Organisations that host overseas visitors — for meetings, conferences or projects — quickly find that domestic identity tools do not apply. This is a plain explainer of what passport and foreign-national verification involves; it is not a Certopact feature.
Why it is different
Aadhaar and DigiLocker are Indian systems, so they do not apply to a foreign national. Verifying an overseas visitor generally means working with their passport and, where relevant, their visa — documents issued by other governments, outside the Indian identity infrastructure.
The common challenges
- No single authoritative source you can check the way Aadhaar offers domestically.
- A wide variety of document formats across countries.
- The gap between reading a passport and proving it is genuine and belongs to the holder.
- Additional immigration and record-keeping obligations for foreign visitors.
Capture versus verification
Capturing passport details is easy; genuinely verifying them is harder and typically relies on specialised document-authentication and, sometimes, liveness checks — the same capture-is-not-verification distinction as photo and ID scanning.
How this relates to Certopact
Certopact does not offer passport or foreign-national verification; its identity engine is built on Indian infrastructure — Aadhaar and DigiLocker. For domestic visitors it verifies against an authoritative source; for overseas visitors, you would capture details and manage them within Certopact Access alongside your own immigration processes. This is general information, not legal advice.