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Background Information

It is a requirement that before employment commences, prospective employees provide the Company with confirmation of their eligibility to work in the UK by confirming that they are able to provide the relevant original document or documents detailed in either List A or B below. Should you be successful and commence employment, we will then contact you to make arrangements to obtain your documentation from you. Copy documentation is not acceptable. The document(s) will then be checked in your presence (either in person or via a live video link) and a copy will be taken and retained on your personnel file.

Alternatively, it may be possible for the Company to check your eligibility to work in the UK using the Home Office online right to work checking service. If you give your consent to the Company checking your right to work through this checking service, please provide the Company with your unique share code and confirm your date of birth. A copy of the response provided by the check will be taken and retained on your personnel file.

A document or documents provided from List A establish that you have an ongoing entitlement to work in the UK. If you are not subject to immigration control, or you have no restrictions on your stay in the UK, you should be able to produce a document or the specified combination of documents from List A.

If, however, you have restrictions on your entitlement to work in the UK (i.e. you have limited leave to enter or remain in the UK), you will need to produce a document or the specified combination of documents from List B. In this case, if your application is successful and you start work for us, the Company is obliged to conduct follow-up document checks as follows:

  •       If you are able to produce a current document or the specified combination of documents listed in Part 1 of List B, we will conduct a follow-up check using this document at the point of expiry of your permission to be in the UK and to do the work in question.
  •      If you produce one of the documents listed in Part 2 of List B, or you are unable to present an acceptable document because you have an outstanding application, appeal or administrative review with the Home Office in respect of your leave, the Company will contact the Home Office Employer Checking Service to obtain a Positive Verification Notice which indicates that you are allowed to stay in the UK and are allowed to do the work in question. This will be valid for six months from the date specified in that Notice. The Company will then need to make a further check upon its expiry.

Note if you are a national of a European Economic Area country or Switzerland and you arrive in the UK after 1 January 2021, you need to obtain a visa in advance under the UK’s new points-based immigration system. Without this, you do not have the right to work in the UK.

A passport showing that you, or a person named in the passport as your child, are a British citizen or a citizen of the UK and Colonies having the right of abode in the UK.

  • A passport or a national identity card showing that you, or a person named in the passport as your child, are a national of a European Economic Area country or Switzerland.
  • A registration certificate or document certifying permanent residence issued by the Home Office to a national of a European Economic Area country or Switzerland.
  • A permanent residence card issued by the Home Office to the family member of a national of a European Economic Area country or Switzerland (permanent residence cards are now issued in biometric format).
  • A current biometric immigration document (biometric residence permit) issued by the Home Office to you which indicates that you are allowed to stay indefinitely in the UK, or have no time limit on your stay in the UK.
  • A current passport endorsed to show that you are exempt from immigration control, are allowed to stay indefinitely in the UK, have the right of abode in the UK, or have no time limit on your stay in the UK.
  • A current immigration status document issued by the Home Office to you with an endorsement indicating that you are allowed to stay indefinitely in the UK or have no time limit on your stay in the UK, when produced in combination with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance Number and your name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer.
  • A birth certificate issued in the UK, when produced in combination with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance Number and your name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer.
  • An adoption certificate issued in the UK, when produced in combination with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance Number and your name issued by a Government Agency or a previous employer.
  • A birth certificate issued in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or Ireland, when produced in combination with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance Number and your name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer.
  • An adoption certificate issued in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or Ireland, when produced in combination with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance Number and your name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer.
  • A certificate of registration or naturalisation as a British Citizen, when produced in combination with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance Number and your name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer.

A current passport endorsed to show that you are allowed to stay in the UK and are allowed to do the type of work in question.

  • A current biometric immigration document (biometric residence permit) issued by the Home Office to you which indicates that you can stay in the UK and are allowed to do the work in question.
  • A current residence card (including an accession residence card or a derivative residence card) issued by the Home Office to a non-European Economic Area national who is a family member of a national of a European Economic Area country or Switzerland or who has a derivative right of residence (residence cards and derivative residence cards are now issued in biometric format).
  • A current immigration status document containing a photograph issued by the Home Office to you with an endorsement indicating that you are allowed to stay in the UK, and are allowed to do the work in question, when produced in combination with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance Number and your name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer.

A certificate of application issued by the Home Office under regulation 17(3) or 18A(2) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006, to a  family member of a national of a European Economic Area country or Switzerland stating that you are permitted to take employment which is less than six         months old – the Company must also obtain a Positive Verification Notice from the Home Office Employer Checking Service.

  • An application registration card issued by the Home Office stating that you are permitted to take the employment in question – the Company must also obtain a Positive Verification Notice from the Home Office Employer Checking Service.

References to documentation issued by the Home Office include documentation issued by UK Visas and Immigration.

In submitting your application you consent to the Company checking my right to work in the UK through the Home Office online right to work checking service.