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Address verification checks
Whether you're hiring locally or internationally Zinc offers secure, fast, and compliant address verification checks to help you verify candidate locations. Our automated address check process ensures accuracy and supports smarter hiring decisions, without slowing your team down.
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Why verify an address during hiring?
Verifying a candidate’s address is a critical step in ensuring that the information they’ve provided is legitimate. An address check helps prevent identity fraud, supports right to work (RTW) documentation, and ensures compliance with industry standards.
With Zinc’s address verification system, you can confirm both current and past addresses using trusted sources, giving you peace of mind and reducing risk.
“Zinc has been so helpful and has reduced our time for background checks to be complete drastically. It is also super easy to use both from our side and employee sides - zero complaints”
Hannah Abraham
Operations Administrator
Benefits of Zinc's global address verification service
Accelerate hiring
Lightning-fast address checks
Address checks should take seconds, not days. Turn multiple manual checks into an automated process that fast-tracks hiring and frees up HR’s time for other projects.
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View detailed address reports
Zinc’s address verification system provides detailed reports based on both digital and physical proof options. Get all the information you need to make qualified hiring decisions and avoid costly mistakes.
How our address check process works
Zinc’s address check process is built for speed, accuracy, and candidate convenience. Here’s how it works:
Candidates upload identification to verify address history (e.g. passport, driving licence, utility bill).
Zinc integrates with Onfido to validate ID documents and access global databases, including credit agencies, national postal services, and electoral registers.
You receive a complete, verified address check report within 24 hours, supporting confident, compliant hiring.
FAQs about our address checks
Find answers to common questions about our address checks and processes.
How quickly can your software complete an address check?
At Zinc, address checks are typically completed within 24 hours.
Why are address checks important?
Address checks are one of the first ways you verify a candidate is who they say they are. It helps your business stay compliant with relevant regulations, prevent fraud, and ensure a safe working environment. It’s the first step in many other checks, including credit checks and criminal or DBS checks.
How do address verification systems work?
Address verification systems take your candidate’s proof of address (usually a utility bill, driving license, or bank statement) and check it against trusted sources like the electoral roll or credit reference records.
Zinc asks the candidate to upload their information and then automatically checks it against several sources, removing the manual process for you.
What is a valid address verification?
A valid address verification checks that the address information a candidate provides is true.
To do this, they can upload:
- A utility bill
- Bank statements
- Government correspondence
- Lease or rental agreements
- Mortgage statements
- Credit card statements
The document must be from an official source, have clearly displayed address information, and be recent — usually within the last three months.
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