Your company’s confirmation-statement cycle can require identity verification before November 2026, and Companies House will not accept the statement until every director has verified. Check the actual filing deadline and each person’s roles now, rather than treating the transition’s November anniversary as permission to wait. (Companies House)
This guidance was checked on 11 September 2026. The compulsory regime began on 18 November 2025, with a 12-month transition for existing appointments. That is a framework for different deadlines, not a single appointment in every director’s diary. (Companies House)
Write down the statement date and the filing deadline
The public register distinguishes the confirmation statement’s date from the deadline for delivering it. Normally you have 14 days after the review period ends to file. Use the register link in the official filing guidance, then read both dates and the filing history.
For an existing director, the company supplies the verification statement alongside its next confirmation statement during the transition. Missing that filing does not remove the requirement: it carries forward to the next statement actually delivered. Note that two different things are in play. The duty to supply the verification statement carries forward, but the transition protection that lets an unverified director keep acting does not: that runs out on the original due date. The detailed rule is regulation 4 of SI 2025/1118.
Here are two illustrative companies with ordinary annual cycles, unchanged dates and directors appointed before the regime began. They are examples, not reports about named businesses.
| Register information | What the owner should do |
|---|---|
| Company A: statement date 17 September 2026, filing deadline 1 October 2026 | Collect both directors’ codes now. Complete verification before preparing the statement and submit by 1 October. |
| Company B: next filing deadline 5 January 2027, following the same cycle as 5 January 2026 | Inspect the January 2026 filing immediately. The annual cycle already passed through the transition; January 2027 is not a fresh grace period. |
Company A’s filing deadline is 48 days before 18 November. Leaving the checks until November would mean missing the October filing, even though the national transition was still running when it fell due.
Company B needs a different conversation. If its previous statement was due on 5 January 2026 and remained unfiled, unverified directors continuing to act would have passed the relevant transition protection in January. Describing 19 November 2026 as the first problem would understate the delay. If records show a changed cycle or a different appointment history, establish those facts before calculating the deadline. (Regulation 4(6))
One owner can have two separate submissions
An owner who is both director and person with significant control, or PSC, normally completes the identity check once. The resulting Companies House personal code belongs to the individual, not the company. (Companies House)
The code must then be connected to both roles. The director entry goes through the confirmation statement. For an existing PSC who is also a director of that company, the separate PSC submission falls in the 14-day period starting the day after the confirmation-statement date. Filing early does not move that PSC window. (Companies House deadline guidance)
For Company A’s owner-director who is also its PSC, that gives an illustrative PSC window of 18 September to 1 October 2026. Completing the director filing alone leaves the PSC task outstanding.
An existing PSC who is not a director generally has the first 14 days of their birth month as their window. A newly registered PSC has a different rule. Read the dates for that person on the register rather than copying another owner’s diary entry. (Companies House)
The filing block has specific consequences
An unverified director cannot simply be added to a new company or a new directorship through the normal registration process. That does not mean a company with a verification problem is universally barred from appointing a different, verified person. (Companies House)
Once the applicable transition protection ends, acting as an unverified director is an offence. The company must also prevent that conduct; the company and officers in default can commit an offence. However, the legislation expressly preserves the validity of the individual’s acts as director. A filing problem is serious without claiming that every contract becomes void. (Companies Act 2006, section 167M)
Failure to file the confirmation statement can bring enforcement and eventual strike-off. It is not an automatic dissolution on the next morning. Treat it separately from accounts and tax deadlines when you plan the company’s payments and calendar. (Companies House)
Just under half of appointments were verified by June
The latest quarterly release available at our check contains this revised series:
| Reporting date | Verified appointments | Share verified |
|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2025 | 911,758 | 6.16% |
| 31 March 2026 | 4,158,941 | 28.12% |
| 30 June 2026 | 7,364,599 | 49.68% |
Source: Companies House, July 2026 release, Table 1.
July’s release corrected earlier calculations to include dormant-company appointments. Mixing its June figure with unrevised earlier releases produces a misleading trend. The remaining 50.32% were appointments not recorded as verified at June’s snapshot, not necessarily overdue people. One individual can hold several appointments, and many deadlines still lie ahead. The data is unaudited management information, not a September compliance count.
Start the check today and assign each submission
The direct GOV.UK One Login route is free; an authorised agent may charge. The check itself is usually quick, but allow time for resolving document problems and for submitting every role, not just your own. (Verification options)
Use five minutes today to open the register, list every director and PSC, record both company dates and allocate responsibility for each code submission. Keep evidence of acceptance. If a PSC needs extra time, request the available 14-day extension before their deadline. (PSC service)
Put this beside your other owner responsibilities, including checking employers’ liability cover. The useful finish is a completed register of people, dates and accepted submissions, rather than a reminder labelled simply “November”.
