Verifying for Companies House from Jordan
You do not have to come to the UK, and you do not have to hold a British passport. But plenty of valid Jordanian passports have no chip in them, and the free GOV.UK app works by reading the chip. That is the part worth settling first.
Overseas Verify · Last updated 11 September 2026
Your Jordanian passport may well not have a chip
Jordan launched its chipped passport on 1 September 2025, and its Ministry of Interior says citizens may still choose a traditional paper passport instead. A Jordanian passport runs for five years. So the great majority of Jordanian passports in use today were issued before the chip existed at all.
So the passport in your hand today may well have no chip in it. If it does not, the GOV.UK app cannot read it, and the Post Office route needs a UK address and you there in person. That is the gap an authorised agent fills. Check yours first, because if it does have a chip the free route is open to you.
This is not our reading of the rules. GOV.UK's own guidance to the services using One Login says that people who are not British citizens and live overseas can only prove their identity with the app, and will also need a chipped passport. Read what GOV.UK tells its own services
The paper passport is still an option in Jordan
Jordan's chipped passport is barely a year old, and its Ministry of Interior has said the traditional paper passport remains an available choice for citizens until new regulations are issued. So even someone applying today may come away without a chip. Jordanian passports run five years, which means a chip could be present in at most a small fraction of the books now in circulation, and the real share is lower still because it is optional within that fraction. Ignore articles dating the launch to early 2025 or to June 2024. Both of those targets slipped.
What actually stops people
Three things, none of them your nationality. The chip is the first, and it is what this page is about. The second is the phone: the GOV.UK app needs an iPhone 8 or newer on iOS 16.7 or later, or Android 10 or later, and many cheaper Android phones cannot read a chip at all whatever version they run, because they have no reader in them. The third is the address step, which is where most of the difficulty in our own work sits. If any of the three stops you, that is when an authorised agent is worth paying for.
Your documents can stay as they are
Nothing needs translating before you send it. Most of the proof-of-address documents we assess are not in English, and any translation needed is arranged at our end at no extra cost. A bank statement is the usual one. Download it as a PDF rather than photographing your banking app, and copy the address into the form exactly as the bank prints it.
Your deadline is not in November
The date people remember, 18 November 2026, is about the end of the transition period and Companies House says plainly it is not a deadline. What matters is your company’s next confirmation statement, and for most companies that falls earlier. The statement cannot be filed until every director named on it has verified, so one unverified director holds up the whole company.
We already work with Jordanian companies
Launchese looks after hundreds of companies with a Jordan address. Support is in English, and every case is reviewed by a person rather than passed or failed automatically.
If the free route does not work for you
We verify people of any nationality, living anywhere, and file your personal code with Companies House. A person reviews every case. If we cannot verify you, you are not charged.
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