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INE-Check & RENAPO

Important Information

  • This is an opt-in functionality and is priced separately. If your organization is interested in using it, please contact your sales representative.
  • This feature is exclusively available for organizations operating in Mexico.

Veridas can validate the identity of Mexican citizens in real time against two official sources:

  • RENAPO (Registro Nacional de Población) is the national population registry, in charge of the CURP (Clave Única de Registro de Población), the unique identifier assigned to every person registered in Mexico. RENAPO is the authoritative source for confirming that a CURP exists and that its associated personal data are correct.
  • INE (Instituto Nacional Electoral) issues the credencial para votar (voter ID) and maintains its registration status. Through the INE-Check service, Veridas confirms that the credential is genuine and active and performs a facial comparison against the photo INE holds for that citizen.

These services allow public and private entities to confirm the identity of Mexican citizens during a digital onboarding process.

Full Digital Onboarding + INE-Check / RENAPO

In Veridas' full digital onboarding process, the user:

  • Captures the front and back of the credencial para votar (or another valid national identification document).
  • Takes a selfie, undergoing either active or passive liveness detection.

The Veridas platform then:

  • Authenticates the document by verifying its security features and extracting the printed and encoded data (e.g., CURP, OCR number, clave de elector, número de emisión, full name, date of birth).
  • Performs biometric face-to-selfie comparison.

With the INE-Check / RENAPO connection, selected extracted fields are verified online against the corresponding official registry. Three services are available:

  • RENAPO — validates the CURP and its associated personal data against the RENAPO registry.
  • INE-Check — validates the voter credential (registration status of the credencial para votar) and runs a facial comparison of the citizen against the photo held by INE.
  • INE-Check-RENAPO-Fallback — runs INE-Check and automatically falls back to RENAPO if INE-Check cannot return a verdict due to a technical failure, so a single request yields a result whenever either source is available.

Veridas returns a boolean flag (match/no-match) for each validation:

Score Description
ValidasScoreRENAPOCheck Indicates whether the**CURP** and its associated personal data sent by Veridas match the official records held by RENAPO. This score confirms that the CURP provided during onboarding exists and aligns correctly with RENAPO's database.
ValidasScoreINECheckCheck Indicates whether the**credencial para votar** is found and in a valid registration status (situación registral) according to INE, confirming the document is active and has not been revoked.
ValidasScoreINECheckFacial Represents the facial comparison between the citizen and the photo held by INE, returning a match when the facial similarity reaches the established acceptance threshold.

For the INE-Check-RENAPO-Fallback service, the returned scores correspond to whichever source produced the verdict: the two INE-Check scores when INE-Check resolves the request, or ValidasScoreRENAPOCheck when the request falls back to RENAPO.

Info

These scores do not affect the ValidationGlobalScore.

Benefits

  • Fraud and Impersonation Mitigation: Direct validation against official Mexican registries significantly reduces the risk of identity theft and the use of stolen or revoked documents.
  • Nationwide Coverage: Includes every valid CURP registered with RENAPO and every credencial para votar registered with INE.
  • Resilience: The INE-Check-RENAPO-Fallback service maximizes availability by automatically switching to RENAPO when INE-Check is temporarily unavailable.

Availability

The service exclusively covers Mexican citizens with a valid CURP and/or credencial para votar. Foreigner ID cards, passports, and third-country documents are out of scope.

Quality of document images

Ensure that document images are of enough quality. Otherwise, this may result in failed or inaccurate processing results.

Note: INE-Check and RENAPO functionality is available in both Validas and XpressID.