No. The Home Office introduced temporary Covid-19 concessions to facilitate social distancing which allowed employers to carry out the right to work check using electronic copy documents.
This concession ended on 30 September 2022 and employers must see the applicant’s original documents when checking right to work in order to carry out a compliant check.
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