Understand Companies House identity verification requirements for LLP members and PSCs and choose the appropriate professionally supported verification pathway for your circumstances.

Professional LLP Identity Verification.

Whether you are an LLP member, an individual with significant control or are preparing for a Companies House identity-verification requirement, our professional team helps you identify the applicable requirement and progress the appropriate verification route.

Understand which LLP members and Persons with Significant Control (PSCs) may need to complete Companies House identity verification and identify when the applicable requirement arises.

Identify the individual and relevant LLP capacity before determining which identity-verification requirement applies.

Prepare your identity information and supporting evidence correctly to reduce avoidable delays caused by missing, inconsistent or unsuitable information.

Choose the identity-verification route that matches your circumstances, evidence and applicable Companies House requirements.

Use the appropriate verification pathway, whether completing the available Companies House route directly or using professional support through an ACSP where appropriate.

Complete the required identity-verification stage and establish the resulting verification position for the affected LLP member or applicable individual PSC.

Use professional support where your identity evidence or circumstances require additional assessment, including where the standard verification route does not clearly address the situation.

Keep the verification position connected to the correct individual and LLP role so that personal identity information is not confused with the LLP's separate Companies House record.

Understand what happens after successful identity verification and how the Companies House Personal Code connects with the relevant individual and LLP role, where applicable.

Reduce avoidable administrative errors and back-and-forth by establishing the affected individual, LLP capacity, verification requirement and appropriate Companies House route before progressing the relevant procedure.

Determine Your LLP Identity Verification Route

Coddan CPM is a UK-based legal and corporate services firm providing professional support with Companies House identity verification for LLP members and, where applicable, PSCs through its ACSP framework.
Call us on: 033 0808 0089 to discuss the appropriate LLP identity-verification route for your circumstances, whether you are based in the UK or overseas.

LLP ID Verification

LLP identity verification

Identity Verification for LLP Members and PSCs

You may be forming an LLP, admitting a new member, approaching a confirmation statement or dealing with a person with significant control. Coddan helps establish who currently needs to verify, which route is suitable and what LLP work remains after the identity check.

Start with the person, role and LLP event. Identity verification is personal to the individual. It does not incorporate the LLP, admit a member, create PSC status, authorise a filing or correct the register.

Is this the right service for your LLP?

Use this entrance when you need to establish the identity-verification position before choosing a specialist LLP service. We separate the identity check from membership, control, filing and record work.

You are forming an LLP

Proposed individual members must be considered before incorporation. The LLP application, membership arrangements, PSC information and Personal Code use remain separate parts of the work.

A member is joining or already registered

The correct route depends on whether the individual is proposed, newly admitted or an existing member within the transition, and on the relevant LLP date.

An individual is or may be a PSC

PSC status follows the LLP's actual ownership and control arrangements. An individual PSC has a role-specific identity-verification and Personal Code process.

The structure is uncertain or complex

Corporate members, RLEs, overseas people and overlapping member and PSC capacities require classification before a current requirement or service route is stated.

Who may need to complete Companies House identity verification?

The current answer depends on the legal capacity held by the person. These are the entrance-level distinctions; detailed role classification belongs in the specialist capacity service.

Proposed or new individual member

An individual becoming an LLP member is within the current framework. Verification and the correct Personal Code step must be considered alongside the real incorporation or admission event.

Existing individual member

An existing member follows the applicable transitional process, normally connected with the LLP's confirmation-statement cycle. The relevant date must be checked for the LLP.

Individual PSC

A living individual PSC has a separate current role-related requirement. Verification does not decide whether the person satisfies a PSC condition.

Corporate member, RLE or filer

Do not apply a future corporate-member, corporate-officer or general filer requirement as though it were current. An individual connected with the structure may still have a present duty in another capacity.

Ordinary and designated individual members meet the same identity standard. Designated status brings additional LLP responsibilities, but it does not by itself create a second identity check or a separate Personal Code.

One individual may hold several LLP capacities

A person may be an ordinary or designated member, an individual PSC and an authorised filer. The capacities can overlap, but they do not merge.

Member and designated member

The person verifies as an individual LLP member. Designation changes their statutory responsibilities, not the identity standard.

Member and individual PSC

The individual normally keeps one Personal Code, but provides it separately through the member and PSC processes applying to the LLP.

Member and authorised filer

Identity verification for a member does not itself confer authority to file. The general identity-verification requirement for people filing is a later requirement.

Need the detailed classification? The role service separates individual members, designated members, corporate members, RLEs, PSCs and filers before verification is arranged. Who Must Verify for an LLP? Members, Designated Members, Corporate Members and PSCs

Current, transitional and future requirements

Current requirements

Proposed and newly admitted individual LLP members, existing individual members when their transitional step applies, and individual PSCs are within the current mandatory framework. A person who holds both the member and PSC roles must deal with each role separately.

