United Kingdom

Northern Europe · GBP (£) · dial code +44 · English, Welsh

Overview of IdentifyOrg in United Kingdom →

Local currency: GBP
Phone numbers: +447400123456
National ID: Passport / driving licence (no national ID card)

Available in United Kingdom

Nigeria only

These read Nigerian identity, banking and utility records, so they do not work for United Kingdom. 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)

Response, 403

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

United Kingdom has no single national ID. Document OCR reads passports and driving licences, and liveness and face match confirm the person. We are evaluating registry checks for United Kingdom.

Prices in GBP

Prices for United Kingdom ·change

Your balance is held in naira. Prices below are converted at ₦1,774.474 per GBP, rounded up. Top-ups in GBP are credited at the same rate.

Service	Price	Unit
Phone verification (SMS OTP)	£0.01	per code sent
SMS	£0.01	per message
Document OCR and verification	£0.03	per document
Liveness detection	£0.05	per check
Face match	£0.05	per check
Address verification	£0.09	per check
Business registry check	£0.76	per check
VAT number validation (live)	£0.76	per check
Video call	£0.01	per participant-minute
Voice call	£0.01	per participant-minute
Website audit	£0.17	per scan
AI text detection	£0.05	per check

Phone number format

United Kingdom mobile numbers are written locally as 07400 123456 and internationally as +447400123456. The leading 0 is a national prefix: we drop it when we add +44, so local-format numbers work if you also send the country.

curl

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": "+447400123456" }'

# 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": "07400123456", "country": "GB" }'

Node.js

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: "07400123456", country: "GB" }), // or phone: "+447400123456"
});
const { id } = await res.json(); // then POST /v1/phone/verify/check with { id, code }

Python

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start",
    headers={"X-IdentifyOrg-Key": os.environ["IDENTIFYORG_KEY"]},
    json={"phone": "+447400123456"},
)
verification_id = r.json()["id"]

Topping up your balance

Card payments in GBP, 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.

Data protection

Personal data in United Kingdom is governed by the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Phone verification stores only a salted hash of each code; check your own obligations as the data controller.