Guatemala CUI
Overview
Guatemala's CUI platform that enables citizens to access, verify, and manage their national identity information online for use in public services and administrative processes.
- ID:
guatemala-cui-lookup - Type: eID (database)
- Verification Type: Enrichment
- Regions: Latin America
- Countries: GT
- Adoption: 18,000,000
- URL: https://www.renap.gob.gt/noticias/que-es-el-cui
Integration with Trinsic
Guatemala CUI verification is integrated into Trinsic's identity acceptance network allowing businesses to verify users against the government system of record in Guatemala.
- Permission required: Yes, this method requires registration before you can activate it for your users. Please contact Trinsic to begin this process.
- Cost: Contact the Trinsic team.
User Flow
The user provides their Personal Identification Document (CUI) number. The system retrieves and returns full identity information from the government database.
Direct API Requirements
Direct API is not a requirement.You can integrate with this provider using the Hosted UI instead, with no additional integration requirements on your end.
What your integration must support in order to use this provider with the Direct Provider Sessions API.
- Supports Direct Provider Sessions: ✅
- Launch Method:
None— No user-facing action is required to start the flow. - Collection Method:
PollResult— Results arrive asynchronously; poll with theresultsAccessKeyreturned at session creation. - Requires Input: This provider requires input before verification can proceed.
- Trinsic-Hosted UI: A Trinsic-Hosted Fallback UI exists for this provider, which may be invoked to cover gaps in your integration's capabilities.
Outputs
Normalized AttributesThese attributes form part of our normalized model, a standardized set used across providers. Trinsic normalizes this for you and lets you know when a property is available for each provider.
| Field | Availability | Notes |
|---|---|---|
person.givenName | Always | - |
person.familyName | Always | - |
person.fullName | Always | - |
person.dateOfBirth | Always | - |
person.sex | Always | - |
document.type | Always | - |
document.number | Always | - |
document.issuingCountry | Always | - |
| Field | Optional | Description | Example Values |
|---|---|---|---|
fullName | Yes | Full name, including given and family names of the CUI holder. | JUAN CARLOS PEREZ GARCIA |
givenName | Yes | Given name(s) of the CUI holder. | JUAN CARLOS |
familyName | Yes | Family name(s) of the CUI holder, including maternal and paternal names. | PEREZ GARCIA |
dateOfBirth | Yes | Date of birth of the CUI holder. | 1999-01-13 |
documentNumber | Yes | The Guatemalan Código Único de Identificación (CUI) number. Assigned and maintained by RENAP (Registro Nacional de las Personas). Official format: exactly 13 numeric digits. 8 RENAP-assigned serial digits, 1 verifier digit (dígito verificador), and 4 geographic digits for department and municipality of birth. The CUI is printed on the Documento Personal de Identificación (DPI) in three groups (4–5–4) separated by spaces. Trinsic normalizes to digits-only when returning the result, automatically removing spaces, dots, hyphens, and other non-alphanumeric characters. No verifier algorithm appears in publicly accessible RENAP resources. Community-maintained validators often use modulus-11 (non-official). | 1234567890101 |
serialDigits | Yes | The first 8 digits of the CUI: the portion RENAP assigns from its registration system, before the verifier digit and the four-place geographic codes. Called the “serial” numbers in community-maintained validators. | 12345678 |
verifierDigit | Yes | The 9th digit of the CUI (verifier digit / dígito verificador). No verifier algorithm appears in publicly accessible RENAP resources. However, community-maintained validators often use modulus-11 (non-official). | 9 |
geographicDigits | Yes | The last four digits encode birthplace department and municipality. There is not a publicly accessible dataset from RENAP for geographic codes. The INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos) provides a dictionary of variables (Educación Formal 2024) that includes statistical codes for decoding departments and municipalities. Be careful using these resources, as these codes are not official RENAP codes. They may not always map to the correct department and municipality for consular registrations, naturalizations, foreign residents, and other edge cases. For the dataset, see: https://datos.ine.gob.gt/dataset/educacion-formal-2024 under "Diccionario de Variables (Educación Formal 2024)" | 0101 |
sex | Yes | Sex of the CUI holder. Possible values: - Male - Female - Unknown | Male |
arrayName | Yes | All names of the CUI holder, as an array of strings (e.g. given and family name parts). | ["JUAN", "CARLOS", "PEREZ", "GARCIA"] |
Updated 9 days ago
