How to Get Verified on LinkedIn: Identity, Workplace and Company Page Verification

What Is LinkedIn Verification?

LinkedIn verification is an optional check that confirms your identity, current workplace or educational institution through a partner or a credential, and adds a verification badge next to your name.

LinkedIn's Verifications on your LinkedIn profile page (updated within the past month when read on October 7, 2026) lists the three types: identity, where a government-issued ID “was verified by one of LinkedIn's verification partners”; workplace, confirmed through a work email, Microsoft Entra Verified ID, a company-provided LinkedIn Learning license or an active LinkedIn Recruiter license; and educational institution, confirmed through a LinkedIn Learning license provided by the institution. Members who are signed in can see the badge and click it to see which verifications are active.

Page verification is different: it puts a badge on an organization's LinkedIn Page and lets that organization approve email domains for staff workplace verification (LinkedIn Page verification). Verified on LinkedIn is a third thing: an API that lets other platforms, with a member's permission, show that member's LinkedIn identity or workplace verification (Microsoft Learn). Before you start, see what buyers actually check on an executive LinkedIn profile; a badge sits on top of that profile, it does not replace it.

How to Get Verified on LinkedIn at a Glance

Time: a few minutes per member verification if your ID and phone are at hand (our estimate); Page verification can take up to 48 hours depending on your domain provider, and LinkedIn says up to ten days at busy times. Tools: the LinkedIn app on an iOS or Android phone with a camera; for Pages, desktop access and DNS access for your domain. Cost: member verifications are free; Page verification is tied to eligibility that LinkedIn says can include paid products. Skill level: beginner; the DNS step may need your IT team.

What You Need Before Starting

• The LinkedIn mobile app, updated, on a phone with camera access allowed. LinkedIn's CLEAR and Persona help pages say verification is not available in a desktop browser; on desktop you may be shown a QR code to continue on your phone.
• A valid government-issued ID of a type accepted in your country (see Step 3). For Persona this is usually an NFC-enabled passport, which carries the biometric chip symbol on the cover.
• For CLEAR: a personal phone number registered in your name in the U.S., Canada or Mexico. LinkedIn's CLEAR help pages say business, VoIP, MVNO and prepaid numbers are not accepted.
• A profile name that matches your ID, or willingness to show your ID name in brackets to signed-in members.
• For workplace verification: access to your current company email inbox.
• For Page verification: super admin access to the Page, the legal business name and address, and someone who can add a TXT record at your domain provider.

Step 1: Open Verify Now and Check Which Methods You Can Use

Open your profile in the LinkedIn app, find the verification entry point and tap Verify now. LinkedIn says each type of verification “has its own eligibility and availability criteria”, so the list you see is the list you can use.

Process: LinkedIn's help pages describe the route in slightly different words. The CLEAR and Persona pages say to tap Resources on your profile, then About this member, then Verify now; the DigiLocker page says More, then About this profile. The main verification page also links to verification settings directly. Labels may differ in your app version; look for the Verify now button.

Expected result: one or more options such as identity or workplace. How to verify: if no identity option appears, your profile location or country may not be supported yet. Common mistake: trying to finish on a laptop. The ID capture step runs only on a phone.

Step 2: Match Your Profile Name to Your Government ID

Change your LinkedIn name to match the name on your ID before you verify, or be ready to show your ID name alongside it. Every identity method checks this, and LinkedIn says the verification “will not be added” if the names do not match.

Rules (CLEAR, Persona, DigiLocker): the name on your ID must match your profile name, and, if you have a secondary-language profile, that one too. If it does not match, LinkedIn offers to display your ID name as an additional name: your legal name appears in brackets after your LinkedIn name. LinkedIn says that additional name is visible to signed-in members but not on public profiles, to signed-out visitors or in public search engine results, and that it cannot be edited. In the U.S., LinkedIn says that when names differ it may also check with a third-party partner for aliases you have used.

Expected result: names match. How to verify: compare your profile name, character for character, with your ID. Common mistake: changing your name later. LinkedIn warns that “if you change your name, you may have to re-verify”.

Step 3: Verify Your Identity With the Partner for Your Country

Choose the identity option, follow the partner's screens, and approve sharing the result with LinkedIn at the end. Identity verification is the badge that says a real, named person is behind the profile.

Sources: Identity verification by CLEAR, Identity verification using DigiLocker and Identity verification via Persona, which carries the country-by-country ID list (for example, the UK accepts NFC-enabled passports and residence permits; Ireland does not accept the Public Services Card). The Persona page was updated the day before we read it, so check it for your country; it now also lists the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and LinkedIn's CLEAR page says verification there may in some cases be processed by another partner. LinkedIn also links a separate page for verifying with a Republic of Korea digital ID.

