# Understand the Certification Status **Verifying a company's certification is crucial, especially for supply chains and industries that prioritize compliance and risk management.** To support this need, **IAF CertSearch** provides powerful search capabilities that allow you to validate the **status of a company's certificate**, ensuring transparency and trust in your business relationships.
StatusDescription
Active Currently valid and compliant.
SuspendedTemporarily inactive, possibly under review.
WithdrawnPermanently revoked by the Certification Body.
ExpiredNo longer valid due to reaching its end date.
Each status carries important implications for compliance, supplier trust, risk assessment, and operational decision-making. By showing all statuses, we ensure that you have access to **comprehensive, accurate, and timely data**, not just for what’s active today, but also for understanding a certificate’s history and trustworthiness over time. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://support.iafcertsearch.org/verifiers/getting-started/certificate-verification-guide/understand-the-certification-status.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.