How to get verified on LinkedIn in 2026

Check your identity, your job or your school from your own profile, and a badge shows next to your name. LinkedIn's help page says verification is optional, free and removable at any time. It also says verified members see 60 percent more profile views and 50 percent more engagement on average.

What can you verify on LinkedIn?

Three things: who you are, where you work and where you studied. LinkedIn's help page says each has its own rules for who can use it. Members who are signed in can click your badge to see which of the three you verified.

Through LinkedIn's partner for your country. In the US, Canada and Mexico it is CLEAR, with a government ID and a personal phone number from one of those countries. In India it is DigiLocker. In many other countries it is Persona, which mostly asks for a passport with a chip, called NFC.

Can you get verified on LinkedIn without an NFC passport?

In some countries. LinkedIn's Persona help page lists the IDs accepted in each one. Brazil and South Africa, for example, also accept a driver's licence or a national ID, and Germany accepts national IDs issued since August 2021. Where only passports are listed, you need one with the chip.

Why did my LinkedIn identity verification fail?

Most often because a name does not match. LinkedIn's help page says the name on your ID must match your profile, in every language your profile uses, and that your profile location must be a country Persona supports. Persona checks run in the LinkedIn mobile app; on a computer you scan a QR code to continue.

With your work email, where your company is supported. LinkedIn's help page says you enter your current work email, then type the code it sends, which expires after 15 minutes. People see the badge, never the email. A company LinkedIn Learning or Recruiter licence, or Microsoft Entra Verified ID, can also verify you.

Why can't I verify my workplace on LinkedIn?

Usually because your company is not on the list yet. LinkedIn's help pages say the work email check works only at select companies for now, and that a verified company Page lets its staff verify. If you run the Page, see how to verify a LinkedIn company page.

Do you have to verify to update your job on LinkedIn?

Sometimes. LinkedIn's help page on work email says you may need to complete workplace verification to add or edit your work experience. If LinkedIn asks for it, the same email code lets you make the change.

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