Right to Work Check Guidance - Update

21 February 2025

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The Employer's guide to right to work checks provides guidance to employers on how to conduct a right to work check. It outlines the measures an employer must take to prevent liability for a civil penalty.

This guidance has been updated and is applicable to right to work checks carried out on or after 12 February 2025.

The update includes the following:

  • Streamlining the content within the section titled Previous versions of this guidance.
  • Decommissioning of biometric cards, including Biometric Residence Permits/Card (BRP/BRC) confirming that individuals who currently use a physical immigration document, such as a BRP/BRC, or legacy paper document, should create a UKVI account to access their eVisa to prove their right to work in the UK.
  • Amendment to Annex A: Lists of acceptable documents for manual right to work checks.
    - A clipped British or Irish passport is a cancelled document and therefore not acceptable proof of right to work.
    - Clarification that a short or long birth certificate is considered acceptable when presented with official evidence of name and national insurance number issued by a government agency or a previous employer.
  • Amendment to Annex D: Employment of Ukrainian nationals.
    - Confirms the opening of the Ukraine Permission Extension scheme on 4 February 2025.
  • The section referring to COVID-19 temporary adjusted checks has been removed.