OFAC sanctions screening.
OFAC publishes the names of sanctioned people and entities that banks, exporters, logistics companies, and many ordinary employers are expected not to hire or pay. A county criminal search will not show this; a dedicated OFAC and sanctions screen queries the lists directly.
Also called OFAC SDN, Patriot Act search, sanctions list screening.
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How it runs on vID
Identity verified
Search runs
Report returned
What it covers
Presence on OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and related Treasury sanctions lists- Often companion U.S. denied-party lists (BIS and similar) in the partner’s sanctions SKU
JDP sells this as a Global Security and Financial Watch List citing Patriot Act compliance, and 3rd Degree searches OFAC alongside BIS denied parties. The lists are name-heavy and identifier-light, so false positives are common — vID’s bound identity is what makes a hit reviewable.
What it covers
- Presence on OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and related Treasury sanctions lists
- Often companion U.S. denied-party lists (BIS and similar) in the partner’s sanctions SKU
What it doesn’t cover
Reveal criminal history; a sanctioned person may have no U.S. county file- Match on a face; identity verification is your defense against homonyms
- Stay current after hire; lists change, and monitoring exists
Where the data comes from.
OFAC SDN and related Treasury lists
The core U.S. sanctions publication.
Partner aggregations
Some SKUs add BIS, UN, EU, or other lists; see the global watchlists page for the wider net.
Why identity comes first.
Sanctions hits are names until proven otherwise. A bound document identity with DOB and nationality is how analysts discard false matches and keep the real one.
How the network fulfills it.
We do not maintain a private OFAC parser. We order the sanctions product that financial-facing CRAs in the network already run for banks and contractors.
This is the wrong search if…
You needed healthcare exclusions
OIG and SAM are different lists with different penalties. OFAC will not keep an excluded nurse off a Medicare claim.
You are screening volunteer coaches and nobody asked for sanctions
Then skip it; screening without a matching duty is just a longer report.
Commonly ordered with.
- Global watchlists
When the duty is broader than U.S. Treasury.
- Federal criminal search
Finance roles often want the district court as well as the list.
- Exclusion monitoring
Use sanctions monitoring for OFAC, not healthcare exclusion monitoring.
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Identity-verified, fulfilled through the partner network.
Who orders this
Frequently asked questions.
Don’t hire who you cannot pay.
Run sanctions alongside the criminal stack, with identity bound before either list gets a name.
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