Document Verification and Right to Work Checks (RTW)
Does your organisation understand the new right to work legislation and restrictions when employing EU citizens?
Time: 0930 - 1600
Price: £375 + VAT per attendee
- Tuesday 20th September 2022 - register here
- Thursday 13th October 2022 - register here
With the raft of updates and amendments from the Home Office, it's critical that your organisation carries out right to work checks for all employees and implements the new rules accordingly to ensure compliance.
That’s quite a challenge, given the sheer volume and complexity of authenticating often unfamiliar documents - carrying out these checks correctly will protect your organisation from fines, penalties as well as reputational damage.
Right to Work Checks are changing - are your Policies in line with the October updates?
From 1st October 2022, employees will no longer be able to use the temporary Covid-adjusted right to work guidance. This means that you can no longer ask employees to share a scanned copy or photo of their documents and then confirm their identity via a video call. Firms will be able to use Identification Document Validation Technology (IDVT) to onboard new employees with a valid British or Irish passport or an Irish passport card.
All firms must ensure their existing RTW policy is updated in line with the new changes being introduced by October the 1st.
From 6th April 2022, updated guidance states that the Biometric Residence Permits (BRP), Biometric Residence Cards (BRC) or Frontier Worker Permits (FWP) are not longer acceptable as proof of right to work. BRP, BRC, and FWP holders will therefore need to evidence their right to work using the Home Office online checking service.
Why attend this Document Verification and Right to Work Course?
For the last twelve years, BFI has been running this practical and interactive workshop throughout the UK. Hear from a top immigration and document verification specialist and ensure that your policies and procedures protect your organisation.
- Understand the new restrictions upon employing EU citizens
- Implications of Brexit & the EU Settlement Scheme on checking right to work
- Understanding who can work in the UK
- Prevent illegal working: legal clarification of your responsibilities
- Is your policy legally compliant?
- How to verify a non-UK candidate’s immigration status
- What records you need to keep to prove Right to Work checks were made
- See case studies of fraudulent documents which have been used to attempt to obtain work
- Checking and verifying identity documentation from outside the UK including:
- Passports
- Birth Certificates
- Visas
Delegate feedback from this right to work course:
"Really good considering challenges of online" - New Directions
"Great informative course, provided good insight into the authenticity of ID documentation" - Dept. for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy
"Great presentation, like the interaction of the pm session" - Buckinghamshire Council
Platform: Zoom - An encrypted zoom platform with password access. Click here for further information and to test access
Prefer to run this course In-house?
We offer this course as a face-to-face or online In-house training option for groups of 5 or more – a cost effective training solution for teams, if this would be more suitable, please email molly.sampson@bfi.co.uk.
Which functions will benefit from attending
- HR and recruitment professionals, administration, training, security, risk, compliance, legal, policy, vetting and screening, operations and all line managers and directors and staff with responsibility for Right to Work checks and non- UK employee recruitment
Hear from
Schedule
Welcome and housekeeping
Ian Westwood
Immigration Consultant , The Westwood Organisation
Ian Westwood worked at the Home Office from 1993-2003. He was an operational Immigration Officer serving at Heathrow, Gatwick and Dover before being promoted to Chief Immigration Officer based in Croydon. Since then he has set up his own consultancy business, providing training and immigration advice to a variety of corporate and private clients on the subject of Immigration. He is regulated by the Office of the Immigration Service Commissioner to provide immigration advice in the UK. Ian’s training credentials include the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s Certificate of Training Practice and the Belbin Team-Role Accreditation.
Introduction to the day and identification and clarification of objectives
Context: Why checks matter
- Putting the day into context with case studies
- Standard documents you need to be aware of
Comfort break
Understanding immigration status & who can work for you
Lucy Walmsley
Senior Consultant , The Westwood Organisation
Lucy is our senior consultant, and provides corporate client support. Having previously held responsibility for immigration compliance at the University of Southampton, she has useful experience of the hoops and hurdles of compliance. Lucy regularly conjures up client guidance notes to simplify Home Office jargon and save clients from the frustration of navigating the Home Office website. Lucy is a regulated advisor with the OISC and a Chartered Member of the CIPD.
- Overview of visas which allow work
- European nationals: clarification of UKVI compliance depending on employment start date
- Humanitarian routes
- Indefinite leave to remain
- Family visas
- Hong Kong visas
- Points Based Sponsored visas: who can work for you?
- Skilled Workers
- Global Business Mobility
- Temporary Workers
- Talent visa
- Students
- Graduates
- High Potential Individuals
Comfort break
Right to work checks: Policy & practice
- Statutory Excuse What, Why, How, When
- What is the statutory excuse?
- Why is it so important
- How do you obtain it?
- When do you need to do this?
- Statutory Excuse in Practice
- Manual checks
- What to copy – passports & other docs
- Online checks
- Employer Checking Service
- IDVT checks
- GDPR compliance
- Common issues: expired documents, non-British documents, agency workers etc.
- What to do if you cannot obtain evidence of right to work.
Lunch
Checking identity documents
- Acceptable documents (List A & List B) in more detail with tips
- The four steps to document checking
- Step 1: Imposter
- Step 2: Genuine document/security features.
Comfort break
Checking identity documents (continued)
Ian Westwood
Immigration Consultant , The Westwood Organisation
Ian Westwood worked at the Home Office from 1993-2003. He was an operational Immigration Officer serving at Heathrow, Gatwick and Dover before being promoted to Chief Immigration Officer based in Croydon. Since then he has set up his own consultancy business, providing training and immigration advice to a variety of corporate and private clients on the subject of Immigration. He is regulated by the Office of the Immigration Service Commissioner to provide immigration advice in the UK. Ian’s training credentials include the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s Certificate of Training Practice and the Belbin Team-Role Accreditation.
- Four steps to document checking (continued)
- Step 3: Counterfeit document/ signs of alteration
- Step 4: Sense check
- How good do you need to be?
- What to do if you spot an irregularity
Wrap up & close
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Really useful - worked in HR for 18 years, and not had more useful identity check training.
Amazing, high quality teaching, I feel very confident about making checks going forward
Really happy I came on the course, I learnt a lot!
Very informative, left with a much clearer understanding of document certification
Very useful and very interesting, enlightening
Informative, well presented and gives you food for thought, thank you
I really enjoyed this course, I found it extremely informative and enjoyed the interaction with the other attendees.
Great informative course, provided good insight into the authenticity of ID documentation
