Australian Government
A USI - Unique Student Identifier is your individual education identifier for life. It also creates an online record of your training attainments in Australia.
If you are undertaking either nationally recognised training, or a higher education qualification, you need a USI in order to receive commonwealth financial assistance, as well as to obtain your qualification or statement of attainment.
A USI is for life!
You only have to create it once.
Upcoming system maintenance
Digital Identity will be unavailable 11:00pm to 7:00am Friday 4 to Saturday 5 December 2020 to allow for ATO upgrades.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
New look website coming soon
Our new look website is set to launch soon! We’ve been busy upgrading our website and look forward to launching it in early December. Everything you need to know about the USI will be easier to find, read and understand. Sign up for USI updates to stay informed about the launch and other news from the Office of the Student Identifiers Registrar.
Providing your USI
Once higher education students have created a USI, they need to provide it to their university at enrolment. Higher education students are asked not to use the USI email option in the Student Portal, as each university has a different process to supply a USI.
Compliance
Our Compliance and Enforcement Strategy is now available. The Strategy explains how we protect the integrity of the USI and how we respond and investigate non-compliance.
USI Web services is now available
Higher Education Providers can now access the USI Registry System by integrating USI web services with Student Management Systems.
Education or training providers must submit a System Access Request Form before they are given access to USI web services. System developers can find out more about how to implement USI web services from our system developers support section.
More choice about how to prove who you are online
We are conducting a beta of a new trusted government service to prove who you are online: it’s called a Digital Identity. You can use a Digital Identity to create a USI or login to an existing USI account. Creating a Digital Identity is like doing a 100-point identification check.
Find out more about how creating and using a Digital Identity is a personal choice and completely voluntary.
Identity theft is real and could happen to you!
Protect yourself against identity theft by staying informed. Find out the signs a scammer may be trying to obtain your personal information, how you can protect your identity and keep your personal details safe.
Enhanced student options when permitting third parties to view transcripts
If you have a USI, you can now give permission to third parties such as a licensing bodies, employment agencies or potential employers to view your authenticated USI transcript. You control whether or not to give this access, to whom and for how long. You can also choose which of your achievements are displayed.
Penalty provisions to manage non-compliance
These provisions include infringement notices and the ability for the Student Identifiers Registrar to commence civil proceedings for certain specified offences. The Registrar is drafting a framework to manage compliance with the new provisions. Further information on the Registrar’s compliance regime will soon be published on this website.
A USI is for life. It will link your training records into an online transcript
