Right-to-work checks in depth: UK statutory excuse and US Form I-9 reverification
For HR coordinators, recruiters and onboarding staff who carry out or audit right-to-work checks in the UK, the US, or both. Complete 'Right-to-work checks and new-hire records' first: it covers why checks exist, basic timing, fairness and retention. This course goes deeper: choosing the right UK check method (manual, Home Office online, digital verification service or Employer Checking Service), keeping records that preserve the statutory excuse, calculating follow-up and reverification dates, correcting Form I-9 mistakes, and keeping the process non-discriminatory. Reference checks are covered separately in 'Reference checks'. Jurisdictions: UK (Home Office employer's guide dated 1 October 2026) and US federal (USCIS I-9 Central). Rules change often; check the current official guidance and your organisation's procedure. This is not legal advice or immigration advice, and it does not qualify you as an immigration adviser; refer unusual cases to HR, legal or immigration advisers.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 98 minutes
- Contents
- 5 lessons · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 10 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Choose the UK right to work check method that fits an applicant's documents and immigration status
- Identify gaps in a UK right to work check record that would lose the statutory excuse
- Calculate follow-up check and reverification dates for time-limited permission in the UK and US
- Correct errors on a Form I-9 using the method USCIS describes
- Apply the rules that keep checks non-discriminatory, including the employee's choice of documents and who must not be reverified
Course outline
- 1.Choosing the UK right to work check methodLesson · 20 min
- 2.Identifying gaps in a UK check record that would lose the statutory excuseLesson · 20 min
- 3.Calculating follow-up and reverification dates in the UK and USLesson · 18 min
- 4.Correcting errors on a Form I-9Lesson · 14 min
- 5.Applying the rules that keep checks non-discriminatoryLesson · 14 min
- 6.Right-to-work checks in depth: UK statutory excuse and US Form I-9 reverification: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 14 questions
- 7.Right-to-work checks in depth: UK statutory excuse and US Form I-9 reverification: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 8.Final exam10 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Home Office: Employer's guide to right to work checks (1 October 2026), PDF
- GOV.UK: Right to work checks: an employer's guide (publication page and update history)
- GOV.UK: Checking a job applicant's right to work
- USCIS I-9 Central: Completing Section 2, Employer Review and Attestation
- USCIS I-9 Central: Completing Supplement B, Reverification and Rehires (formerly Section 3)
- USCIS I-9 Central: Self-Audits and Correcting Mistakes
- USCIS I-9 Central: Receipts
- USCIS I-9 Central: Remote Examination of Documents
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