The new Companies House ‘Identity Verification Process’ launched on 18 November 2025, making it a legal requirement for new and existing Company Directors and Persons with Significant Control (PSCs) to verify their identity over a 12-month period, as and when their company’s annual Confirmation Statement and PSC ID are due for filing.

This verification process will help deter those wishing to use companies for illegal purposes.

Anyone setting up, running, owning or controlling a company in the UK needs to verify their identity over this 12-month period in order to prove they are who they claim to be.

We have been writing to clients over the past few months and are continuing to do so before it is time for us to file their company’s annual Confirmation Statement and PSC ID, with full details of how to apply to Companies House for their unique filing code.

Once you have received an email from us, you should attend to it without delay.

It is also extremely important that you forward the unique filing code to us as soon as it has been received from Companies House, as we are unable to file the company’s Confirmation Statement and PSC ID without it and this may incur unnecessary late filing fines and penalties.