What the check is
A duty on landlords in England to confirm a prospective tenant is allowed to rent here, made before the tenancy begins. It applies to every adult who will occupy the property as their only or main home, not only the person named on the agreement.
Share codes
Anyone with an eVisa can only be checked with a Home Office share code, at gov.uk/view-right-to-rent. A British or Irish citizen cannot get a share code: they are checked from their original documents, usually a passport, in person or on a video call, or through a digital provider on the OFDIA register. Record the date and what you checked either way, because the check is only as good as your ability to show you made it.
Repeat checks
Where someone has time-limited permission, the first check must be made no earlier than 28 days before the tenancy starts, and a follow-up check is due before your statutory excuse ends. Under the Home Office code of practice for checks from 1 October 2026, it ends on the latest of 12 months from your check, the end of their permission, and the expiry of the document they showed. LetCompliance sets the reminder to the earlier of 12 months from the check and the end of the permission, so it never falls late. The follow-up date is tracked so it appears alongside your certificate deadlines rather than living in your head.
Where the Home Office Landlord Checking Service confirmed the right to rent, its notice gives a statutory excuse for 12 months from the date it gives, so the follow-up is due before then.
Where it shows up
Right to Rent is one of the items in the 0 to 100 compliance score, so an outstanding check pulls the property’s score down until it is done.
Keeping the copies, then destroying them
Copies of the documents you checked are kept for the tenancy plus one year, then destroyed. When a tenancy ends through End tenancy, the copies that can be matched to that tenant are marked as theirs, and the dashboard reminds you to delete them once the year is up. They are never shown in the tenant portal.
