Right to Rent Checks: A guide to immigration documents for tenants and landlords

Product Description

The primary guidance to assist landlords, letting agents and tenants when carrying out right to rent checks is the Code of practice on right to rent: civil penalty scheme for landlords and their agents and the Landlord’s guide to right to rent checks, where the list of acceptable documents can be found.

This document contains a visual guide to the types of immigration documents which can be presented by a tenant and accepted by a landlord or letting agent to satisfy a manual right to rent check. There is an FAQ section for landlords and tenants to address some common queries.

Landlords should conduct right to rent checks in a fair, justifiable and consistent manner, regardless as to whether they believe the tenant to be British, settled or a person with time-limited permission to be in the UK. Further information on avoiding discrimination is available in the Code of practice for landlords: avoiding unlawful discrimination when conducting ‘right to rent’ checks in the private rented residential sector.