Carteira digital de trânsito (CNH)
Verify Brazilian identity using their digital CNH from the Carteira Digital de Trânsito app.
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The scheme at a glance
Overview
What is Carteira digital de trânsito (CNH)?
The Carteira Digital de Trânsito (CDT) is Brazil’s official traffic documents app, launched on 27 August 2018 and developed by the national traffic secretariat Senatran together with Serpro. It holds the digital Carteira Nacional de Habilitação (CNH), the national driving licence, which has the same legal value as the printed version and is widely accepted as proof of identity. In December 2025 the app was renamed CNH do Brasil.
- Issuing authority
- Senatran (national traffic secretariat) with Serpro; the CNH itself is issued by state DETRANs
- Country
- Brazil
- Document
- Digital Carteira Nacional de Habilitação (CNH), with the same legal value as the printed licence
- Data returned
- Name, date and place of birth, CPF, filiation (parents’ names), CNH registration number, and vehicle categories
- Launch
- 27 August 2018 (renamed CNH do Brasil in December 2025)
- Official status
- Officially recognised digital identity and driving document
Three steps
How it works
How verification works
The check runs in your flow. The result arrives where your team works.
Collect or pass in licence data
Capture the CNH details from the digital licence, or pass known data in from your onboarding form.
Data and document match
The licence details are validated as an official document, with an optional selfie compared to the licence photo.
Signals returned to your flow
A verified result and audit record flow into your Zenoo case.
Open the customer's case
What your team sees
The Carteira digital de trânsito (CNH) result, beside everything else.
Verification sits with screening and review on one case, so nobody checks a second tool to see the whole customer.
What you can build
- Bank account opening
- Lending and credit onboarding
- Vehicle rental and mobility onboarding
- Age and identity verification
- Government service access
About Carteira digital de trânsito (CNH)
FAQs
Carteira digital de trânsito (CNH) questions.
How do I verify a digital CNH?
You validate the digital Carteira Nacional de Habilitação held in the Carteira Digital de Trânsito app as an official document and confirm the details, such as name, CPF, and CNH registration number, optionally matching a selfie to the licence photo.
What is the Carteira Digital de Trânsito?
It is Brazil’s official traffic documents app, launched in 2018 by Senatran with Serpro. It holds the digital CNH and the vehicle document CRLV, both with the same legal value as their printed versions. The app was renamed CNH do Brasil in December 2025.
Is the digital CNH accepted as identification?
Yes. The digital CNH has the same legal value as the printed driving licence and is widely accepted as a legal identification document across Brazil.
Hands it to your team
Verification is the first step. Compliance Hub handles the rest.
Once a customer is verified, screening and review happen in Compliance Hub. A possible PEP match lands in your team inbox with the evidence and the full history beside it. Zenoo suggests, your team decides.
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