How is a foreign non-resident director of an Australian company verified?
Capture the international passport (Latin-script MRZ extracts reliably) or other foreign ID.
Common situation - the company being KYB'd is Australian, but the director sits in another country eg Japan with no Australian visa. The workaround until the dedicated International Client option ships is:
- Select International Passport - attach the Japanese passport. The MRZ (machine-readable zone) is in Latin script and extracts reliably.
- Use the other foreign ID documents (eg the national identification card with photo). Treated by the platform as a supplementary photo ID.
- Use the International Birth Cert slot for any placeholder document the customer can supply, or skip if not available.
- Mobile capture required - the VOI must be completed on the customer's phone, not a desktop browser.
- PEP, sanctions and adverse-media screening runs on the captured name.
If the director has no current Australian visa, the captured documents are reviewed manually rather than DVS-matched. Where higher assurance is needed, a manual VOI via the Australian Embassy in the foreign country is the next step - functionality to record this directly into easyAML is in development. Documents in foreign languages are accepted; if other Latin-script verifications can be paired with them, the audit position is materially stronger.