Claim your Leja RIN and activate Resident

Your RIN may already exist with payment history you haven’t seen. Claim it with your NIN and activate your Resident account at resident.leja.com.

Your Resident Identity Number (RIN) is the anchor of your economic identity on Leja. It is a unique, permanent identifier in the format RIN-NG-YYYY-XXXXXXXXXXX — issued once per person, never reassigned, and portable across every state in Nigeria. Claiming your RIN is the first step to seeing your verified payment history, sharing your profile with landlords, and building an identity that compounds over time.

Before you start: two scenarios

How you claim your RIN depends on whether your landlord already uses Leja Professional.

Scenario A — Your landlord uses Leja Professional

If your landlord or agent has been issuing receipts and recording payments through Leja Professional, your RIN may already exist. It was issued silently when they added you as a tenant, and payment events have been accumulating in the background. You have history you have not seen yet. Claiming your RIN reveals it.

Scenario B — You are new to Leja

If no landlord has added you to Leja Professional, your RIN does not exist yet. You will create it when you sign up. Start with a clean record — and start accumulating from today.

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Scenario A: claim a silently-issued RIN

1. Go to resident.leja.com

   Open resident.leja.com in your browser. Select Sign up.

2. Enter your NIN

   Your National Identification Number (NIN) is the first field. Enter it exactly as it appears on your NIN slip or NIMC card. No other field appears until you submit your NIN.

3. NIN match found — your RIN is located

   If your landlord registered you with your NIN, Leja finds your existing RIN immediately and links your new account to it. If they registered you with only your phone number, enter your phone number when prompted — Leja will locate the record and ask you to confirm.

4. Set your account credentials

   Choose a password and complete your profile. Your account is now active.

5. See your history

   Your Track 1 dashboard loads with any payment events that have been recorded on your behalf. Depending on how long your landlord has used Leja Professional, you may see months or years of payment history already waiting.

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Scenario B: create a new RIN

1. Go to resident.leja.com

   Open resident.leja.com in your browser. Select Sign up.

2. Enter your NIN

   Your NIN is checked against all existing Leja records. If no match is found, Leja creates a new RIN at the NIN_REGISTERED verification tier and submits your NIN to NIMC for background verification.

3. Complete your profile

   Add your name, phone number, and any other required fields. Your RIN is issued immediately — you do not need to wait for NIMC verification to access your account.

4. Watch for your NIN_VERIFIED upgrade

   NIMC verification typically completes within 24 hours. When it does, your account upgrades automatically to NIN_VERIFIED tier, unlocking full profile sharing and consent management.

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Why NIN is required

Leja uses your NIN as the deduplication key — the mechanism that guarantees one RIN per person. When you register, Leja checks your NIN against every existing record before creating anything new. If a match exists, your account connects to that record. If not, a new RIN is issued.

This means you cannot create two separate Leja identities, even if you sign up multiple times or use different phone numbers. Your identity on Leja is permanently singular.

Leja does not store your NIN in plain text. It is secured and never displayed to any other party on the platform.

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Verification tiers explained

Your RIN has a verification tier that determines what you can see, what others can see, and which features you can use. You start at NIN_REGISTERED when you sign up, and your tier increases as you verify more of your identity.

PROVISIONAL — before you claim

This tier is assigned when a landlord creates your record without your NIN. You cannot access your Resident account at this tier. Claiming your RIN by signing up with your NIN moves you immediately to NIN_REGISTERED.

NIN_REGISTERED — after signup

Your NIN has been collected and submitted to NIMC for verification, but the check is still pending. You can access your basic Resident dashboard and view your payment history in read-only mode. Profile sharing with third parties is not yet enabled.

NIN_VERIFIED — after NIMC confirmation (usually < 24 hours)

NIMC has confirmed that your NIN exists and matches your name and date of birth. This is the tier most residents use for day-to-day Resident features. Full Track 1 dashboard, consent management, and standard profile sharing are all available. Your Leja Score can reach Gold tier.

DOCUMENT_VERIFIED — after document upload

You have uploaded your NIN card and completed a liveness verification. This tier unlocks institutional sharing — for banks or insurers that need deeper signals — and allows your Leja Score to reach Platinum tier. To upgrade, go to Settings → Verification → Upload document.

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Even if you have only just signed up, your payment history may already be building through your landlord’s Leja Professional activity. Once you claim your RIN, you are never starting from zero.