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United Kingdom

Key definition

Right to work check definition

What does Right to work check mean? A right to work check is the pre‑employment immigration compliance process by which an employer verifies and records a candidate’s lawful entitlement to undertake the role offered. United Kingdom (England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland): The concept is embedded in the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 and the Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) Order 2007, and detailed in Home Office guidance. If carried out correctly before employment starts—and repeated where permission is time‑limited—it gives a statutory excuse against civil penalties for illegal working; knowing employment remains a criminal offence. Acceptable methods are: (i) the Home Office online right to work service...

Right to work in the UK: Lists A and B explained - manual checks, Employer Checking Service and digital/eVisa changes

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Practice notes

This Practice Note provides commentary on the documents that an Employer may accept when undertaking a manual Right to work check

For details on when and why a right to work check is required, see Practice Note: Right to work checks: When and why.

The UK has shifted to digital immigration status for non-British and non-Irish nationals. From 6 April 2022, employers were no longer allowed to accept or review physical Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs), Biometric Residence Cards (BRCs) or Frontier Worker Permits as proof of right to work, even if a later expiry was printed. Instead, an online check must be completed for these individuals. Those documents enabled holders to generate a share code before they were able, during 2024, to create a UK Visas & Immigration account to access their eVisas.

Employers also gained the option to use Identity Document Validation Technology via an approved Identity Service Provider—now referred to as digital verification services—as an alternative to physically inspecting and copying current British and Irish passports.

Most BRP and BRC documents expired on 31 December 2024, although it will be possible to continue using them to...

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