UK Right to Work
Verification
Verify employment eligibility with a UK Right to Work Check from Sterling
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Speed up hiring with UK Right to Work Verification
Modern hiring starts with identity, and with every company in the UK legally required to carry out Right to Work checks or risk significant fines, verification accuracy is essential. It’s all too easy for someone to obtain forged documents, enabling them to present a false identity when applying for work. With an 8% year-on-year increase in identity fraud1, this is becoming a growing concern for hiring managers everywhere.
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Sterling’s new UK Right to Work Verification checks a candidate’s identity documents using a unique combination of artificial intelligence and, as required, expert human review, to validate documentation. The net result of the service is that it helps to speed up screening and hiring, provides a better candidate experience, and reduces fraud all at once.
This innovative solution is available to employers as a stand alone service to help ensure UK Right to Work obligations are met, or as part of a wider background screening programme to mitigate the risk of a bad hire. Empowering employers to easily check Right to Work eligibility is key to streamlining the recruitment process.
Technology that helps you
remain compliant
Sterling’s UK Right to Work Verification service was developed with compliance in mind and is designed to automatically incorporate future legal obligations and relevant changes in immigration legislation from the UK Home Office. Sterling's close collaboration with relevant Government authorities means that when it comes to solutions such as our Right to Work service, we are able to integrate the technology needed ahead of time to help ensure it captures everything needed for Digital Identity Screening.

Delivering a great employer
and candidate experience
Nearly 70 percent2 of candidates believe the way a company treats them during the hiring process reflects how it treats its employees, which is why providing a UK Right to Work Check process that can be completed simply and easily via a mobile device is so important. As well as guiding candidates carefully through every step of the process, the intuitive mobile-friendly UK Right to Work Verification service from Sterling provides a positive, technology driven, people-first reflection of your brand.
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The importance of getting UK employee Right to Work checks ‘Right’
£60k
fine for each illegal worker employed if the correct Right to Work checks are not carried out3
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think the way a company treats them during the hiring process reflects how it treats its employees5
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The importance of getting UK Right to Work checks ‘Right’


Sterling’s UK Right to Work
Verification Helps You:
- Integrate ID technology seamlessly into Right to Work verifications, to help deter identity fraud and create safer workplaces
- Provide a simple, fast, and guided mobile candidate experience available anywhere, at any time
- Incorporate future compliance considerations issued by the UK Home Office
- Improve verification accuracy with high-quality documentation and biometric data
- Obtain verification results that integrate seamlessly into your current hiring process
Modernize the
Candidate Experience
Show candidates that your business is committed to creating a safe workplace with fast, modern, and convenient technology. With Sterling’s UK Right to Work Verification, candidates can complete the process in just a few minutes using their smartphone.

Step 1 - Request Right to Work Verification
Start the process by including UK Right to Work Verification as part of candidate checks and they’ll receive a request for information as step 1 of the short guided journey.
Step 2 - Snap Images
Your candidate follows simple, guided steps to snap pictures of their Right to Work documents and themselves with their smartphone. Sterling leverages artificial intelligence-powered software to validate the documents, and facial recognition technology matches the candidate’s selfie to the photo on the documents.
Step 3 - Verify Right to Work ID
Sterling’s algorithms verify your candidate’s identity, match selfie images with documentation, determine document authenticity, and deliver results to you.


A Solution Designed to
Fit Your Needs
Regardless of your industry or the size of your organisation, Right to Work verification is essential. From gig economy to large corporations, Sterling’s UK Right to Work Verification integrates seamlessly into your existing systems and processes, enabling you to check employee Right to Work status during the hiring process without inconvenience.
Connect with us to discuss how our services help you verify Right to Work quickly and easily.
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