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Short answer
Go to UIDAI's myAadhaar site, choose Verify Aadhaar Number, enter the 12-digit number and the captcha. If the number is genuine, it shows the holder's age band, gender, state and the last 3 digits of the registered mobile1. Check those match the person and her phone. Or scan the card's secure QR code with UIDAI's "Aadhaar QR Scanner" app1. It's free and takes two minutes.
Why check at all?
Because it's free, quick, and the only official way to know an Aadhaar number exists. UIDAI recommends verifying Aadhaar "at the time of hiring an employee, domestic worker, driver or renting out to a tenant"1.
If your hiring process is "my neighbour's cook's cousin", you don't have a process. You have a family tree. A two-minute check is the least you can add.
Ask first, and do it together
Asking someone for their Aadhaar can feel like an accusation. It doesn't have to. Say why: "We check everyone who works in the house, and we'd do the same for a driver or a tenant." Offer to do it together on her phone. And offer the same in return: show her your ID, or let her verify you.
Our take: trust that runs one way isn't trust. A helper walking into a stranger's home has as much reason to check as you do.
Method 1: the online number check
- Open UIDAI's myAadhaar site and choose Verify Aadhaar Number.
- Enter the 12-digit Aadhaar number and the captcha.
- If the number exists, you'll see the age band, gender, state and last 3 digits of the mobile number linked to it1.
- Match them: does the age band fit? The state? Do the last 3 digits match the phone she uses?
What it doesn't show: her name, photo or address. A match tells you the number is genuine and plausibly hers. It doesn't prove the card in front of you is.
Method 2: scan the QR code
Every Aadhaar letter and e-Aadhaar has a secure QR code, digitally signed by UIDAI, which UIDAI describes as "secure and tamper-proof"1. Scan it with UIDAI's Aadhaar QR Scanner app1 and compare what it shows with the card and the person. A photocopy with an edited name won't match its own QR.
What an Aadhaar check tells you, and what it doesn't
For anyone who'll live in, care for a child or parent alone, or drive your car, add police verification through your city police. The official route, city by city →
What to do with the copy
- Never keep her original. It's hers, and holding a worker's documents is the oldest abuse in this work.
- If you keep a copy, use a masked Aadhaar, which shows only the last 4 digits2.
- Keep it with the work agreement, not on a building WhatsApp group.
On Sevetu: the check is built in
Sevetu's Verify helper runs an Aadhaar-based identity check with the helper's consent, on your phone or by a link sent to hers. Households see a Verified badge, not her Aadhaar number, and Sevetu stores the match result only. The app shows the price before you pay3. It's an identity check, not a police or criminal record check3.
How Sevetu's verification works →
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Questions people ask
On UIDAI's myAadhaar site, choose Verify Aadhaar Number and enter the number. If it's genuine, you'll see the age band, gender, state and last 3 digits of the mobile number. You can also scan the card's QR code with UIDAI's Aadhaar QR Scanner app.
Yes. UIDAI's online number check and the QR scanner app are free.
The online number check doesn't. It shows the age band, gender, state and last 3 mobile digits. The QR code carries signed details to match against the card.
No. It confirms a number is genuine. For anyone living in, caring for a child or parent, or driving your car, add police verification, a reference call and a paid trial.
If you keep one, keep a masked Aadhaar showing only the last 4 digits, and never keep her original.
Sources
- UIDAI, press release Multiple ways to establish veracity of Aadhaar, PIB, 4 May 2022, read 12 November 2026: online, "Age Band, Gender, State and last 3 digits of Mobile of an Aadhaar Holder can be verified" at myaadhaar.uidai.gov.in/verifyAadhaar "by feeding the Aadhaar number"; the Aadhaar "has a Secure QR code printed on it", "digitally signed by UIDAI", "secure and tamper-proof", readable by the "Aadhaar QR scanner" app; UIDAI "recommends verifying 'Aadhaar' as an additional check" including "at the time of hiring an employee, domestic worker, driver or renting out to a tenant". uidai.gov.in (PDF)
- UIDAI, Aadhaar online services FAQ, read 12 November 2026: "Masked Aadhaar implies replacing of first 8 digits of Aadhaar number with 'xxxx-xxxx' while only last 4 digits of the Aadhaar Number are visible." uidai.gov.in
- Sevetu, Verification and Pricing, read 10 November 2026: an identity check against Aadhaar or another government ID; the badge does not screen criminal records. sevetu.com/verification/
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Written by the Sevetu teamSevetu is a hiring marketplace for household work in India, operated by Fiel Private Limited. These guides come from the questions families and workers ask us. Nothing here is sponsored, and where a number has no defensible source we say so instead of inventing one. About Sevetu
