Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124304, on Immigrants: Employment, whether her Department has considered allowing people to use alternative forms of ID to prove their employment status while their immigration documents are processed.
There are no plans to expand the list of documents an individual can use to demonstrate a right to work. Acceptable right to work documents are set out in legislation. Employers seeking to verify an individual’s right to work where there is an outstanding immigration application, administrative review or appeal can use the Home Office’s Employer Checking Service. This is designed to ensure that where individuals have a right to work, employment can commence with minimal delay.