# Prove the right to work

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    ---
    type: "Service Family"
    title: "Prove the right to work"
    description: "Use the applicable immigration-status or document route so an employer can complete its statutory check."
    status: "population-complete"
    assertion_status: "normalized"
    jurisdiction: "nation-specific"
    observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    sources:
      - id: "finding-work-and-unemployment-source-register"
        title: "Finding work and unemployment"
        resource: "../source/domain-registers/finding-work-and-unemployment.v1.yaml"
        author: "organisation:okf-uk-living"
        observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    ---

    # Prove the right to work

    ## Place in the process

    This topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course
    domain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first
    safe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.

    ## What this family covers

    Use the applicable immigration-status or document route so an employer can complete its statutory check.

    The ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow
    the responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the
    confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.

    ## If the ordinary route does not fit

    If a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals
    an urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's
    exception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.

    ## Official routes

    - [England: Prove your right to work to an employer](https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work)
    - [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)
    - [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)
    - [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)

    These are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a
    handoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,
    deadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.

    ## What may follow

    The result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing
    process, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the
    ordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.

    ## Review status

    This record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review
    before any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is
    described as release-grade.