What changed, and what you have to do about it
Rules around verification move, and the change usually lands on the employer rather than the provider. These are the ones that have altered how a check is run in India, written for the person who has to act on them.
This is not a press page
There is no company news here, and that is deliberate. Nothing we announce about ourselves changes how you run a check.
What does change it is regulation, and the quiet operational changes underneath regulation: a source that stops returning a field, a portal that moves to a new address, a state that puts its police verification online. Those do not get announced anywhere useful. An employer usually finds out when a case that used to close in a week does not.
So this page carries those, and only those. Each piece says what changed, when, what it means in practice for an employer running checks, and what to do differently. If nothing has changed, nothing gets posted.
Where a change is still being implemented in stages, the piece says so rather than presenting a draft position as settled law. Anything we are unsure about is marked as such.
Current updates
Four changes that affect how a check runs today.
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 changed what an employer has to be able to show about consent, notice, retention and a candidate's rights over their own data. What it asks for, in the language of the work rather than the statute, and what a compliant consent record has to contain.
9 min readReadThe EPFO member record is the single most useful employment history in India, and what it exposes has narrowed. What a UAN check can still confirm, what it never could, and why a UAN gap is not the same thing as a lie.
8 min readReadPolice verification is administered by state police, not centrally, so the same check behaves differently in every state. Which states run it online, what each one asks for, and why a national turnaround figure for this check is meaningless.
8 min readReadCompany filings at the Ministry of Corporate Affairs are public, and they say things about a senior candidate that a CV will not: undisclosed directorships, struck-off companies, disqualification. What is on the register and how to read it.
7 min readReadElsewhere in resources
Twelve pieces on how each check runs, how to scope a package, and how to read what comes back.
All guides Research & analysisLonger pieces that work something out: discrepancy anatomy, cost models, sector risk, provider evaluation.
Research Trust CentreHow GVS handles consent, retention and access, and the documentation your compliance team will ask for.
Trust CentreNot sure a change affects you?
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