View and Prove Your Immigration Status Online: UK Guide

How to Access the Service

1. Go to GOV.UK View and Prove your immigration status
2. Sign in to your UKVI account. GOV.UK says you can sign in with a passport, a national identity card, a biometric residence card (valid or expired), an expired biometric residence permit, or your UKVI customer number
3. You also need access to the mobile phone number or email address the account uses, because a code is sent to it
4. View your eVisa: your immigration status, the conditions attached to it, and its expiry date

The service is free. If you do not have a UKVI account yet, you create one first — see the GOV.UK eVisa pages.

Generating a Share Code

When you need to prove your status to someone else:

1. Sign in to your UKVI account
2. Choose your reason. GOV.UK says you can get a share code to prove your status to people such as employers or landlords, or when you travel
3. The service generates a share code (a combination of letters and numbers)
4. Give the share code and your date of birth to the person checking your status
5. They enter these on the GOV.UK employer or landlord checking service

A share code lasts 90 days, and you can use the same code as many times as you need before it expires. You can get a new one whenever you need one. For right to work checks, an employer uses the online service rather than checking physical documents.

The Move to eVisas

GOV.UK says eVisas have replaced physical immigration documents. What that means in practice:

• Biometric residence permits stopped being issued at the end of 2024. Permits already held expired on 31 December 2024, even where the permission to stay ran on past that date. The permission itself did not end — only the card did
• An expired permit still has one use: you can sign in to your UKVI account with it
• A visa sticker (vignette) in a passport stays valid until it expires. A biometric residence card may still be usable in some situations
• Your status is held digitally in your UKVI account, linked to the travel document details you add to it
• When you get a new passport, add the new details to your UKVI account before you travel

See our eVisa guide for more detail on the transition. Check GOV.UK eVisa guidance.

Common Issues

• Cannot sign in: Check you are using a document the service accepts, and that you can still receive messages at the phone number or email address on the account. If either has changed, you update the account first.
• Status wrong or missing: GOV.UK has a report an error with your eVisa service — for example if it shows the wrong date of birth or the wrong immigration status.
• Changed your name, nationality or photo: Update your UKVI account before you generate a share code.
• New passport: Add the new travel document details to your UKVI account.
• Employer does not accept the share code: Direct them to the GOV.UK employer checking service. Some employers are unfamiliar with the system.

For Employers and Landlords

If someone gives you a share code:

1. Go to the GOV.UK online checking service — check a job applicant's right to work for employers, or check a tenant's right to rent for landlords
2. Enter the share code and the person's date of birth
3. View their immigration status and conditions
4. This provides you with a statutory excuse against penalties

Right to rent checks apply to landlords in England only. There is no equivalent duty in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

For more, see our right to work check guide and renting guide.

Next Steps

Sign in and check your eVisa now, so you find any error before somebody else does. If you have a new passport, add its details to your UKVI account. Generate a share code once before you need one, so the process is familiar. If you run into problems, see our Home Office contact guide for how to reach UKVI. For landlord checks, see our right to rent guide.

Related guides:

• eVisa UK Guide
• BRP Explained
• Right to Work Check Guide
• Renting in the UK

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