The Identity and Residency Check validates the identity of your candidate and that they live at the address stated on their application. This is achieved by comparing the data given by your candidate against 300 million plus records held in public and private databases. High-risk alerts such as sanctions files maintained by HM Treasury and Office of Foreign Assets Control, mortality registers and Royal Mail Re-direct are also checked. Electronic identity validation is much more robust than checking paper identity documents and should be the starting point of all employment screening programmes.

Price: £12.50

Typical turnaround time: 1 working day

Data source: Credit reference agencies

Information returned:

Know Your Candidate provide a comprehensive and robust check on your candidate's identity and residency status. Our report returns a breakdown of the breadth, depth and quality of the data that underpins the result, giving you much more than the simple check against the Electoral Roll that many of our competitors badge as an 'identity check':

• The numbers and types of data sources that confirm the individual's identity (forename, family name and date of birth combination)
• The number and types of data sources that confirms that the individual lives where they claim to
• Electoral Roll registration history
• High-risk alert indicators including mortality registers, Royal Mail re-direct and sanctions databases from the Bank of England and Office of Foreign Assets Control
• Any aliases used by the candidate

Where is this check appropriate?

• All candidates / All positions

Other useful information:

• The verification of your candidate's identity should be the first step in an employment screening process. Once you are sure that your candidate's identity is genuine you can have a greater degree of confidence that the other details they may supply such as employment and education histories actually belong to them
• Verifying a candidate's identity electronically is much faster and more robust than checking documents which can be easily bought, forged or stolen