Use cases for Verified ID shift depending on how your organization interacts with external users. Examples include:

Onboarding seasonal or contingent employees with certification requirements

Onboarding employees often requires the verification that training, certification, or licensing requirements are met, and this process can be time sensitive if you’re dealing with seasonal or contingent workers.

• The school or training organization that has the authority to issue verifiable credentials, such as a university or government department, issues the credential.
• The worker who owns the credential stores it in their digital wallet.
• The employer, or verifier, requests proof of the employee’s education credential, and the employee presents their digital credential.

Enable citizens to securely access government services 

• A government agency, as the Issuer, issues an official government ID, e.g. passports and driver’s license. The issuing agency certifies the document, attesting to its authenticity.
• The citizen, as the Credential Holder, can present it at a later time to a requesting agency.
• Another government agency, as the Verifier, providing services to the citizen, can now trust that the presented credential is authentic.

Use Verified Credentials to enable first-time log in for new employee without a password

In this use case, the issuer and verifier are the same entity – the company hiring the employee. The company is providing an identity that allows access to their network, data, and applications.

• Once an account and credential is created for the new employee, an invitation is sent to their personal email address.
• The email invitation provides a link to a web site that will issue a Verifiable Credential to the user if they can be located in their new employer’s directory.
• The new employee is instructed to visit a site and present the new Verified Credential, which is validated against the company’s identity store and allows them to login for the first time.