Identity verification is now the law for every UK company director and person with significant control. Find out your deadline and the exact steps to comply, in plain English.
The rules as set out by Companies House. If you're a director or PSC, this applies to you.
Provide your personal code in your company's next confirmation statement. Director of several companies? You do it for each one. (New company: at registration.)
Provide your personal code within the first 14 days of your birth month — e.g. born 22 Jan means your window opens 1 Jan.
Both roles. Director code via the confirmation statement; PSC code within 14 days after that statement's date.
Verify within 14 days of being added to the register.
Most directors verify free, online, in about ten minutes.
Your confirmation statement date (directors) or birth month (PSC only) fixes when you must act. DirectorCheck works it out for you.
Use a biometric passport, UK driving licence, or bank details. No photo ID? There's a Post Office route.
You'll get a Companies House personal code after verifying. You file it with your confirmation statement — and that's it.
Verification is free and takes minutes. The deadline and the steps are all you need.