Immigration Act: part 2 - access to services
Part 2 of the Immigration Act concerns access to services.
Documents
Details
Part 2 of the act will make it harder to live and work in the UK illegally by:
- making it easier for private landlords to evict illegal migrant tenants
- creating a new criminal offence for rogue landlords, dishonest landlords and agents who exploit migrants and repeatedly fail to carry out right to rent checks
- ensuring that those unlawfully present in the UK are not able to drive
- preventing illegal migrants from retaining UK driving licences
- delivering the Prime Minster’s commitment to require banks and building societies to take action against existing account holders who are unlawfully residing in the UK
- placing a duty on banks and building societies to carry out periodic checks of the immigration status of existing current account holders
Further information
Last updated 12 July 2016 + show all updates
-
New Immigration Act factsheets on access to services.
-
Bank accounts: statement of intent added.
-
Updated factsheets.
-
New Home Office policy equality statement (PES).
-
First published.