The Home Office encourage the use of Identification Document Validation Technology (IDVT) as a way to quickly and easily help companies establish the authenticity of identity documents.All employers must check that prospective employees are entitled to work in the UK...

UKVI advocate a three step check to conduct a right to work check: obtain; check and copy. The first step: obtain, seems simple enough, but you do have to receive an acceptable document from the list produced by UKVI. The document needs to be original and it needs to...

Right to Work can mean different things to different people. In the USA, some states have regulations stating people have a 'right to work' without being forced to join a union, humanitarian organisations subscribe to the concept that people have a human right to...

Her Majesty’s Passport Office has teamed up with Action Fraud to raise awareness of the need to report lost and stolen passports. Her Majesty’s Passport Office and Action Fraud have teamed up to urge people to report their lost and stolen passports to prevent...

UKVI have published the quarterly illegal working figures for 1 Oct to 31 Dec 2017: Across the UK: 624 penalties; 990 illegal workers; penalties of £1,815,000 levied Interestingly they have published who has been fined in all regions except London and the North West....

An international law enforcement operation has disrupted what is believed to be one of the most significant people smuggling networks operating between Iraq and the UK. National Crime Agency (NCA) officers arrested three suspected members of the group yesterday in the...

All employers are required to make appropriate document checks to establish an individual applicant’s identity and right to work in the UK. Failure to do so makes an employer liable to a civil penalty of up to £20,000 per employee, potential closure of business, fines...

With effect from 25th May 2018 the current European legislation relative to data protection will be superseded by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As the UK will not have completed BREXIT negotiations by this date, the GDPR will become operative within...

An E-Commerce company called us in to upskill their workforce in document verification techniques – and what great value it turned out to be! Within a week they had found their first fraudster and were confidently able to handle the situation thanks to our training....

Following a UKVI ‘raid’ which identified a number of illegal workers who had obtained employment by using fake documentation, our client decided to introduce a document verification system. As a multi sited business with a high turnover of staff in low skilled work,...

Improve risk management and avoid potentially irreparable damage to reputation Fully trained HR and recruitment staff can significantly reduce your risk of incurring a civil penalty and of reputational damage by helping to prevent the employment of illegal immigrants....

An Athens-based criminal network which smuggled migrants to the UK has been dismantled following an operation involving the UK’s organised immigration crime taskforce. The NCA-led taskforce, Project Invigor, provided significant support and intelligence to Hellenic...