Employee identity checking for posts without Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

Right to work in the UK

This section applies to all external applicants

Appointment to posts within Dorset Council will be subject to an identity check to satisfy asylum and immigration requirements. Appointments cannot proceed until this requirement has been properly satisfied.

If you are attending a face to face interview

Please bring the following to your selection interview:

• one original document (or combination where specified) from List A to your selection interview, or if you don't have any of the documents in List A, bring one document (or a combination where specified) from List B
• originals and a photocopy of each document required as evidence of identity

The managers will retain a copy of all documents and return the original documents to you.

The copies you provide will be kept with your confidential records. These copies will be destroyed if you are not appointed, or, retained on your personal file if you accept an offer of employment.

If the post you are applying for requires a DBS check, you will be required to produce further additional documents to verify your identity. 

If you are attending a virtual interview (e.g. via Teams or Skype)

Before your interview, please provide a scanned version or picture of one document (or combination where specified) from List A. If you don't have any of the documents in List A, you can supply a scanned version or picture of one document (or a combination where specified) from List B. 

The copies you provide will be kept with your confidential records. These copies will be destroyed if you are not appointed. If you are successful at interview it will be a condition of your offer that you produce (in a socially distancing manner) originals of the requested documents.

List A (right to work in the UK)

At interview, you should produce any one of the documents listed below:

• a passport (current or expired) showing that you are, or are named as the child of, a British citizen or a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies having the right of abode in the United Kingdom
• a passport or passport card (current or expired) showing that you are a national of the Republic of Ireland
• a current document issued by the Home Office to a family member of an EEA or Swiss citizen, and which indicates you as the holder are permitted to stay in the United Kingdom indefinitely
• a document issued by the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Bailiwick of Guernsey or the Isle of Man, which has been verified as valid by the Home Office Employer Checking Service, showing that you as the holder have been granted unlimited leave to enter or remain under Appendix EU to the Jersey Immigration Rules, Appendix EU to the Immigration (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Rules 2008 or Appendix EU to the Isle of Man Immigration Rules
• a current Biometric Immigration Document (Biometric Residence Permit) issued by the Home Office which indicates that you are allowed to stay indefinitely in the United Kingdom or that there is no time limit on your stay in the United Kingdom (an expired Biometric Residence Permit will not be accepted)
• a current passport endorsed to show that you are exempt from immigration control, and are allowed to stay indefinitely in the United Kingdom, have the right of abode in the United Kingdom, or have no time limit on your stay in the United Kingdom
• a current Immigration Status Document issued by the Home Office to you with an endorsement indicating that you are allowed to stay indefinitely in the United Kingdom or have no time limit on your stay in the United Kingdom, together with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance number and name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer
• a full birth or adoption certificate issued in the United Kingdom  together with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance number and name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer
• a birth or adoption certificate issued in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Ireland together with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance Number and name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer
• a certificate of registration or naturalisation as a British citizen, together with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance number and name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer

Please note that if you have changed your name and the evidence you provide is in different names, you should provide evidence of your name change (e.g. marriage certificate, name change via deed poll etc) for each change of name and the reason for the name change. 

List B - group 1 (right to work in the UK)

• a current passport endorsed to show that you are allowed to stay in the United Kingdom and that you are currently allowed to do the type of work in question
• a current Biometric Immigration Document (Biometric Residence Permit) issued by the Home Office to you which indicates that you can stay in the United Kingdom and that you are allowed to do the work in question
• a current document issued by the Home Office to a family member of an EEA or Swiss citizen, and which indicates that you as the holder are permitted to stay in the United Kingdom for a time limited period and to do the type of work in question
• a document issued by the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Bailiwick of Guernsey or the Isle of Man, which has been verified as valid by the Home Office Employer Checking Service, showing that you as the holder have been granted limited leave to enter or remain under Appendix EU to the Jersey Immigration Rules, Appendix EU to the Immigration (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Rules 2008 or Appendix EU to the Isle of Man Immigration Rules
• a frontier worker permit issued under regulation 8 of the Citizens' Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
• a current Immigration Status Document containing a photograph issued by the Home Office to you with a valid endorsement indicating that you may stay in the UK, and you are allowed to do the type of work in question, together with an official document giving your permanent National Insurance number and your name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer

List B - group 2 (right to work in the UK)

• a document issued by the Home Office showing that you as the holder have made an application for leave to enter or remain under Appendix EU to the immigration rules (known as the EU Settlement Scheme) on or before 30 June 2021 together with a Positive Verification Notice from the Home Office Employer Checking Service
• a document issued by the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Bailiwick of Guernsey or the Isle of Man showing that you as the holder have made an application for leave to enter or remain under Appendix EU to the Jersey Immigration Rules or Appendix EU to the Immigration (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Rules 2008 together with a Positive Verification Notice from the Home Office Employer Checking Service
• an Application Registration Card issued by the Home Office stating that you as the holder are permitted to take the employment in question, together with a Positive Verification Notice from the Home Office Employer Checking Service
• a Positive Verification Notice issued by the Home Office Employer Checking Service to the employer or prospective employer, which indicates that you as the named person may stay in the UK and are permitted to do the work in question
• a Certificate of Application (digital or non-digital) issued by the Home Office showing that you as the holder have made an application for leave to enter or remain under Appendix EU to the immigration rules (known as the EU Settlement Scheme), on or after 1 July 2021, together with a Positive Verification Notice from the Home Office Employer Checking Service