Portugal runs on the Cartão de Cidadão. Verify with it.
The Cartão de Cidadão is Portugal’s national digital identity, the Citizen Card used across public and private services. Accept it for remote identity verification in Portugal through one Trinsic API, alongside the eIDs of 50-plus other countries.
Portuguese digital ID is already at scale
The Cartão de Cidadão is Portugal’s national digital identity, the Citizen Card used across public and private services. Trinsic accepts the Cartão de Cidadão today for remote identity verification, handling the relying-party registration and assurance mapping so you receive one normalized, signed result.
Trinsic offers Portuguese ID acceptance now
Connect through Trinsic once and accept the Cartão de Cidadão, alongside the eIDs of 50-plus other countries, through a single integration.
Aggregation
One integration, every Portuguese ID
the Cartão de Cidadão (Citizen Card) for Portugal, plus government wallets, bank IDs, and mobile driver’s licenses across 50-plus countries, all through one integration.
Interface
Portuguese IDs, normalized to one result
Trinsic runs the Portuguese eID flows and returns verified attributes in one normalized result, so a check in Portugal looks the same to your systems as any other credential in the network.
Regulation
High assurance, compliance-ready
The Cartão de Cidadão is built to eIDAS assurance levels, and Trinsic maps that assurance to what your use case needs. Portuguese eID-based verification is a strong fit for KYC and customer due diligence under Portuguese AML rules and the EU AMLR that applies from July 2027.
Live now
Demo Portuguese verification today
The Cartão de Cidadão is live in the Trinsic network today. Book a demo and verify a Portuguese user in seconds.
Portugal is one market in a planet-wide network
With Trinsic, the Cartão de Cidadão sit alongside government wallets, bank IDs, and mobile driver’s licenses from 50-plus countries, all through the same API.
Trust tops our priority list
The Cartão de Cidadão is built on strong assurance and strict privacy rules, and Trinsic is built to match.
Zero-access encryption
Customer verification data can’t be accessed at rest, even by Trinsic.
Consent & data minimization
Request only the attributes a use case needs; honor the wallet’s consent and selective-disclosure model.
Assurance you can map
We translate the eIDAS assurance level of the Cartão de Cidadão into one model you can map to your own risk decisions.
Certified & audited
SOC 2 Type II and GDPR-aligned, with reports and attestations available on request.
Resources
Know where to prioritize acceptance
Digital ID Opportunity Zones ranks the markets where digital ID acceptance pays off first, so you know where to prioritize. Portugal sits among Europe’s highest-readiness markets.
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Portugal, answered
What is the Cartão de Cidadão, and can I accept it?
Which Portuguese digital IDs can I accept?
Do I have to register with each provider directly?
What assurance level do Portuguese IDs provide?
Can Portuguese IDs satisfy KYC and AML checks?
How do I get started?
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