APRIL 2025
Right to Work Update
The Home Office have recently updated the employer’s guide to right to work checks guidance, key points can be found below:
UK/Irish out of date passports and Birth Certificates
A clipped Irish/British passport is a ‘cancelled document’ and therefore no longer acceptable proof of a Right to Work. This can be identified by the corners of certain pages in the passport being cut/removed.
Further clarity has been added to Birth certificates as follows; a birth certificate issued in the UK, whether short or long, is acceptable when it is accompanied by an official document showing the name and national insurance number issued by a government agency or a previous employer.
Reference: Right to Work: Annex A ‘List of Acceptable Documents’
Entry clearance vignette
With a key change affecting individuals entering the UK on a 90-day entry clearance vignette. Applicants now need to create a UKVI account within ten days of arriving in the UK, or before their vignette expires (whichever is later) to access their eVisa to prove they have a continuing right to work in the UK.