ICAI announces UDIN Archiving Strategy after one year of its generation; Check How to Search Archived UDINs on Portal here

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has announced the archiving of Unique Document Identification Number(UDIN) after one year of their generation to ease off the load on the servers. The archiving provision comes into force with immediate effect.The members can search the archived UDINs in the portal itself.

The announcements states as follows:

“It has been decided to archive UDINs after one year of their generation to ease off the load on the servers. Implementation of archiving UDINs has been scheduled in the phased manner beginning for the year 2019 in the first phase, followed for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, thereafter.”

Steps to search archived UDINs in Portal

1. Members’ login >
2. In the “List UDIN”
3. Navigate to “Document Generation Year”
4. Select UDIN Generation Year from the drop-down menu in the List 
5. Click Button (Filter & Sort)

UDIN

The Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN) is an 18-digit unique identifier generated by the system for each document that has been certified or attested by Chartered Accountants in full-time practice and recorded in the UDIN portal (https://udin.icai.org). The format of the 18-digit UDIN is as follows:

The 18- digits UDIN (YY MMMMMM AANNNAANNN) will be like;

Eg: 19304576AKTSBN1359

1. First 2 Digits are YY – Last 2 digits of the Current Year (19 in this case)
2. Next 6 Digits are MMMMMM — ICAl’s Membership No. (304576 in this case)
3. Next 10 Digits are AANNNAANNN —Alpha-numeric generated randomly by the system (AKTSBNI 359).

If you have any queries, please write to the concerned people at udin@icai.in.

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