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Right-to-Work Check Assistant

Getting a right-to-work check wrong is a £45,000 civil penalty per worker (£60,000 for repeat offences, from Feb 2024). This validates the share code, tells you exactly when your next check is due, and lists the Section 15 evidence you must hold.

LIVE ENGINE · Section 15 IANA 2006 · Home Office share-code format · runs in your browser

Worked examples:

Worker name (for the evidence record) Immigration route Check method

Share code

Home Office share codes are 9 characters — letters I and O are never used (to avoid confusion with 1 and 0).

Visa expiry date

Check result

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Section 15 statutory-excuse evidence you must hold

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Right-to-work checks are NOT regulated immigration advice — any employer may run them. This tool validates the share-code format, computes your Section 15 follow-up window and expiry-alert severity, and lists the evidence to retain. It does not itself establish a statutory excuse: you must correctly evidence the check and hold the record for the duration of employment plus two years. It is not immigration advice — where a case raises an advice question (ambiguous conditions, complex dependants, settled-status nuance) it must go to an OISC Level 3 or SRA-regulated adviser. Civil penalty £45,000 first offence / £60,000 repeat (from 13 Feb 2024).