THE Registrar General's Department (RGD) is working to increase the number of clients accessing its online services from 40 per cent to 60 per cent.

Another feature offered online is the RGD's verification service, which was officially launched in May.

It allows stakeholders, which are mostly government entities, to log on to the RGD portal and verify the information on a certificate that would be presented to them.

McFarlane said this reduces the usual time it would take for persons to write to the RGD to request verification.

They literally just enter their certificate information, the application number, it hits our system and they get back a verification message then and there.