Right to Work Check Rules
The Right to Work Check Rules carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 28 to 90 day, read 7 November 2026.
6 of the 13 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 7 November 2026.
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Employer's guide to right to work checks, 26 June 2025 | 90day | 2026-11-07 |
| Employer's guide to right to work checks (PDF, 26 June 2025) | 90day | 2026-11-07 |
| Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 section 15 | 28day | 2026-11-07 |
| Code of practice on preventing illegal working, 13 February 2024 | 28day | 2026-11-07 |
| Draft employer's guide to right to work checks, 16 July 2026 | 6month | 2026-11-07 |
| Employers' right to work checklist | 2year | 2026-11-07 |
The sentence each figure was read from (6)
- Employer's guide to right to work checks, 26 June 2025, read 2026-11-07:
Once in receipt of the share code (valid for 90 days), you can use the online service to carry out the right to work check as set out in this guidance.
- Employer's guide to right to work checks (PDF, 26 June 2025), read 2026-11-07:
Once in receipt of the share code (valid for 90 days), you can use the
- Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 section 15, read 2026-11-07:
specify a date, at least 28 days after the date specified in the notice as the date on which it is given, before which the penalty must be paid,
- Code of practice on preventing illegal working, 13 February 2024, read 2026-11-07:
The statutory excuse will continue from the expiry date of an existing employee’s leave for a further period of up to 28 days to enable the employer to obtain a Positive Verification Notice from the ECS or carry out a Home Office online check.
- Draft employer's guide to right to work checks, 16 July 2026, read 2026-11-07:
In the above circumstances, an employer must request verification of right to work from the ECS and have been issued with a Positive Verification Notice (PVN) confirming that the named individual is allowed to carry out the type of work in question; enabling them to hire or extend the individual’s contract for 6 months from the date specified in the PVN.
- Employers' right to work checklist, read 2026-11-07:
all other documents: the document in full, both sides of an immigration status document and an Application Registration Card All copies of documents taken should be kept securely for the duration of the worker’s employment and for 2 years afterwards.
Read in full, publishes no figure
7 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- GOV.UK checking a job applicant's right to work, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK prove your right to work: get a share code online, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK prove your right to work to an employer (overview), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK prove your right to work using immigration documents, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Digital identity certification for right to work, right to rent and criminal record checks, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- GOV.UK find registered digital identity and attribute services, read 2026-11-07: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) (Code of Practice and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2018, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
6 of the 13 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in day (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 27 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per check type - manual document check, Home Office online check with a share code, identity document validation through a certified provider, and the Employer Checking Service - against each column of the duty: which people it may be used for, which documents or codes it accepts, what evidence must be retained and for how long, how long the statutory excuse lasts, and when a follow-up check falls due.
Every cell quoted verbatim from the employer's guide, the code of practice or the Act, with the version it comes from.
The derivation nobody publishes is the DIFF: the guide is reissued several times a year (26 June 2025 in force, a draft dated 16 July 2026 already published, an extension of the scheme announced for 1 October 2026), so a version-to-version diff of what changed, when it took effect and which employers it caught out is a dataset in its own right - and it is exactly what a compliance buyer subscribes to.
27 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (13)
- Employer's guide to right to work checks, 26 June 2025(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Draft employer's guide to right to work checks, 16 July 2026(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK checking a job applicant's right to work(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Employers' right to work checklist(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Code of practice on preventing illegal working, 13 February 2024(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK prove your right to work: get a share code online(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK prove your right to work to an employer (overview)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK prove your right to work using immigration documents(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Digital identity certification for right to work, right to rent and criminal record checks(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK find registered digital identity and attribute services(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 section 15(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- The Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) (Code of Practice and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2018(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Employer's guide to right to work checks (PDF, 26 June 2025)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Right to Work Check Rules carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 28 to 90 day, read 7 November 2026.
6 of the 13 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 7 November 2026.
Cite as: "righttoworkwizard.co.uk Right to Work Check Rules", updated 2026-11-08, https://righttoworkwizard.co.uk/datasets/right-to-work-check-rules/.
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Questions this data answers
What is a compliant right to work check, per check type, and what statutory excuse does each establish?
The Right to Work Check Rules carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 28 to 90 day, read 7 November 2026.
Where do the figures in the Right to Work Check Rules come from?
Every figure is quoted from its source's own page and dated (last read 7 Nov 2026). 13 named sources were read and 6 publish a figure; the 7 that publish none are recorded as not published, never estimated.