Lion checks tenant’s right to rent – why it matters:

An increasing number of landlords have been fined in what appears to be a new crackdown on illegal immigration. Fines totalling £163,000 were issued to 236 property owners between the start of February 2016 and June this year. That is more than one a day.

The Right to Rent scheme under the Immigration Act 2014 was introduced in England in February 2016 and requires landlords to check prospective tenants’ immigration status and refuse housing to those without the appropriate ‘Right to Rent’.

Landlords can face up to five years in prison and/or an unlimited fine on prosecution as well as the already existing civil penalty scheme of up to £3,000 for each person found not to have a Right to Rent.

For more information please read:

https://painsmith.co.uk/right-to-rent-home-office-enforcement-figures/