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  • Getting Started
    • Introduction
    • How Verifa Works
    • Quickstart
    • Choosing an Integration Method
  • Use Cases
    • KYC Onboarding
    • Age Verification
    • AML Compliance
    • Fraud Prevention
    • Marketplace Trust & Safety
  • Core Concepts
    • Overview
    • Sessions
    • Verifications & Checks
    • Workflows
    • Identities
    • Cases
    • Screening & Reports
    • Lists
  • Integration Guides
    • Overview
    • JavaScript SDK
    • Web Capture Flow
    • API-Only Integration
    • Mobile SDK
    • Webhooks Guide
    • MCP Server
    • Migrating from Persona
  • API Details
    • Overview
    • Authentication
    • Pagination
    • Rate Limiting
    • Versioning
    • Errors
    • Webhooks
    • Idempotency
    • Key Inflection
    • Data Access
    • Data Retention
  • Tutorials
    • Creating Your First Verification Session
    • Creating a Workflow
    • Receiving Webhooks & Validating Signatures
    • Handling Webhook Events
    • Custom Document Types & AI Extraction
  • Best Practices
    • Testing
    • Preventing Duplicates
    • Fraud Signals
    • Changelog
  • API Reference
      • GETList identity types
      • POSTCreate an identity type
      • GETGet an identity type
      • DELDelete an identity type
      • PATCHUpdate an identity type
API ReferenceIdentity Types

Get an identity type

GET
https://devapi.withverifa.com/api/v1/identity-types/:type_id
GET
/api/v1/identity-types/:type_id
$curl https://devapi.withverifa.com/api/v1/identity-types/type_id \
>     -H "X-API-Key: <apiKey>"
1{
2  "id": "idtype_abc123",
3  "org_id": "string",
4  "name": "customer",
5  "label": "Customer",
6  "is_default": true,
7  "created_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
8  "description": "string",
9  "statuses": [
10    "pending",
11    "verified",
12    "rejected",
13    "under_review",
14    "merged",
15    "redacted"
16  ],
17  "default_status": "pending",
18  "updated_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z"
19}
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Authentication

X-API-Keystring

Organization API key. Keys are prefixed with vk_live_ (production) or vk_sandbox_ (sandbox).

Path parameters

type_idstringRequired

Identity type ID (idtype_*).

Headers

Verifa-VersiondateOptional

API version date string (e.g. 2026-02-01). If omitted, the version pinned to your API key is used.

Key-InflectionenumOptionalDefaults to snake

Response key casing. Defaults to snake.

Allowed values:

Response

Identity type details.
idstring
org_idstring
namestring
labelstring
is_defaultboolean
created_atdatetime
descriptionstring
statuseslist of strings
default_statusstring
updated_atdatetime

Errors

401
Unauthorized Error
404
Not Found Error