Transitional requirements

Mandatory identity verification began on 18 November 2025. Existing individual members generally provide their Personal Codes through the applicable LLP confirmation-statement process. Individual PSC periods depend on their circumstances. The transition is not one universal deadline for every LLP, member or PSC.

Future or uncommenced requirements

Companies House states that identity verification for corporate LLP members, relevant officers of corporate PSCs and people filing on behalf of entities will be introduced later. Those announced requirements are not presented here as current services or completed procedures.

Current-position wording checked on 20 September 2026. The applicable position should be checked again when the LLP event or filing is prepared.

Choose the verification route that fits the individual

The legal identity standard does not change with the route. Different members or PSCs connected with the same LLP may use different suitable routes.

Free Companies House route

An eligible individual may verify directly using the free official service. Professional ACSP assistance is not compulsory. The route may involve GOV.UK One Login and the evidence options currently supported by Companies House.

Use the free official guidance

Coddan's supported ACSP route

Where agreed, Coddan can coordinate a supported check, review the evidence and submit the required verification information through its Companies House authorised-agent account. Companies House—not Coddan—issues the Personal Code.

Discuss the supported route

Coddan does not charge for your own use of the free official route. You may still ask Coddan to undertake separately agreed LLP formation, filing, confirmation-statement, PSC or post-formation work.

How Coddan's supported verification route works

Coddan CPM Limited is registered with Companies House as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider, also called a Companies House authorised agent, and is supervised by HMRC for anti-money-laundering purposes. These functions remain distinct.

Stage 1

Identify the person and role

We identify the individual, LLP, affected capacity and event before opening the verification file.

Stage 2

Record the required details

Coddan records the required name, date of birth, residential address, email address and telephone number.

Stage 3

Complete the secure check

The individual receives a secure link by email or text and supplies supported identity and address evidence with the required selfie or liveness check.

Stage 4

Coddan reviews the result

We review the result, evidence and any exceptional or inconsistent information. A technology result is not treated as the whole ACSP decision.

Stage 5

Submit through the ACSP account

Where the evidence is satisfactory and Coddan is authorised, we manually submit the required verification information to Companies House.

Stage 6

Use the code for the LLP role

Companies House sends the Personal Code to the individual. Its use for each member or PSC role and the underlying LLP event remain separate.

Coddan's onboarding and anti-money-laundering checks, the provider's technology result, Coddan's evidence review, the ACSP submission, Companies House issue of the code and the LLP filing are separate stages. ACSP registration is not an endorsement and does not guarantee acceptance of a filing.

What Coddan checks

The LLP and capacity

Whether the LLP is proposed or registered, and whether the person is an individual member, designated member, PSC or holds several roles.

The relevant event and date

Incorporation, admission, existing membership, PSC status, confirmation statement, cessation or another event that determines the next step.

Current or later requirement

Whether the requirement is operational now, applies through the transition or belongs to an announced future category.

Suitable route and evidence

Whether the free official route is suitable or supported ACSP work is requested, including overseas and exceptional-evidence considerations.

Personal Code position

Whether verification is complete, the code has been issued or can be accessed, and which role-specific process needs it.

Work that remains separate

Incorporation, member admission or cessation, PSC analysis, filings, confirmation statements, correction and legal or governance work.

Your six-stage route

Identify the LLP and individual

Confirm the proposed or registered LLP and the person whose position must be established.

Separate the capacities

Establish whether the person is an individual member, designated member, individual PSC or holds more than one role.

Establish the event and timing

Identify the incorporation, admission, confirmation-statement or PSC date that controls the next step.

Choose the verification route

Use the free Companies House route where suitable or agree supported ACSP work with Coddan.

Complete verification

The individual completes the check and Companies House issues or makes available the Personal Code.

Connect the role and complete the event

Provide the code through each applicable role process and complete the valid LLP event or filing separately.

What information should you provide?

Provide what you know. “Not known” is an acceptable answer. Coddan will identify questions that require further evidence or professional review.

LLP details

The proposed or registered name, LLP number where one exists, jurisdiction and whether the LLP is being formed or already registered.

The individual and capacities

Full name, date of birth, residence and whether the person is proposed or existing member, designated member, PSC or holds several capacities.

Events and dates

Proposed incorporation or admission, existing appointment, confirmation-statement and PSC dates, and any Companies House notice received.

Verification route and status

Whether the free route or an ACSP was used, whether verification completed and whether the Personal Code was received or can be accessed.

Evidence and overseas factors

Document type, country of issue, address-evidence position, language or script issues and any accessibility difficulty.

Any difficulty or mismatch

Any unsuccessful attempt, name or date-of-birth difference, unmatched role or inconsistency between the LLP's records and Companies House.

