Which documents can we read?
Passwave verifies you by reading the chip inside your passport or ID card with your phone. That only works where the issuing country publishes the certificates that prove a chip is genuine. Here is where each country stands today.
Supported today
132 COUNTRIESHold your document against the back of your phone and you're verified in under a minute. No upload, no photo of a photo.
A country is listed here because we hold the certificates its issuing authority publishes, which is what lets us tell a genuine document from a forged one. You still need a phone with NFC and a document with a chip in it, and whether any particular site accepts documents from a given country is always that site's own decision.
Europe
46Americas
22Asia-Pacific
24Middle East & Africa
40Likely available soon
15 IN CERTIFICATIONThese are the countries closest to moving up, and they are waiting on two different things. Some have joined the ICAO directory, but their signing certificates have not surfaced in any published master list yet. Others are still rolling out documents with a chip at all. We don't publish target dates, because none of this is a commitment anyone has made to us.
Chip passports were issued from 2011 to 2017; current passports carry no chip. A new biometric programme is due to start issuing in autumn 2026.
An ICAO directory participant whose signing certificate has not surfaced in any master list yet.
An ICAO directory participant whose signing certificate has not surfaced in any master list yet.
An ICAO directory participant whose signing certificate has not surfaced in any master list yet.
An ICAO directory participant whose signing certificate has not surfaced in any master list yet.
Only the 2021 diplomatic and special series carries a chip. A general e-passport was contracted in December 2023 and is still in procurement.
An ICAO directory participant whose signing certificate has not surfaced in any master list yet.
An ICAO directory participant since July 2026. The certificate behind its current chip documents has not surfaced in any published master list yet.
An ICAO directory participant whose signing certificate has not surfaced in any master list yet.
An ICAO directory participant since June 2026. The certificate behind its current chip documents has not surfaced in any published master list yet.
An e-passport has been announced; as of early 2026 the country was still issuing passports without a chip.
E-passport launch targeted for early 2026; procurement concluded in late 2025.
The move away from the current machine-readable passport was authorised in the 2024/25 budget.
Biometric passport rollout was approved in 2024, with implementation from 2025.
An ICAO directory participant whose signing certificate has not surfaced in any master list yet.
Not available yet
51 countries you can't verify by chip today. For most of them, the document has no chip to read, or the issuing authority keeps its certificates off the public directory, so there is no way to prove a chip is genuine. If yours is here, the app falls back to a document check instead.
No chip in current documents
41Taken from public biometric-passport adoption tables rather than checks we've run one by one. If your document does have a chip, tell us and we'll correct this.
Certificates not published
9These documents read fine. Their certificates are shared only through diplomatic channels, so we can't prove a chip is genuine yet.
Not supported
1Its signing certificate is published in the ICAO directory, but we do not verify North Korean documents.
Your country isn't listed?
You can still verify. Where we can't read a chip, the app falls back to a document check with a supported ID provider in your region. It takes a little longer and gets you to the same place.
Adding a country is a certificate exchange, not a code change. Tell us which one you need and we'll tell you honestly where it sits.
LAST REVIEWED 24 JUL 2026