How to check a director's identity verification status at Companies House

Under ECCTA, every UK company director and PSC must verify their identity with Companies House. Verification status is now public information - here are the three ways to check it, from manual to fully automated.

1. On the Companies House register (free, manual)

Look up the company on the Companies House service, open each officer's record, and check for a verification date. This works fine for one company. It does not work for fifty: expect 2-3 minutes per company, and the answer goes stale whenever an officer changes.

2. With a free online checker (free, instant)

Our ECCTA verification checker aggregates the register data for you: enter a company name or number and get every current director and PSC with their verification status, the names of anyone unverified, and an overall risk rating - compliant, partial, high risk or unknown.

3. Via the API (automated, for portfolios and products)

One call returns the full compliance snapshot as JSON:

GET https://api.registrum.co.uk/v1/company/{number}/compliance

{
  "directors_total": 3,
  "directors_verified": 2,
  "directors_unverified": 1,
  "verification_risk": "partial",
  "unverified_persons": [{ "name": "SMITH, John", "role": "director" }],
  "eccta_enforcement_deadline": "2026-11-18"
}

Webhooks can also notify your system when a company's compliance risk changes - useful for KYB onboarding flows and continuous monitoring, checked on a 6-hour cycle.

What "unknown" means

Officers appointed before ECCTA data started flowing may show no verification information at all. That is not confirmed non-compliance - it is pre-ECCTA data. A good checker (and our API) reports these as unknown rather than lumping them in with confirmed unverified persons.

Checking a whole client book

If you are responsible for many companies, checking one at a time is the bottleneck. Our free portfolio scan runs your full client list and returns a gap report ranked by confirmation statement date.