Right to Work Checks & Document Verification Workshop
Are you confident you're up to date with new Right to Work legislation and restrictions when employing Non-UK nationals?
Time: 0930 - 1630
Cost: £395 + VAT per attendee
All dates: register
- Tuesday, 28th January '25
- Tuesday, 25th March '25
Right to Work checks and Document Verification: Guidance for employers and HR professionals
The new Labour Government have yet to confirm proposed changes to immigration law, but UK employers continue to rely on overseas workers to fill vacancies across many sectors. You're required to carry out Right to Work Checks for all employees, whatever their nationality, and need to understand the latest Home Office requirements to ensure compliance. That’s quite a challenge, given the sheer volume and complexity of authenticating often unfamiliar documents. Carrying out these checks correctly can be daunting, especially for those new to the role.
This is the UK's most tried and trusted Right to Work and Document Verification training course
For almost two decades, BFI has been running this practical and interactive workshop throughout the UK. Our experienced immigration and document verification specialists ensure that your policies and procedures protect your organisation from fines of up to £60,000 and reputational damage. Individual fines have tripled to £45,00 per illegal worker.
We've trained thousands of organisations to:
- Understand the latest updates and rule changes from the Home Office
- IDSP - Digital Right to Work checks
- Statutory Excuse: requirements to avoid penalties
- New requirements for employing EU citizens
- Legacy of Brexit and the EU Settlement Scheme on Right to Work
- Understand who can and cannot work in the UK and what happens if you get it wrong
- Get to grips with the latest rules for employing students
- Prevent illegal working: full clarification of all your legal responsibilities
- Verify a non-UK candidate's immigration status
- Understand what records you need to keep to prove RTW checks were made thoroughly
- Verify documentation: essential skills and tips
- Compare examples of real and fake documents
- Check and verify identity documentation from outside the UK, including
- passports
- photo ID and driving licenses
- birth certificates
- supporting documents
- stamps
- visas
We build in time to examine specific cases and questions too – so take advantage of any issues that you or your team may have and bring them along for our experts.
Here's why the event is often a sell-out - 100% would recommend to a colleague:
"Very informative, I left confident that I know what to look out for in ID documents and what documents are required for RTW check in different situations." - VIMA
"It was very informative and I really appreciated the trainers getting us involved rather than just talking at us." - Claranet
"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
"Very informative and easy to follow slides. Found the examples very helpful and speakers were very clear and answered questions to give us a better understanding of the new legislation"
"I am new to HR and my role involves recruitment and on boarding (everything to do with pre-employment). Understanding more about right to work checks, the different types of right to work checks, etc was helpful and I can incorporate this into my job" -
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 – a cost effective training solution for teams, if this would be more suitable, please email catherine.ouston@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
Schedule
Welcome, housekeeping, aims & objectives for the day
Context: Why checks matter
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.
- 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)
- 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
Final questions and wrap up
End of workshop
Right to Work Checks & Document Verification Workshop
Including post-election updates
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
