{"id":7546,"date":"2022-10-07T10:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/signdesk.com\/in\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2025-09-17T07:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:04:14","slug":"pan-verification-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/pan-verification-api","title":{"rendered":"Pan Verification API For Instant KYC Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #2c5363;\"><b>Introduction\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/digital-onboarding\">KYC<\/a>\u201d or <span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know Your Customer<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201d<\/span> is a set of standardized guidelines introduced by RBI in 2002 to protect financial institutions against fraud corruption, tax evasion, <a href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/money-laundering-stages\">money laundering<\/a>, and terrorist financing. KYC verification is a mandatory process that authenticates the customer\u2019s identity and verifies it with retrieved pre-existing documents in the government database. KYC verification can be done in multiple ways. Pan verification API is one of the quickest and fastest ways of digital KYC verification.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">PAN Verification API is a convenient process of PAN verification through the real-time Application Programming Interface (API) in a short time without a registered KYC official or any third party. By verifying with API, financial institutions can automate the task of<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/kyc-compliance-for-businesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital KYC<\/a> <\/span>without assigning any official. It is a cost-effective and time-efficient process that boosts productivity and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">PAN verification API<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> makes the onboarding process easier and quicker for customers and vendors as well. Technology-driven PAN verification API provides ease, convenience, and reliability without interacting with anyone but interacting with the API only.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #2c5363;\"><b>What is PAN Verification API?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The PAN verification API is an online <a href=\"https:\/\/signdesk.com\/digital-kyc\">eKYC<\/a> (electronic Know Your Customer) process designed to assist individuals in verifying their identity. PAN stands for &#8220;Permanent Account Number,&#8221; a distinctive alphanumeric code comprising 10 digits that is issued by the Income Tax Department. This API enables users to validate their identity through various online platforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">PAN is the backbone of financial transactions and an important economic tool to track all monetary transactions. Through PAN verification personal and business transactions can easily take place and be monitored. Financial Institutions need PAN details to maintain users\u2019 accounts, process transactions, and offer various financial services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">API stands for \u201c<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/automate-workflow-with-signdesks-api\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Application Programming Interface<\/a><\/span>\u201d. API is a data bridge that transfers data between two applications or software products. It acts as an intermediary layer that transmits data between applications and software products or web servers. It determines how applications communicate with each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">Verifying PAN through API is a convenient and simple verification process. Anyone can easily complete the <span style=\"color: #333333;\">KYC<\/span> process by using PAN verification API within minutes. PAN verification API follows an easy-to-follow process that includes providing and uploading the PAN card details through the API platform and extracting data that gets verified by identifying matching data retrieved from Government databases.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/talk-to-sales\"><button class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-submit envor-btn envor-btn-primary envor-btn-normal\" style=\"border-radius: 30px !important; background-color: #00b087; border: #00b087;\" type=\"button\"><strong>Get your Pan Verification API Now! <\/strong><\/button><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #2c5363;\"><b>Steps in the PAN Verification API Process<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The PAN verification API extracts data from the front image of the PAN card and verifies the data with retrieved pre-validated data in the ITD database.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7538\" src=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/How-To-Accelerate-KYC-With-Pan-Verification-API-02.jpg\" alt=\"Steps in the PAN Verification API Process\" width=\"770\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The PAN Verification API process follows a few easy steps and identification can be validated in less than 10 mins.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Data Extraction API Request<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The business sends an API request to start PAN verification<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>PAN Card Image uploaded<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The client captures an image of the PAN card (front only)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Image details converted to encoded text\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The scanned data is converted into machine readable text<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Data Extracted using OCR<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">OCR &amp; AI technology recognize and extract required data<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>KYC verified with the ITD database<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">Verification algorithms authenticate these data against standard databases<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>PAN Card is verified through the API Platform<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; padding-left: 30px;\">If the details match then PAN verification is completed<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 24px; font-family: 'open sans'; color: #2c5363;\"><b>Top Three PAN Verification APIs for <a style=\"color: #2c5363;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/digital-onboarding\">Digital Onboarding<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">Any PAN cardholder can verify PAN details through PAN Verification API in three ways. Using this process the KYC verification can be done instantly expediting the onboarding process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">All these processes of PAN card verification API follow a normal procedure of requesting document data as an input and producing a response of extracted data against that request as the output and validating the data in the final process concluding the verification process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The three processes of PAN verification API are as mentioned below.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"padding-left: 30px; color: #2c5363;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 19px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>PAN Verification API<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">This\u00a0 API takes the PAN number as the input.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><strong>The API response includes the following validated data:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Name of the PAN cardholder<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">PAN Number assigned to that specified cardholder<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4><span style=\"padding-left: 30px; color: #2c5363;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 19px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>PAN Extraction API<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The API uses OCR to capture the front image of the PAN card as the input.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><strong>The API response includes the following extracted data:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Name of the PAN cardholder<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">PAN Number assigned to that specific cardholder<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Date of Birth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Father\u2019s Name<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"padding-left: 30px; color: #2c5363;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 19px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>PAN Extraction &amp; Verification API<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The API fetches the details of the front image of the PAN card through the accessed camera of the user\u2019s phone in a real-time API platform. The details captured through the image are converted into encoded data using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">In this API, data is first extracted from the PAN card image and then verified using data aggregate algorithms as the second step.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><strong>The API takes the following extracted data as the input:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Name of the PAN cardholder<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">PAN assigned to that specific cardholder<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Date of Birth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Father\u2019s Name<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">Once these data are successfully extracted, the API verifies the information with the data retrieved from the ITD database.