# Verify a Verifiable Credential
Once you have issued your credential and have a JWT as part of the credential proof, you can use the `/credential/verify` API to check that the JWT has not been tampered.
## Step 1: Obtain Credential to Verify
To verify a Credential, you can either pass the full Credential body or the JWT proof. These can be either obtained from a [Credential that has been issued](https://docs.cheqd.io/product/studio/credentials/issue-credential) or from a Verifiable Presentation presented to the user.
## Step 2: Configure Verification Parameters
The user is able to set verification parameters to filter whether they want to verify certain aspects of a Credential, including:
verifyStatus
* true (indicates that the user wants to verify the Credential Status, requiring a credentialStatus property to be present in the Credential)
* false (Default. Indicates that the user does not want to verify the Credential Status.
fetchRemoteContexts
When dealing with JSON-LD type Verifiable Credentials you also MUST provide the proper contexts within a Credential body. Set this to `true` ONLY if you want the `@context` URLs to be fetched in case they are a custom context.
* true
* false (default)
## Step 3: Pass the Credential to the API
Simply paste the JWT or the full credential body into the request field of the `/credential/verify` API, and the API will give you a response including the following verification policies:
1. Whether the Credential has been tampered
2. Whether the Credential has a valid issuance date
3. Whether the Credential has expired
4. Whether the Credential Status is valid
## Verify a Verifiable Credential.
> This endpoint verifies a Verifiable Credential passed to it. As input, it can take the VC-JWT as a string or the entire credential itself.
```json
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```
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