Report Check is GIA's online database. Enter a report number to see what GIA itself recorded; IGI's equivalent is Verify Your Report.
In more detail
Scan the QR code on the report or type the number. For digital reports, the online version is the definitive one. Then check the stone against the record: weight, measurements and inscription.
On a grading report
GIA reports carry a QR code that leads to the online record. IGI reports carry one too.
Related terms
- Report number: The report number is the unique number a lab gives a report. GIA registers it in its database, so anyone can look it up.
- Inscription: An inscription is text that a laser writes on the girdle of a stone, too small to see without magnification. Most often it is the report number.
- Security features: Security features are the marks on a printed report that make it hard to copy. On a GIA report they are microprinting, security screens, watermarks, a two-dimensional barcode, a hologram and sheet numbering.
- Measurements: Measurements is the report line that gives a stone's size in millimeters. A round reads minimum – maximum diameter × depth, and a fancy shape length × width × depth.