# Overview

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Verify API is no longer supporting new onboarding. Please consider onboarding to [Singpass](https://docs.developer.singpass.gov.sg/docs/) instead
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**Verify** enables secure in-person identity verification and data transfer.Verify enables residents to perform secure in-person identity verification and data sharing through scanning QR codes.This service provides businesses a digital alternative for visitor registration and access, customer acquisition at roadshows, or other use cases that require user identification.<br>

## How Verify API can enhance your digital service

* Align with [PDPC's NRIC Advisory Guidelines](https://www.pdpc.gov.sg/-/media/Files/PDPC/PDF-Files/Advisory-Guidelines/Advisory-Guidelines-for-NRIC-Numbers---310818.pdf)\
  Businesses can verify users digitally without collecting or retaining physical NRICs, FIN cards and NRIC/FIN numbers. Verify is a recommended alternative means to conduct identity verification. Please refer to PDPC’s Technical Guide [here](https://www.pdpc.gov.sg/-/media/Files/PDPC/PDF-Files/Other-Guides/Technical-Guide-to-Advisory-Guidelines-on-NRIC-Numbers---260819.pdf).
* Scan and Go, Less Form Filling\
  Users can share their relevant data quickly by scanning a QR code and providing consent via [Singpass Mobile](https://app.singpass.gov.sg/).

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