Everything employers need to know about share code checks & right to work checks.
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Find out how to prove your right to work in the UK to an employer. Get an online share code to prove your right to work if you’re eligible or check what documents you can use instead.
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You can: check the applicant’s right to work online, if they’ve given you their share code. check the applicant’s original documents. You can also check an applicant’s right to work by using an...
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Any document you show your employer must be: valid - you can’t use a document that’s expired unless it’s a British or Irish passport. the original document - you can’t use a copy. If your document is expiring soon and you’ve applied to extend your leave, you can still prove your right to work.
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Here are the steps for verifying an employee’s right to work using the share code: Visit the Government Verification Website: Go to gov.uk/view-right-to-work. Enter the Share Code and Employee’s Date of Birth: This matches the code to the individual. Review the Verification Results: The system will display the employee’s right to work ...
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'Check a job applicant's right to work: use their share code' to establish a statutory excuse. Where the employment commenced on or after 28 January 2019, and a statutory excuse was...
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Use a job applicant's share code to check they're eligible to work in the UK if they’re from outside the UK and Ireland.
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Employers can access the Home Office online checking service and use the share code, along with an applicant’s date of birth, to check details of their Right to Work in the UK, including any restrictions, for example, on the hours an applicant can work or the type of work they can do.
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Use this service to check someone’s immigration status if you have their ‘share code’. The share code will have been emailed to you or given to you by the person whose status you’re...
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What is a right-to-work share code? A right-to-work ‘share code’ is a unique, nine-character alpha-numeric code (e.g. A12 345 67G) provided by the Home Office to prove a person’s legal right to work in the UK.The online share code system is only for use by non-British and non-Irish citizens. By providing a share code to an employer or prospective employer, they can then check:
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