# British Virgin Islands

Company data from the British Virgin Islands business register, through the Topograph API.

## Overview

Topograph reads BVI FSC (British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission) and returns the company profile of British Virgin Islands companies through one API.

> **Warning**
> **Current coverage limitation**
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> Document-based verification is temporarily unavailable for the British Virgin Islands. Only the FSC public search is supported today: in prefill mode the `company` datapoint returns the current legal name and company number. Company status and legal form are no longer published in the public search (the FSC moved them to its profile report, which is currently unavailable), and directors, shareholders, registered address and capital are not available either. Full verification depends on access to FSC profile documents.
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> Pass `"mode": "prefill"` on every request. `/v2/company` uses `verification` when you omit `mode`, and with no authoritative lane available the datapoint comes back failed with the error code `authoritative_source_unavailable`. See [Modes](https://docs.topograph.co/essentials/modes).

## Coverage

What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.

Requests run in prefill mode (fast); there is no verification path here yet.

| Datapoint | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | No |
| Articles of association | No |
| Financials | No |
| UBO extract | No |

### Speed

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 3 s in prefill mode. These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.

## Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

- **[BVI FSC (British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission)](https://publicsearch.bvifsc.vg)**: BVI Financial Services Commission – official register of BVI companies and partnerships
- **[GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)](https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy/download-the-golden-copy)** (secondary): Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

## Identifiers

Request a company by its Company Number as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `VG`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full British Virgin Islands reference

The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 2 |
| Search patterns | 3 |
| Quirks | 6 |
| Legal forms | 5 |
| Company statuses | 10 |
| Example responses | 3 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fvg
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fvg

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/vg.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

## British Virgin Islands business register guide

[British Virgin Islands business register guide](https://www.topograph.co/guides/business-registers-in-british-virgin-islands): how the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/vg