Side effects: CLEAR and DigiLocker automatically enroll you in two-factor authentication using the phone number from verification; you can turn it off. Expected result: an identity verification on your profile; your ID itself is not shown, though LinkedIn “may display the issuing country”. How to verify: tap your own badge to see it listed. Common mistake: stopping before the share step. LinkedIn's CLEAR page says you “must complete this step” for the verification to be added.

Step 4: Verify Your Workplace With Your Work Email

Choose Verify your workplace, enter your current company email address, click Send code, and enter the code you receive. This shows that you currently work where your profile says.

Rules (Workplace verification with your work email): it is “only available to members working at select companies”; the email must match your current company's domain; the code “will expire 15 minutes after receipt”. Viewers see the verification, not your email address. LinkedIn notes you “may need to complete workplace verification to add or edit your work experience”. A toggle lets you save the work email to autofill future lead forms; it is off by default.

Other routes (LinkedIn Help): Microsoft Entra Verified ID, if your employer has enabled it for LinkedIn; a LinkedIn Learning license from your employer, if the company is included; or certain LinkedIn Recruiter roles, which can add a Verified Recruiter label. Educational institution verification works the same way through a school-provided LinkedIn Learning license.

Expected result: a workplace verification under your profile's verification details. How to verify: open your badge and check the company is listed. Common mistake: using a personal or alias domain your employer has not approved. LinkedIn says a verification may be removed if the organization changes its approved domains.

Step 5: Check Your Company Page Is Eligible for Verification

Go to your Page's super admin view on desktop, click Settings, and look for Verification controls. If the option is missing, LinkedIn says your Page is not eligible at this time.

Eligibility (LinkedIn Page verification, updated about two months before we read it): eligibility “may be based on meaningful engagement with LinkedIn, such as posting regularly, or responding to members, as well as having an established commercial relationship with LinkedIn”, including recurring products such as Ads, Jobs or a Premium Company Page subscription. LinkedIn states that Pages with a Premium Company Page subscription or paid Jobs or Ads “are automatically eligible”, and that verification “is not available if you are using a free trial version of Premium Company Page”. Review factors include the accuracy of data such as location and website URL, an active admin presence, the Page being claimed (not a Listing Page), and compliance with LinkedIn policies.

Expected result: Verification controls is visible. If it shows but you are not yet eligible, LinkedIn offers an Ask about verifying option to register interest; joining that waitlist does not guarantee verification. Common mistake: fixing nothing before applying. Make sure the Page's website URL and location match the organization's real details first; the same consistency helps search engines too (see how to add Organization schema markup).

Step 6: Request Page Verification and Confirm Domain Ownership

In Verification controls, click Request verification, then Get started, and enter your legal business name, website URL and business address. LinkedIn says that to verify a Page you must “prove ownership of your Page's website”.

Process (Request verification for your LinkedIn Page, Complete your Page verification process):

1. Submit the request. The status shows as Pending, and LinkedIn emails you the outcome.
2. If the request is approved, a Complete Page verification prompt appears. Click Complete verification and choose the company you bought your domain from.
3. Create a DNS TXT record with the exact code LinkedIn generates, which starts with linkedin-site-verification=.
4. Click Continue, review the record and click Submit request. LinkedIn says the code “must be published within 5 days of your request”.

Type:  TXT
Host:  @   (your root domain; your DNS provider's label may differ)
Value: linkedin-site-verification=XXXXXXXXXXXX

Expected result: a confirmation message and a badge visible to all members. LinkedIn says completion can take up to 48 hours depending on your domain provider and, at busy times, up to ten days. How to verify: Verification controls shows “Verified” with a date. Common mistake: pasting only the part after the equals sign. LinkedIn's fix for “Incorrect code” is to copy the entire value, prefix included.

Step 7: Approve Your Email Domains So Employees Can Verify

In Verification controls, click + Add domains, enter every email domain your staff use, and click Save. This is what lets employees complete Step 4 for your company.

Rules (Add an email domain to your organization's LinkedIn Page): “your Page must be verified” first; domains can be added only on desktop; LinkedIn suggests domains it associates with you, and suggested domains “will automatically be added after 14 days” unless you review them. A super admin can also verify their own workplace from the Page with a work email; LinkedIn says it then runs additional reviews using third-party vendors (LinkedIn Help).

Expected result: staff with those addresses can verify their workplace. How to verify: ask one employee to run Step 4. Common mistake: ignoring the suggested-domains list. Review it, because unreviewed suggestions are added automatically.

