Driver's License Verification guide

Vouched's Drivers License Verification (DLV) is a feature that validates the data from driver’s licenses, learner’s permits, and government-issued IDs in 45 US states. Additionally, while not being counted as one of 50 states, Washington DC has its own driver's license that can be verified with Vouched DLV.

US territories defined as insular areas (such as Puerto Rico) are not supported.

Driver’s License Verification validates the printed data fields from the driver’s license with government and proprietary data sources to ensure that the data on the license is legitimate.

Validated fields

As part of the DLV check, the following fields are validated:

Data Field	Supported in 44 States	Supported in California
Driver’s License Number	V	V
License Type (ie. Commercial)	V
Last Name	V	V
Date of Birth	V	V
Expiration Date	V
State	V	V

Unsupported states

DLV is currently supported in all states except for the following:

• Alaska
• Louisiana
• Minnesota
• New York
• Utah

Enabling DLV

• To enable the DLV feature, please reach out to Vouched Support.
• Once the feature is enabled, the DLV check will automatically be added to all IDV jobs.

Toggle DLV in the JS Plugin

By default, the DLV check runs automatically for all IDV jobs. If you're using the JS plugin, the DLV feature can be toggled on or off for a specific job.

To toggle the DLV feature on or off, set enableDriversLicenseValidation to true or false inside the verification object in the JS Plugin. 

DLV Results

In the Dashboard

To view a job's DLV results, open the job in the Vouched Dashboard and click on the DLV tab. The following fields are displayed:

• Job Status: The overall status of the DLV check. The possible values can be:
  • Pending
  • Completed
  • Error 
• Check Performed: Confirms if the DLV check was run:
  • true - the check was run successfully.
  • false - the check may still be in progress, the ID state may be unsupported, or there was an error retrieving the information.
• Approval: 
  • Approved - all fields match between the license and the data source.
  • Not Approved - at least one field does not match between the license and the data source.
• Source:
  • governmental - government source.
  • nonGovernmental - proprietary source.
• Matches:
  • Each field that was checked will be displayed along with the match status. If any field returns false, this indicates that the data on the license does not match and the job will be rejected.

In the job response

A DLV object is included under the result object of any job response. The response can be accessed by setting a callbackURL or using the Find Jobs API.

The job response contains all of the fields described above in the Dashboard, but there are a few different names: 

• Job Status in the Dashboard = dlvStatusMessage in the job response.
• Check Performed in the Dashboard = wasCheckPerformed in the job response.
• Approved in the Dashboard = status in the job response.

Additionally, the job response contains the fieldMatchesSucceeded, fieldMatchesFailed, and fieldMatchesUnavailable objects. 

If at least one field appears under fieldMatchesFailed, the job will produce a Not Approved result.

An example of the DLV object:

"dlv": {  "dlvStatusMessage": "Completed",  "dlvEnabled": true,  "result": {  "stateSupported": true,  "checkPerformedAt": "2023-02-23T23:24:54.000Z",  "wasCheckPerformed": true,  "status": "Not Approved",  "source": "nonGovernmental",  "fieldMatchesAvailable": [  "licenseNumber",  "lastName",  "birthDate"  ],  "fieldMatchesFailed": [  "lastName",  "birthDate"  ],  "fieldMatchesSucceeded": [  "licenseNumber"  ],  "fieldMatchesUnavailable": [  "expirationDate",  "issueDate"  ]  } }