Does DIA provide a verification service for Passports to companies

Cody C made this Official Information request to Department of Internal Affairs

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From: Cody C

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

We hereby request the following information under the Official
Information Act 1981:

Does DIA provide a verification service for Passport information to companies in New Zealand? If so, please provide any notes, regulations, guidelines, policies or other document used to provide this service.

I would prefer this information in electronic format please.

Yours faithfully,

Cody C

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From: Cody C

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

I still await a response or confirmation of receipt of my Official Information Act request. Under the OIA I would usually expect a response by March 06, 2014. Please find my original request below.

Yours faithfully,

Cody C

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

We hereby request the following information under the Official
Information Act 1981:

Does DIA provide a verification service for Passport information to
companies in New Zealand? If so, please provide any notes,
regulations, guidelines, policies or other document used to provide
this service.

I would prefer this information in electronic format please.

Yours faithfully,

Cody C

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From: Adrienne Watkin
Department of Internal Affairs


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Dear Cody C

 

Please find attached the response to your request - Does DIA provide a
verification service for passport information to companies in New Zealand?

 

Yours sincerely

 

Adrienne Watkin | Business Support Officer | Passports

The Department of Internal Affairs

Telephone 0800 22 50 50 | +64 4 4639360 | www.dia.govt.nz

[1]http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/Fi...

 

 

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Cody C left an annotation ()

In short, yes, the DIA does provide a verification service to some entities directly and also to some intermediary entities.

One of the companies is called Information Logistics Company Limited. I'll be looking into this a bit further...

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Robert Coup left an annotation ()

@Cody - fwiw these folks are local and do verification including data from DIA: http://www.verifidentity.com/

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Cody C left an annotation ()

I understand that except the other company, from some postings I found around the internet, is actually selling DIA services back to other government departments.

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