Early access
Way 2
In your app
Our app kit adds the passport check to your own app. VU decides the result on its server and tells you; the app kit holds no secret and decides nothing. Flutter on Android today, iPhone next.
Check identityEarly access
Check anyone with a chip passport, from anywhere
VU reads the chip in a passport, checks the issuing government's signature on it, and matches a live face to the chip's photo. The person keeps the result as VU Verified, so nobody has to check them again.
How it works
Nothing to upload: the phone reads the passport itself.
Two ways to use it
Early access
Way 3
In the VU app
People check once in the VU app, free and with no sign-up. It's on Android, and isn't in app stores yet. At a counter, your staff then see that they are over 18, or who they are, with a tap.
At your counterWhat VU keeps
Proofs, not data
Here VU checks the passport itself, so it holds itself to keeping as little as it can.
No passport contents
VU keeps proofs that a check happened, not the data it read.
No face images
Face images are deleted as soon as the check is decided.
Sanctions screening at each check
People are screened against UK, EU and US sanctions lists at the moment of each check. Nothing is kept, except while a possible match is reviewed.
The person decides
Nothing is shared until they approve, and a business sees only the fact it asked for.
Where it stands
Early access- The passport check works end to end on Android, tested on real phones.
- Requests are open now, and we will open it to businesses a few at a time. iPhone is next.
- VU is not yet certified as a UK digital identity provider, so UK firms regulated for money laundering should keep their own provider for now.
- Early access is free.
Check people once, from anywhere
Tell us about your platform, and we'll open early access.