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When is your ID deadline?
Every UK director and PSC must verify their identity with Companies House by their own date, set by the company’s confirmation statement. For most companies it falls before 18 November, for many it has already passed, and the last fall on 1 December 2026. Enter your company and we’ll show the date the register gives for yours, and who shows as verified. Free, instant, no sign-up.
About the ID Deadline Checker
What it actually checks
- It finds your company on the public Companies House register and reads its current directors and people with significant control (PSCs).
- For each person it reads the identity-verification status the register has shown since November 2025, and counts who is showing as verified and who isn't.
- Company secretaries are left out on purpose: they have no duty to verify.
- Nothing is stored about your company beyond the check itself unless you ask for the weekly re-check, which starts only when you press the button in the email we send.
How to read your result
- “Not showing on the register” is exactly that. The register can lag behind reality: someone who verified recently may not show yet, and some verified records carry no date.
- The verdict (the counts, the date that applies and the days left) is free with no sign-up: three checks a day per connection, within five a week across all our free tools. Who the people are by name is shown only to a signed-in account with a verified email and mobile (a free account), so a list of who hasn't verified can't be gathered for scams.
- The dates that matter: new appointments have verified since 18 November 2025. An existing director’s date is the filing deadline of the company’s first confirmation statement after that (its confirmation date plus 14 days); a PSC who isn’t a director verifies in the first 14 days of their birth month. The register prints each person’s date, and the checker reads it; the last in the timetable is 1 December 2026.
- After their date, a director who isn’t verified mustn’t act as one (an offence for them and the company), the company can’t file its confirmation statement, and Companies House can fine or prosecute: the first prosecutions came in September 2026.
Questions people ask
- Does this tool verify my identity?
- No. It only reads the public register and tells you what it shows. Verifying is done with Companies House through GOV.UK One Login, or through an authorised agent such as your accountant. Doing it directly with Companies House is free; an agent may charge.
- I’m the only director and the owner. Do I count twice?
- Yes, in a sense: a director and a PSC (typically anyone owning more than 25% of the company) are both covered. In most small companies that’s the same person, verified once, showing in both roles.
- The register says I’m not showing but I did verify. What now?
- The register can take time to catch up, and a few verified records show no date. Check again in a week; if you asked for the weekly re-check we’ll do it for you. If it still doesn’t show, contact Companies House with your verification reference.
- Is there one deadline for everyone?
- No. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act made verification compulsory from 18 November 2025, with a year’s transition for people already in post, but each person’s date is their own: for a director, the filing deadline of the company’s first confirmation statement after that; for a PSC who isn’t a director, the first 14 days of their birth month. Most fall before 18 November 2026 and the last on 1 December 2026. The register shows each person’s date, and so does this checker.