---
title: "Screen a name against the sanctions corpus"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/entity/screen"
tags: ["Sugra Entity"]
---

# Screen a name against the sanctions corpus

`POST /api/v1/entity/screen`

Screen a person or organization name against the OFAC SDN corpus and return a screening signal (`clear`, `review`, or `hit`) with matched records. Fail-CLOSED on staleness: if the underlying list is stale, a `hit` or `clear` result is downgraded to `review` and `meta.stale_screening` is set to `true`.

## Request body

- EntityScreenRequest
  - `name` string, required
  - `country` string, nullable
  - `dob` string, nullable
  - `nationality` string, nullable
  - `as_of` string, nullable
  - `threshold_hit` number
  - `threshold_review` number

## Response `200`

Screening result with status and matches, plus list-freshness and staleness metadata in the envelope `meta`.

- unknown

## Other responses

- `401` — Missing or invalid `x-api-key` header.
- `422` — Validation Error
- `429` — Daily rate limit exceeded. Check `X-RateLimit-Reset` for the next window.
- `503` — Upstream source is temporarily unavailable. Retry after a short delay.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/sugra/apis/sugra-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/sugra/apis/sugra-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-production.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/sugra/sugra-api/revisions/2f944094d937/schema)