A threshold that fits your service
Your service sets its own eligibility threshold and applies it to verified age evidence.
Age Verification
Check age eligibility. Keep onboarding simple.
Offer a dedicated age-check flow: the applicant submits a supported identity document and a live selfie, and VeriqoCheck validates the document evidence and matches the selfie to its portrait. Your business receives age in completed years, verification status and the assessment date through the dedicated result. Apply your own minimum age, such as 18 or 21, without receiving the document image, selfie image or date of birth in that result.
A document and matching selfie. An age result for your business.
Check age with a supported identity document and matching selfie, with required live presence. Receive an age result without document images, selfie images or date of birth.
A document and matching selfie
The applicant submits a supported document and a live selfie. Face matching connects the selfie to the document portrait, with liveness required.
Only the age information your business needs
Receive age in completed years, verification status and the assessment date. The dedicated result excludes date of birth, document images and selfie images.
Uncertainty is not an underage result
The result identifies incomplete capture and inconclusive evidence.
From request to structured result.
Set the age policy
Request age verification and keep the eligibility threshold in your service.
Submit a document and live selfie
Validate the supported document evidence, check live presence and match the selfie to the document portrait.
Receive the age result
Read the age, verification status and assessment date, then apply your own over/under rule to a verified result.
Choose standalone verification or Digital Identity
Standalone Age Verification has its own endpoints and does not require NFC. Combining it with Digital Identity adds age extraction to the NFC document-and-presenter journey, using birth-date evidence from authenticated chip data.
Read the verification status
VERIFIED indicates that the evidence and presenter checks passed. INCONCLUSIVE means the completed evidence could not establish age reliably. INCOMPLETE means checks are still outstanding.
An assessment date, not a changing claim
The result uses a persisted UTC assessment date. It describes the check on that date and does not silently change on a later birthday. The full-year calculation treats 29 February birthdays as reaching their anniversary on 1 March in non-leap years; confirm suitability for your jurisdiction.
Deployment readiness matters
Standalone verification needs trusted document validation, not OCR alone. Capture support must be confirmed before launch; the current native iOS journey still needs its liveness integration. Backend endpoints can be used with a supported capture client.
Operational use cases
- ✓Age-restricted services
- ✓Eligibility screening
- ✓Account opening controls
- ✓Policy-based applicant review
What the product returns
- ✓Extracted age in years
- ✓Verification status
- ✓Recorded UTC assessment date
How this check fits the platform
AI supports document and presenter checks. Age is calculated from trusted document birth-date evidence; facial age estimation is not used.
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Product boundary
OCR alone does not establish document authenticity. Standalone verification needs trusted document validation; the Digital Identity combination uses authenticated chip evidence. Facial age estimates are not used. Confirm capture readiness and the applicable birthday policy before rollout.
Questions your team may ask.
Africa first means starting with the markets, documents and devices your customers use. Coverage and capture readiness are confirmed for your deployment; no universal document support or guaranteed compliance is implied.
What does my business receive?
The dedicated age result returns age in completed years, verification status and the assessment date. It excludes document images, selfie images and date of birth.
Can I receive only an over/under result?
The current API returns age rather than a threshold-only result. Your integration applies its own minimum age to a VERIFIED result and can show only the over/under outcome in your service.
Can I choose a threshold other than 18?
Yes. Your service chooses the threshold and evaluates it against the verified age.
Can I add age to Digital Identity?
Yes. Enable ageVerification in the Digital Identity configuration or request DIGITAL_IDENTITY and AGE_VERIFICATION together in an applicant application.
Is facial age estimation enough to pass?
No. Age verification uses trusted document birth-date evidence and the required presenter checks, not a facial age estimate.
Does an unreadable document mean someone is underage?
No. An unreadable document requires further evidence before you can assess eligibility.
Give age checks a clear place in your service.
Share your markets, minimum age and onboarding flow. Let’s confirm the supported verification journey.
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