KEY"]},
    json={"phone": "+25779123456"},
)
verification_id = r.json()["id"]

Topping up your balance

Card payments and mobile money (Lumicash, EcoCash) in BIF, converted to your naira balance at the rate shown when you pay. Provider availability is set per country, and cards in US dollars are the fallback where a local-currency option is not open yet.