Do not place your Personal Code, password, company authentication code or sensitive identity evidence in a general website enquiry. This section does not transmit an enquiry. Use Coddan's normal website contact details so that an appropriate secure route can be agreed.

What happens after identity verification?

Companies House issues or makes available an 11-character Personal Code after successful verification. The code belongs to the individual rather than to the LLP, and the same person normally keeps the same code for relevant companies, LLPs and roles.

Member role

The code is provided through the process applying to incorporation, a new member's appointment or an existing member's confirmation-statement transition.

PSC role

The same code is provided separately through the applicable PSC process. Member use does not automatically complete the PSC step.

Underlying LLP event

Code use does not create the role. Incorporation, admission, control information and the related filing must still be valid and correctly completed.

What identity verification does not do

Identity verification and Personal Code use do not incorporate an LLP, admit or remove a member, make an individual a designated member, create or end PSC status, determine disputed ownership or control, confer filing authority or correct an inaccurate register.

They also do not replace an LLP agreement, member consent or decision, a required Companies House filing, a confirmation statement, internal records, anti-money-laundering checks, tax work, restoration, registrar action, court proceedings or legal advice.

Who is responsible for each stage?

The individual

Supplies accurate information and genuine evidence, completes the personal check and protects the Personal Code.

The LLP and its members

Remain responsible for valid membership events, accurate control information, instructions, authority, internal records and required filings.

Coddan

Performs only the classification, verification, preparation, filing or coordination work it is authorised and engaged to undertake.

Companies House and advisers

Companies House controls its services, codes, register and filing acceptance. Courts and professional advisers control matters within their own authority.

What affects the work, cost and timing?

The free Companies House route remains available where suitable. Not every LLP event needs another paid verification service, and reuse of a Personal Code is not automatically a new verification purchase.

The number of individuals, LLPs and affected member or PSC roles.
Whether the role, event, dates and supporting LLP records are clear and consistent.
UK or overseas residence, available evidence, language or accessibility issues and exceptional review.
Whether verification has already completed and the Personal Code is available.
Whether incorporation, admission, PSC, confirmation-statement, correction or governance work is separately required.
Coddan's agreed professional charge and VAT, applicable official charges and separately required legal or specialist work.

Frequently asked questions

Which people connected with an LLP currently need to verify?

Individual LLP members and individual PSCs are within the current framework. The timing and code-use process depend on the role, event and date. Corporate-member and general filer requirements are not treated as current merely because they have been announced.

Does a designated member complete an extra identity check?

No additional check arises merely from designation. An individual designated member verifies as an individual LLP member. The designation brings additional LLP responsibilities.

Must a corporate LLP member verify now?

Companies House states that identity verification for corporate LLP members will be introduced later. Current membership, RLE and PSC information must still be assessed and reported correctly.

Is every LLP member a PSC?

No. PSC status depends on the applicable rights and actual influence or control. A person may be a member without being a PSC, or a PSC without being a member.

What if the same person is a member and an individual PSC?

The person normally verifies once and retains one Personal Code, but provides it separately through the applicable member and PSC processes. One use does not automatically complete the other role.

Can I verify free of charge?

An eligible individual may use the free official Companies House route. Professional ACSP assistance is optional, although separate LLP formation, filing or compliance work may still be required.

Can an overseas LLP member complete identity verification?

Yes, subject to the route and supported evidence available to that individual. Overseas residence does not remove the member requirement, but document and evidence handling may differ.

Who issues the Companies House Personal Code?

Companies House issues or makes available the Personal Code after successful verification. Coddan and its secure identity-verification provider do not create or issue it.

Does verification admit someone as an LLP member?

No. Verification confirms identity within the Companies House framework. Membership requires a valid underlying admission and the appropriate LLP records and filing.

Will verification correct an inaccurate Companies House record?

No. A mismatch may concern the identity information, the Personal Code, the LLP filing or a disputed event. The source of the problem must be identified before the appropriate corrective route is selected.

Is 18 November 2026 one deadline for every LLP member and PSC?

No. Mandatory verification began on 18 November 2025, but the relevant date depends on the individual's role and circumstances, including incorporation, appointment, the confirmation statement or the PSC period.

Start with the LLP role and real event

Tell Coddan who is involved, the capacity held and what the LLP is trying to complete. We can identify the applicable route and keep verification separate from the membership, PSC, filing or corrective work.

Contact Coddan

LLP Member and PSC Identity Verification.

Understand Companies House identity verification requirements for LLP members and PSCs and choose the appropriate professionally supported verification pathway for your circumstances.

Whether you are an LLP member, an individual with significant control or are preparing for a Companies House identity-verification requirement, our professional team helps you identify the applicable requirement and progress the appropriate verification route.

Follow the LLP identity-verification journey from identifying the affected role through confirming the requirement, completing the appropriate verification route and connecting the result to the LLP's Companies House position.