Changes from 1 October 2026
If you use agency staff, subcontractors, zero-hours workers, or people engaged through gig or platform work, you’re about to become responsible for checking them too.
From 1 October 2026, the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 extends right to work obligations beyond direct employees to cover all of them.
Liability now travels along the supply chain. You can be responsible for a worker you never directly employed, and more than one business in the same chain can be liable for the same person.
Amiqus already covers the checks you need, however someone joins your workforce.
Every route, one evidence store
Candidates prove their right to work in different ways, and Amiqus handles all of them in a single check:
UK and Irish passports
Verified digitally
eVisas
Retrieved directly from the Home Office
Supporting documents
For British and Irish citizens without a passport
Whichever route someone takes, you get the same report, the same activity log, and the same evidence store.
Built for high-volume and high-risk hiring
This matters most where hiring is fast, high-volume, or runs through other organisations:
- UK employers hiring at scale, especially logistics, delivery and warehousing, where throughput makes manual right to work checks a real compliance risk
- Healthcare and NHS organisations with high-volume hiring and heavy use of agencies and subcontractors
- Recruitment agencies and RPOs placing candidates, where background-check responsibility sits with you
If you engage staff through any of these routes, the expanded rules apply to them too, and Amiqus checks work the same way regardless of how someone is engaged.
Amiqus – trusted at scale
Amiqus is trusted by organisations in healthcare and recruitment to deliver fast, compliant right to work checks at scale.
- 80% of checks complete within 24 hours
- Amazon: 80% of basic criminal record checks returned within 1 hour
- Used across legal, recruitment, financial services and healthcare
Trusted by
Built on accredited infrastructure
Amiqus is certified as a Digital Verification Service provider under the UK Government’s DVS Trust Framework, providing high confidence identity profiles.
From 1 October 2026, digital right to work checks must run through a provider specifically registered as RTW DVSP, not just generally accredited. Amiqus already meets that bar.
Get started
For existing Amiqus clients
Your right to work check already covers the expanded rules. Nothing new to set up.
If you’re not yet a client
If you engage agency workers, contractors, gig workers or hire at volume, you can be ready for the new regulations in days, not months, with a check that already covers them.
FAQ
Do I need right to work checks for contractors and agency workers?
From 1 October 2026, yes. The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 extends right to work obligations beyond direct employees to agency workers, subcontractors, and gig or platform workers.
Can Amiqus check eVisa share codes?
Yes. Amiqus retrieves eVisa results directly from the Home Office as part of the same check as a passport verification.
What happens if I don’t check someone’s right to work?
Liability can now extend along the supply chain to businesses that didn’t directly employ the worker. Civil penalties of up to £60,000 apply per illegal worker.