Your ID must be government-issued and meet the following criteria:
- Full date of birth
- Recent photo of your face
- Valid expiration date
- Country of issuance
- Full legal name
We also accept official, stamped UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) asylum-seeker or refugee certificates that include your photo, name, and date of birth.
We do not accept handwritten IDs, photocopies, or digital images of an ID on a mobile device. Damaged or tampered with IDs will also not be accepted.
You must write your name exactly as it appears on your governmental ID card. This should include your middle name and any additional given names or surnames that appear on your ID.
The following documents are accepted:
Country or Region | Passport | Driver's License | Government Photo ID |
| Refugee | ✓ | ||
| Afghanistan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Åland Islands | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Albania | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Algeria | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| American Samoa | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Andorra | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Angola | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anguilla | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Antigua & Barbuda | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Argentina | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Armenia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Aruba | ✓ | ||
| Australia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Austria | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Azerbaijan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bahamas | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Bahrain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bangladesh | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Barbados | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Belarus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Belgium | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Belize | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Benin | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bermuda | ✓ | ||
| Bhutan | ✓ | ||
| Bolivia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Botswana | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Brazil | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| British Virgin Islands | ✓ | ||
| Brunei | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulgaria | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Burkina Faso | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Burundi | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cambodia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cameroon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Canada | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cape Verde | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cayman Islands | ✓ | ||
| Central African Republic | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Chad | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chile | ✓ | ✓ | |
| China | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Colombia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comoros | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Congo - Brazzaville | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Congo - Kinshasa | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cook Islands | ✓ | ||
| Costa Rica | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Côte d’Ivoire | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Croatia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cuba | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cyprus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Czechia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Denmark | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Djibouti | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Dominica | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dominican Republic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ecuador | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Egypt | ✓ | ✓ | |
| El Salvador | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Equatorial Guinea | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Eritrea | ✓ | ||
| Estonia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ethiopia | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Faroe Islands | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Fiji | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Finland | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| France | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gabon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gambia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Georgia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Germany | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ghana | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gibraltar | ✓ | ||
| Greece | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Greenland | ✓ | ||
| Grenada | ✓ | ||
| Guatemala | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guernsey | ✓ | ||
| Guinea | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guinea-Bissau | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guyana | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Haiti | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Honduras | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hong Kong SAR China | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hungary | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Iceland | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| India | ✓ | ||
| Indonesia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Iran | ✓ | ||
| Iraq | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Ireland | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Isle of Man | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Israel | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Italy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Jamaica | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Japan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Jersey | ✓ | ||
| Jordan | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Kazakhstan | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Kenya | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kiribati | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kosovo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kuwait | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kyrgyzstan | ✓ | ||
| Laos | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Latvia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lebanon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lesotho | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Liberia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Libya | ✓ | ||
| Liechtenstein | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lithuania | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Luxembourg | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Macau SAR China | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Macedonia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Madagascar | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Malawi | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Malaysia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Maldives | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mali | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Malta | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Marshall Islands | ✓ | ||
| Mauritania | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Mauritius | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mexico* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Micronesia | ✓ | ||
| Moldova | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monaco | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mongolia | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Montenegro | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Montserrat | ✓ | ||
| Morocco | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mozambique | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Myanmar (Burma) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Namibia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nauru | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Nepal | ✓ | ||
| Netherlands | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| New Zealand | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nicaragua | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Niger | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Nigeria | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Niue | ✓ | ||
| Norfolk Island | ✓ | ||
| North Korea | ✓ | ||
| Norway | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Oman | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Pakistan | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Palau | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Palestinian Territories | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Panama | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Papua New Guinea | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Paraguay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Peru | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Philippines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Poland | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Portugal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Puerto Rico | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Qatar | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Romania | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Russia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rwanda | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Samoa | ✓ | ||
| San Marino | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| São Tomé & Príncipe | ✓ | ||
| Saudi Arabia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Senegal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Serbia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Seychelles | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Sierra Leone | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Singapore | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sint Maarten | ✓ | ||
| Slovakia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Slovenia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Solomon Islands | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Somalia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| South Africa | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands | ✓ | ✓ | |
| South Korea | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| South Sudan | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Spain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sri Lanka | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| St. Helena | ✓ | ||
| St. Kitts & Nevis | ✓ | ||
| St. Lucia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| St. Vincent & Grenadines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sudan | ✓ | ||
| Suriname | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Swaziland | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Sweden | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Switzerland | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Syria | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Taiwan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tajikistan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tanzania | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thailand | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Timor-Leste | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Togo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tonga | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trinidad & Tobago | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tunisia | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Turkey | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Turkmenistan | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Turks & Caicos Islands | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Tuvalu | ✓ | ||
| U.S. Virgin Islands | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Uganda | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ukraine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| United Arab Emirates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| United Kingdom | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| United Nations | ✓ | ||
| United States | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Uruguay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Uzbekistan | ✓ | ||
| Vanuatu | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vatican City | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Venezuela | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vietnam | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Yemen | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Zambia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zimbabwe | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
*For certain institutions, we will accept Mexican student IDs along with a CURP and a birth certificate.