Use the Employer Checking Service

Use this service to ask the Home Office to check an employee鈥檚 or potential employee鈥檚 immigration status if they cannot show their documents or online immigration status.

This could be, for example, because:

  • they have an outstanding appeal, review or application with the Home Office
  • they arrived in the UK before 1988 and do not have documents to prove their immigration status or right to work
  • they鈥檙e having technical issues getting a share code to prove their right to work
  • you鈥檙e unable to use a digital service to check their right to work due to a technical issue

You must also ask the Home Office to check their status if they have:

  • a non-digital Certificate of Application that says you need to ask the Home Office to check their right to work
  • an Application Registration Card

You only need to use this service if you cannot check the applicant鈥檚 right to work online using their share code or check the applicant鈥檚 original documents.

You can be fined up to 拢60,000 for employing illegal workers.

Before you start

You can read the guidance on how to carry out right to work checks, including how to keep a record of the checks you make.

You鈥檒l need to provide the following information to request a check.

Your employee鈥檚 or potential employee鈥檚:

  • full name
  • date of birth
  • nationality
  • job title
  • hours worked per week
  • home address in the UK

You need to see their original Application Registration Card or Certificate of Application, if this is what you鈥檙e checking.

You鈥檒l also need to provide your:

  • business name
  • business type
  • business contact information

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