# IDV Deadline

> Companies House identity verification became a legal requirement on 18 November 2025. Check your role, your deadline, and whether your part of it is live yet.

## Key facts

- Identity verification became a legal requirement on 18 November 2025, which Companies House states is not a deadline but the start of a 12-month transition period for directors and PSCs to verify by their own due dates.
- A company cannot file its confirmation statement unless all of its directors are verified, so a single unverified director blocks the whole company's filing.
- A person who is both a director and a PSC of the same company must provide the same personal code twice, and if the company files its confirmation statement early the PSC's 14 day window does not move.

## Key pages

- [What is your Companies House identity verification deadline?](https://idvdeadline.co.uk/): the main tool, answer above the fold.
- [How to verify your identity for Companies House](https://idvdeadline.co.uk/how-to-verify-your-identity-for-companies-house/): Two routes: free with GOV.UK One Login including a Post Office option, or through an Authorised Corporate Service Provider. What each involves and what you end up with.
- [When do directors have to verify their identity?](https://idvdeadline.co.uk/when-do-directors-have-to-verify/): The director trigger is the company's next confirmation statement, not a national deadline. Multiple directorships, appointments, incorporations, overseas companies.
- [The PSC 14 day window, and how it is calculated](https://idvdeadline.co.uk/psc-identity-verification-14-days/): Persons with significant control get a 14 day window to provide their personal code. Three different rules decide when it opens, and filing early does not move it.
- [Companies House identity verification: who, when, and what is not live yet](https://idvdeadline.co.uk/#data): original data table, updated 2026-08-14.
- [Full site content as markdown](https://idvdeadline.co.uk/llms-full.txt)

## Data

- Companies House identity verification: who, when, and what is not live yet. Methodology: Every row is taken from Companies House guidance on gov.uk, its 'when you need to verify' guidance, and the government's Changes to UK company law campaign site, read on the updated date shown above. The Status column distinguishes requirements in force today from those Companies House has announced but not commenced. No date is stated here unless the linked source states it, and where Companies House has given a qualified date such as 'no earlier than' or 'at a later date', that qualification is reproduced rather than resolved into a firm date.
- Last updated: 2026-08-14. Every figure cites its source inline.
- Source: gov.uk, verifying your identity for Companies House: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/verifying-your-identity-for-companies-house
- Source: gov.uk, when you need to verify your identity for Companies House: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/when-you-need-to-verify-your-identity-for-companies-house
- Source: gov.uk, verify your identity for Companies House (the service): https://www.gov.uk/guidance/verify-your-identity-for-companies-house
- Source: gov.uk, provide identity verification details for a PSC: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/provide-psc-verification
- Source: gov.uk, using an Authorised Corporate Service Provider to verify your identity: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-an-authorised-corporate-service-provider-acsp-to-verify-your-identity
- Source: gov.uk, list of Authorised Corporate Service Providers: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-authorised-corporate-service-providers-acsps
- Source: gov.uk, applying to register as a Companies House authorised agent: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/applying-to-register-as-a-companies-house-authorised-agent
- Source: gov.uk, Companies House approach to non-compliance with mandatory identity verification: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/companies-house-approach-to-non-compliance-with-mandatory-identity-verification
- Source: gov.uk campaign site, Changes to UK company law: identity verification: https://changestoukcompanylaw.campaign.gov.uk/identity-verification/
- Source: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/56/contents
- Source: Companies House, find and update company information: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/

## Citation

Cite as: "Companies House identity verification: who, when, and what is not live yet", IDV Deadline, https://idvdeadline.co.uk/ (updated 2026-08-14).

## About

- IDV Deadline is an information site. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Companies House, GOV.UK One Login, the Department for Business and Trade or any professional body, and nothing here is legal or accountancy advice. Companies House identity verification is being rolled out in stages: this site distinguishes requirements in force today from those announced but not commenced, and every statement is quoted from the gov.uk page it links to, checked on the date shown above. Rollout dates have moved before, so confirm the current position on gov.uk before you act.
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