Send each tenant a link. On their phone they check their ID and their right to rent in one go, in about 3 minutes, through a certified identity service. The result and its report come back to your letting, ready to record.
occupier, before the tenancy starts, whatever their nationality. British and Irish citizens included.
Source: Home Office: Landlord's guide to right to rent checks (1 October 2026) (opens in a new tab)per occupier for a repeat breach, and up to £10,000 for a first one.
Source: NRLA: Right to Rent fines from 13 February 2024 (opens in a new tab)only. In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland the link checks ID alone.
Source: Home Office: Landlord's guide to right to rent checks (1 October 2026) (opens in a new tab)How it works
Open a letting, add the tenant and the property, and send the link. You don't need to wait on the page: we email you when they've finished.
Add the tenant and the postcode. We email them the link in your firm's name, and you can copy it to send yourself. £3.49 from your credit.
A photo of their passport and a short selfie video, or their Home Office share code if they are not British or Irish. About 3 minutes.
Verified, with the report as a PDF, on your letting. We email you as soon as it ends, whatever the outcome.
Check the photo and date of birth in the report are your tenant's, as the Home Office asks for a remote check. Their Right to Rent is then recorded.
What you get
The identity service's PDF: their photo, the document and every check it ran. Until 5 years after you mark the transaction complete, or 6 years after the check if you never do, then deleted. You can delete a report sooner once you have filed a copy.
Who checked, how, when and the result: your statutory excuse if the Home Office asks, on the letting's signed certificate.
A time-limited right to rent gets its follow-up date worked out, so the next check isn't missed.
Verified, needs review, or the link expired: you hear once, with what to do next.
Questions
Yes. The check is run by Vouchsafe, a registered digital verification service (DVS, also called an identity service provider or IDSP) certified under the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework and listed on the GOV.UK register. For a British or Irish passport it is the remote check the Home Office guidance describes, using identity document validation technology (IDVT); tenants who aren't British or Irish give their Home Office share code in the same link instead.
Yes, that is what this check is for. British and Irish citizens can't get a Home Office share code, so the way to check them without seeing their passport in person is a certified digital check. They photograph their passport and record a short selfie on their phone, and you confirm the photo in the report is theirs.
Check that the photo and date of birth in the report are your tenant's, when you meet them or on a video call. The Home Office asks landlords and agents to do this whenever a digital service does the check. Then tick the box and press Confirm, and the Right to Rent is recorded with its dates.
The link works for 7 days, and the identity service sends them reminders. If they don't finish, or can't be verified, the £3.49 comes back to your credit and you can send a new link or check them yourself.
Yes. The GOV.UK share code check is free and recording it in Certaby is free. The link saves you seeing a British or Irish tenant's passport in person, and checks their ID in the same step.
No. You pay from a credit balance: the smallest top-up is £5 and credit never expires. Each link is charged when you send it.
Until 5 years after you mark the transaction complete, or 6 years after the check if you never do, then deleted. You can delete a report sooner once you have filed a copy. The Right to Rent rules ask you to keep the check's output for the tenancy and at least one year after it ends. The data stays in the UK.
Right to Rent applies in England only. For a property elsewhere, the link checks the tenant's ID alone, for £1.99.
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Sign up, add credit from £5, and open a letting. The tenants' ID and Right to Rent are set to be checked together.