🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands

Overview

AiPrise verifies British Virgin Islands companies against the Registrar of Companies (BVI). A business verification returns the company profile.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name. Status, registration date and registered address when listed.
Directors and officers	No
Shareholders	No
Ultimate beneficial owners	No

Document	Returned
Register extract	No
Articles of association	No
Financial statements	No

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification (company data)	15 seconds	30 seconds

These are typical times from production, not a service-level commitment: set timeouts well above them, or use callbacks.

Company types

Companies in the BVI register are covered. The legal form is rarely returned.

Sources

Register	What it gives
Registrar of Companies (BVI)	Company profile

Identifiers

Send the legal name in name, or the company number in business_entity_id, with country_code set to VG.

Identifier	Format	Example
Company number	Digits, usually 7	`1234567`

Statuses and legal forms

Every result carries the register's own status in registration_info.status and an AiPrise status in registration_info.normalised_status. The normalised status is one of Active, Suspended, Dormant, Dissolved / Struck Off, In Liquidation / Insolvency or Unknown.

Register status	Normalised status
Active	Active
(no status)	Unknown

The legal form is rarely returned.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
Status often missing	About 2 in 3 results have no register status and show `Unknown`.
Thin profiles	The registration date comes back for about 1 in 5 companies and the registered address for about 2 in 5.
No officers or owners	Directors, shareholders and beneficial owners are not returned. Collect them in your onboarding flow.

Limits

Directors, shareholders and beneficial owners are not available.
The legal form is rarely returned.