How to Verify It Worked

• Member badge: a verification badge appears next to your name; clicking it lists your active verifications. Members see badges only when signed in.
• Settings: Settings & Privacy > Account preferences > Verifications lists each verification and lets you remove it.
• Identity: the badge details show identity verification and may show the ID's issuing country; if you consented, your ID name appears in brackets after your name.
• Page: Verification controls shows “Verified” and a verification date, and the badge appears next to the organization's name.
• Failure: for Pages, LinkedIn sends an email saying the Page “does not meet the criteria”, and Verification controls shows the failed attempt with a support option.

How to Choose a Verification Method

What LinkedIn Verification Does and Does Not Do

LinkedIn says: “Our data shows that verified members naturally see 60% more profile views and 50% more engagement on average” (LinkedIn Help). That is LinkedIn's own figure, presented as a benefit of verifying; it does not publish the method, and an average comparison of members does not show that verifying causes the difference. LinkedIn's verification pages do not say that a badge changes how the feed distributes your posts. For what LinkedIn has said about feed ranking, see how LinkedIn decides who sees an executive's post.

LinkedIn also says that a Page without a badge “doesn't necessarily mean that the information on the Page is incorrect or fraudulent”, since verification is not available to all Pages.

What Happens to Your Data

Each partner handles data differently. This is what LinkedIn's help pages say as of October 2026.

The general page says the partners “have sole access” to the ID and selfie data you upload, which is deleted under the partner's privacy policy, and that LinkedIn's data centers are in the U.S. (Persona page). Your verification may be shown on jobs you post, to users of LinkedIn's enterprise products such as Recruiter, and on third-party sites. Under Verified on LinkedIn, a partner app can read your verification status only after you authorize it through OAuth (Microsoft Learn); Microsoft's page says more than 100 million members have verified their identity or workplace.

Common Problems and Fixes

What Not to Do

• Do not delete a verification casually. Consequence: LinkedIn says it “can't restore the verification once it's deleted”, and deleting identity verification also removes a displayed ID name. Correction: re-verify from Step 1 if you need it back.
• Do not change your profile name right after verifying. Consequence: you may have to re-verify. Correction: settle your display name first.
• Do not try to reuse one CLEAR or DigiLocker account on a second profile. Consequence: LinkedIn says each can be used for verification on one LinkedIn profile only. Correction: verify the one profile you actually use, and merge or close duplicates (noting the 365-day wait after a merge).
• Do not present a badge as proof of claims. Consequence: it does not verify titles or achievements, and saying so misleads readers. Correction: back claims with coverage and records; see building a founder authority footprint.
• Do not pay third parties offering “LinkedIn verification”. Consequence: LinkedIn says member verification costs nothing and documents it only through its own app and named partners. Correction: use Verify now on your own profile.
• Do not remove the DNS TXT record before LinkedIn confirms. Consequence: the domain check can fail. Correction: leave it in place until the Page shows Verified.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources and Methodology

This guide is built from LinkedIn Help Center articles and LinkedIn's developer documentation on Microsoft Learn, read on October 7, 2026. Eligibility, partners and country lists change often; the Persona country list had been updated the day before we read it. We did not complete a verification ourselves, did not request Page verification, and did not test any partner flow; the time estimate is ours. UI labels are quoted from LinkedIn's help articles, which do not all use the same wording; your app may differ.

1. official LinkedIn Help, Verifications on your LinkedIn profile. Types, badge, partners by region, privacy, display. Read October 7, 2026.
2. official LinkedIn Help, Identity verification by CLEAR and Troubleshoot identity verification by CLEAR. Read October 7, 2026.
3. official LinkedIn Help, Identity verification via Persona and Troubleshoot identity verification by Persona. Country and ID list, data sharing. Read October 7, 2026.
4. official LinkedIn Help, Identity verification using your DigiLocker credentials. Read October 7, 2026.
5. official LinkedIn Help, Display your ID name as an additional name on your profile. Read October 7, 2026.
6. official LinkedIn Help, Workplace verification with your work email. Read October 7, 2026.
7. official LinkedIn Help, LinkedIn Page verification. Eligibility, factors, timing, limits. Read October 7, 2026.
8. official LinkedIn Help, Request verification for your LinkedIn Page and Complete your Page verification process. Read October 7, 2026.
9. official LinkedIn Help, Add an email domain to your organization's LinkedIn Page to enable work email verification and Add a verification badge to your LinkedIn Page using workplace email verification. Read October 7, 2026.
10. official LinkedIn on Microsoft Learn, Verified on LinkedIn – Overview. Updated August 17, 2026. Read October 7, 2026.