ID DocumentScan helps employers to acquire a statutory excuse from payment of a civil penalty

According to the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006; employers have a responsibility to prevent illegal migrant working in the UK. Employers may be liable for a civil penalty of up to £10,000 per illegal worker employed unless they have complied with the requirements to demonstrate a statutory excuse.

In order to acquire the excuse, employers are required to check

  • the validity of the ID document,
  • whether the individual is the person named in the document he/she presents, and
  • whether he/she is entitled to work in the UK.
These checks are all part of the ID Check process of ID DocumentScan. The excuse must be established before the employment begins. By carrying out a check with ID DocumentScan employers can demonstrate that they have complied with the law on the prevention of illegal migrant working.

A compliant ID check shall be considered to have been conducted where you can provide copies of the allowable documents for all relevant employees and can prove that the required steps were taken when checking these documents. With ID DocumentScan you can do exactly this since copies of the relevant pages of ID documents are stored in a secure database and a clear overview of the ID check can be demonstrated via the automatically generated PDF report.

In short, with ID DocumentScan every employer will be entitled to a statutory excuse and no penalty may be payable, even if illegal migrant workers are found to be working.