Kwame Boateng

Confirm your full legal name and date of birth as they appear on your passport.

Binds the live session to the identity credential on file.

Have you ever been known by another name? If so, when and why did it change?

Surfaces prior identities that other checks would otherwise miss.

Talk me through this in your own words.

An open prompt before any specific probing; establishes the subject's own account.

Is there anything about this that could look worse on paper than it was in practice?

Invites the subject to pre-empt a discrepancy rather than be confronted with one.