You're required to verify your personal information for your account once your earnings reach the verification threshold. You need to verify your identity to continue to show ads and receive payments from Google AdSense. This is to confirm the accuracy of your account information and protect you from fraud.
Depending on your location, you may be asked to submit your government-issued photo ID and take a video selfie. AdSense is trialling this new process to improve user experience and strengthen its defences against fraud. Any data collected as part of the new process will be used solely for verification purposes.
Learn more about verifying your identity using online verification.
When you're required to verify your identity, we place a temporary payments hold on your account. Note that you won't be asked to verify your address via PIN until after you've successfully verified your identity.
Note: You have 45 days from the date that we first ask you to verify your identity to submit the required documents in your account. After 45 days, if you haven't provided the documents or we're still unable to verify your identity from the documents that you have provided, we'll stop showing ads on your pages.
How to verify your identity
Sign in to your account and follow the instructions on your 'Payments' page.
- In AdSense, click Payments, then Verification check.
- In AdMob, click Payments, then Verification.
Submit your documents
Here are some tips to successfully submit your documents:
- Use the same full name in all the documents.
- Submit documents that are current and not expired.
- Submit both the front and back sides of your document.
- Capture the entire document; the photo needs to be readable and in focus.
- Your image shouldn't have reflections and glare.
- Incomplete or obstructed documents or dark or blurry photos won't be accepted.
- Uploading documents or photos other than your ID may result in account suspension.
- If your document is two-sided, capture the front and the back and upload both images.
Document requirements for individual accounts
Your ID document must be a government-issued ID such as a passport, national/state ID, driving licence or residence permit (depending on your country). Note this is not an exhaustive list.
Document requirements for organisation accounts
- Proof of organisation document
- Valid government-issued photo ID from an authorised representative
- allow Google to confirm the current existence of the organisation; expired documents or documents suggesting that the organisation does not exist or no longer exists can’t be accepted.
- be issued by an issuing authority, i.e. federal/state/municipal government, public institution (tax authority, securities and exchange commission, etc.), chamber of commerce, business registry, etc. This does not include utility bills, bank statements, insurance statements or rental agreements.
If we can't verify your identity
Sometimes we're unable to verify your identity from the documents you provide, for example, if your documents are blurry or unreadable. We'll let you know if this happens and invite you to resubmit.
To prevent abuse, we only allow a limited number of verification attempts. If you've reached your limit of attempts, use our identity verification troubleshooter to find out what steps to take next. If your issue is still not resolved, contact us via this form.
Why your ID wasn't accepted and how to fix the issue
Expand all Collapse allChanging your payments profile name after you complete identity verification
After you've successfully verified your identity, you may not be able to change your name in your payments profile. If you have a valid reason to change your name, contact us.