The invention proposes a method for controls on persons in possession of a document comprising a machine-readable zone containing a document number and an electronic chip in which an authentication biometric is stored, comprising: at a first step (100), acquiring (120) a biometric datum, acquiring (110) the document number by reading the machine-readable zone, and recording (130), in a memory (20), the number linked with the biometric datum, and at a second step (200), acquiring (210) a biometric, from said biometric datum retrieving (220), in the memory, the number of the identity document corresponding to the person, accessing the content of the chip and retrieving the authentication biometric datum (240), and performing authentication (250) of the person by comparing the authentication biometric datum with a biometric datum of the person.