It is the responsibility of every employers of establishments covered under the Employees Provident Fund Act to ensure updation of KYC details by the employees covered under the Employees Provident Fund Act.

Every employee covered under the Employees Provident Fund Act has to update their personal KYC details from their respective Provident Fund Accounts i.e the UAN Member Account.

To avail the Transfer claim or Advance Withdrawal Claim or Permanent Withdrawal Claim facilities, updating KYC is a mandatory requirement.

Once the KYC details are submitted by the employees, the employer has to verify and approve the KYC details using the Digital Signature registered on the Employees Provident Fund Establishment Portal.

Following are the steps to submit & update employees KYC details in Employees Provident Fund Account:

1. Login to establishment unifiedportal-emp.epfindia.gov.in

2. Select “Approvals” under Member tab on the left side of the page

3. Select the option “DSC KYC” on the right side of the page

4. Attach Digital Signature to the system

5. Select option DSC token and proceed

6. Select the name of the DSC holder appearing in the pop up box and sign

7. Approve all the requests following the above steps.

8. Again Select Members Tab – KYC pending for DS

9. If the records appear – Follow above steps 2-8 and approve the pending requests

10. Again select Members Tab – KYC Seeded by Members

11. If the records appear – Follow above steps 2-8 and approve the pending requests

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161 Comments

    1. CS Rohit Kudale says:

      Make sure you have imported the dsc file. Refer help kit also.

      After starting the DSC service utility close the browser and try again.

  1. Rabi says:

    My employer DSC got expired and they have applied for approval of DSC token to EPFO. But it is taking time to register the device or get approval of DSC from EPFO. How much time usually it takes to register DSC and get it approved from EPFO ?

  2. Pranaya says:

    When I tried to update my bank details it is showing “Pending with Employer for digital signing”.
    But now I am unemployed and dont have any employer. How to update the bank details then. Can you please help.

  3. shraddha says:

    i am getting status of KYC as “Pending with employer for digital signature”

    means this is pending from whom side pf office or employer

      1. ABHINAV ANAND says:

        Sir, Currently I work in a Govt PSU and enrolled in NPS . My earlier employer, around 5 years back was a private company. I updated my Bank KYC 2 days back and the current status is “PENDING WITH EMPLOYER FOR DIGITAL SIGNING”. Who will be approving it, as EPF and NPS are diiferent ? Do they share data among them? Please help Sir

          1. ABHINAV ANAND says:

            Sir. in my employment history the employer is still the older one. DATE OF EXIT is also mentioned. The present employer is a PSU and it is not displayed. How to resolve this ? Do I have to finally visit the EPF office ?

  4. Sainath says:

    I have left my job, and jobless right now if it is with my employer can I request them or will it get updated automatically without requesting them?

  5. Deepak says:

    Hi I’m getting a message saying ” Pending with Employer for digital signing”.
    My questions has this request gone to my current employer
    as I worked in 3 other organizations before…if the request goes to other previous organizations then it will be difficult for me

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