Good morning and congratulations on the launch! All seems good so far and we look forward to testing some filings in live.
One significant concern we have is that we are still seeing lots of cases where:
- a PSC is also a Director or LLP member in the same company
- their identity verification deadline should therefore align (ie by reference to the confirmation statement due date)
- …but they do not
For example:
- X is a director and PSC or a company whose CS due date is 03/04/2026
- X’s director ID verification date is, correctly, showing as 03/04/2026
- But X’s PSC ID verification date is showing by reference to their birth month.
It appears that CH has not been able to identify that the director and PSC are the same person, therefore the PSC filing window dates are, as we understand the regulations, incorrect. We are getting the same information in the API data.
We have seen cases where the dates have aligned correctly, but lots where it has not.
Please advise urgently if this is something that will be corrected. If not what should we be advising customers to use as the PSC filing window?
Should they use the (incorrect) dates as per the CH API?
Or should they try work out their own filing windows by reference to the what the regulations say?