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><strong>The API response produces the following validated data:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Name of the PAN cardholder<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">PAN associated with that particular cardholder<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 22px; font-family: 'open sans'; color: #2c5363;\"><b>The Importance of PAN Verification API\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><a href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/why-document-verification-is-the-future-of-kyc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Document Verification<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s the future of KYC. Using PAN verification API, KYC can be processed instantly by acquiring demographic data such as the name, father\u2019s name, age, gender, DOB, and unique PAN number that signifies an individual\u2019s digital identification along with the financial status and transactional history determining the customer\u2019s economic strength and the risk of onboarding a customer.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">PAN card verification be done on applications, websites, and by the entities authorized under NSDL e-Government Infrastructure Limited. NSDL PAN card verification can be done in three ways.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">API Based<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">File Based<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">Screen Based<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">NSDL PAN verification API is an effective tool that can be leveraged to onboard instantly. It offers smooth, fast, and automated data verification via the API platform powered by smart AI technology.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 24px; font-family: 'open sans'; color: #2c5363;\"><b>Common Challenges in KYC Verification<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">There are many challenges that financial institutions face during KYC verification using PAN card numbers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Human Error:\u00a0<\/b>While inputting details, there is a high risk of human error or wrong data entry due to typos, low-resolution documents, blurred documents, mismatching, and lack of data.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Data Risk:\u00a0<\/b>There is a high risk of data mismanagement. The documents pass through many stakeholders for approval; and verification. Data can be easily manipulated, misplaced, fabricated, or used for fraudulent purposes.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Lengthy TATs:\u00a0<\/b>The process of <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/signdesk.com\/digital-kyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KYC<\/a> <\/span>verification through PAN is time-consuming in conventional ways as it takes more than 4-5 days. All the processes like applying, fetching details, checking, and cross-checking make the entire process slow.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Slow Onboarding:<\/b> As the process is slow, the KYC verification task gets slower for the organizations causing inefficient onboarding cycles.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Low Efficiency and Productivity:\u00a0<\/b>Due to slow processes, the organizations have low efficiency and productivity and are not able to fetch as many customers as they should and thus fail to meet their business goals. These organizations face low turnaround times and cause more operating costs for managing the processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 24px; font-family: 'open sans'; color: #2c5363;\"><b>Should Your Business Onboard With PAN Verification APIs?\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The PAN verification process can be done both online and offline. PAN number verification API falls under the category of digital KYC. API-based PAN verification is a comparatively faster process as it deals with fewer details. API platforms enhance and streamline the verification and onboarding process bringing a better customer experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">API integrations are extremely convenient for financial institutions for various reasons and can solve many existing problems during the verification processes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">Here are some of the reasons why businesses should be onboarding with the PAN verification API.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Instant Verification<\/b><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">: PAN card details can be verified virtually on the API platform instantly without filling out any paperwork and any delay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Speed and Security<\/b><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">: The API platform ensures safety and security without depending on third parties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Real-Time Verification<\/b><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">: On the API platform there is zero chance of identity theft and fraudulent activities. The user has to provide the document in real time and verification can be done momentarily.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Preventing Information Forgery<\/b><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">: The sensitive information of each user is completely safe in the API platform as it does not require third-party assistance.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Increased TAT<\/b><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">: Financial Institutions are able to achieve 99% turnaround time by using integrated API solutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Tracking Status<\/b><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">: As the PAN validation API works in online mode, the status of all KYC and PAN verification can be properly tracked with ease.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Financial Inclusion<\/b><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">: It empowers financial inclusions and can easily be availed by anyone. In remote locations where KYC officials or customers can not commute, with PAN verification API, account creation, KYC verification, maintaining transactions, and banking activities are easier.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The BFSI sector ( Banks, NEO Banks, NBFC, Financial Institutions), the Retail and<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/digital-stamping-for-vendors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FMCG sector<\/a>,<\/span> Esports, and the Pharmaceutical sector can make good use of integrated API technology to onboard more customers with instant PAN verification.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #2c5363;\"><b>How To Onboard Clients With the PAN Verification API<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The steps involved in PAN-based KYC verification using APIs are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Step 1:<\/b>\u00a0The client logs into the onboarding portal using a link<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Step 2:<\/b> Customer details are entered and the PAN card image is uploaded<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Step 3:<\/b> The API retrieves validated data and matches this with data obtained from the client<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\"><b>Step 4:<\/b> KYC is completed if the details are a match, otherwise the client must re-start the process<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">The PAN number verification API enables quick and secure KYC verification and allows businesses to scale up their onboarding process in a cost-effective manner.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 24px; font-family: 'open sans'; color: #2c5363;\"><b>Melento (Formerly SignDesk)\u2019s API Solutions For Hassle-Free KYC\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">provides many technological solutions through various software.<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/signdesk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Melento (Formerly SignDesk)<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>offers API platforms that can be integrated with any financial institution\u2019s website or applications through scan.It\u00a0 for KYC verification making easier onboarding of customers and vendors in financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans';\">Melento (Formerly SignDesk) offers the following <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/automate-workflow-with-signdesks-api\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>API<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; text-align: left;\">PAN verification<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> API<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/aadhaar-verification-api-for-business\">Aadhaar XML generation API<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/what-is-driving-license-verification-api\">Driving Licence Verification API<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; text-align: left;\">Voter ID verification API<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/what-is-passport-verification-api\">Passport verification API<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/din-verification\">DIN verification API<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/cin-verification\">CIN Verification API<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/gst-verification-api\">GSTN verification API<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/udyam-aadhaar-verification-api\">Udyog Aadhaar verification API<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: 'open sans'; 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