This is the core of Itefaaq. No one browses an unverified profile — ever.
🔒 Your ID and license documents are encrypted and shown to no one — not even our team, beyond what's needed to verify you.
Government-issued ID plus a live selfie match, confirming you are who you say you are. Typical turnaround: same day.
NPI validation (US) or provincial college registry check (Canada), plus license standing. Typical turnaround: 1–3 business days.
A short set of questions on marriage timeline, family involvement, and relocation openness. Typical turnaround: immediate.
1. Submit. Upload your government ID and take a live selfie. Submit your NPI or license number.
2. Automated check. We run an automated match against the NPI registry where available.
3. Manual review. A human reviewer confirms anything the automated check can't resolve — this covers most Canadian provincial checks, which don't yet have public APIs.
4. Approval or hold. Once confirmed, your profile goes live. If something doesn't match, we contact you directly rather than rejecting silently.
Profiles that can't be verified — expired licenses, mismatched names, unconfirmed affiliations — are held and the applicant is contacted directly to resolve the discrepancy. They never appear in search in the meantime. If we determine credentials were deliberately falsified, the account is permanently terminated and not eligible for re-application.
We show exactly what's been checked, not a single vague "verified" label. Each badge means one specific thing:
Email Verified, Phone Verified, NPI Verified, Professional Email Verified. Confirms you control the account and hold a real, active credential.
A team member manually checked a submitted LinkedIn profile for consistency with your stated specialty and career stage. Human judgment, not automated.
Government ID plus a live selfie match, confirming the account belongs to the specific person who holds the credential. Currently opt-in where available.
In plain terms: Tiers 1 and 2 confirm your credential is real and your account is genuinely yours. Only Tier 3 confirms you are physically the person that credential belongs to. We verify credentials and account ownership; we do not fully verify real-world identity unless Identity Verification is completed.