Guidance and regulation

Use this checklist to help secure your vehicle to stop people using it to enter the UK illegally.

• From: Border Force
• Updated: 15 February 2024

• Secure, check, record: have you carried out your checks? (accessible)

  Checklist in accordance with Regulation 2 of the Carriers’ Liability…

How road transport companies and their drivers must secure their vehicles to stop people using them to enter the UK illegally, and to avoid being fined.

• From: Border Force and 1 others
• Updated: 4 April 2023

A quarterly report listing the fines (civil penalties) for illegal working given to employers in London and the South East.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 16 February 2024

• Illegal working civil penalties London and South East England region: 1 July to 30 September 2023

  Trading Name Liable Party Address Post Code Final Value of Penalty Fat…

A quarterly report listing the fines (civil penalties) for illegal working given to employers in Wales and the South West.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 16 February 2024

A quarterly report listing the fines (civil penalties) for illegal working given to employers in the Midlands and East of England.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 16 February 2024

A quarterly report listing the fines (civil penalties) for illegal working given to employers in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 16 February 2024

Guidance on what to do if your application for an account is declined or if your account is closing because you are in the UK illegally.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 5 April 2024

A quarterly report listing the fines (civil penalties) for illegal working given to employers in the North West.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 16 February 2024

How the civil penalty accreditation scheme works.

• From: Border Force
• Updated: 3 May 2023

A quarterly report listing the fines (civil penalties) for illegal working given to employers in the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 16 February 2024

Immigration staff guidance on investigating sham marriages.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 28 June 2023

How Border Force decides the level of civil penalty for drivers found carrying people into the UK illegally.

• From: Border Force
• Updated: 1 December 2023

Guidance for banks and building societies on carrying out immigration status checks on current account holders and applicants.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 27 March 2023

A quarterly report showing the total number of fines (civil penalties) for illegal working given to employers in each region of the UK.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 30 August 2019

How to check for people trying to hide in your vehicle or trailer, and make your vehicle secure, so that you comply with the clandestine entrant penalty scheme.

• From: Border Force and 1 others
• Updated: 4 April 2023

A guide to the civil penalty scheme for employers who give a job to an illegal worker.

• From: Immigration Enforcement and 1 others
• Updated: 20 September 2018

Objection and appeals notice guidance for drivers who are found with clandestine entrants in their vehicles by UK Visas and Immigration.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 4 January 2022

Guide for carriers on fines for bringing a passenger to the UK who does not have the correct immigration documents.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 1 November 2002

The Immigration Act 2016 includes measures to prevent known illegal migrants from operating banks accounts.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 20 December 2017

Guidance on how to pay a fine, for drivers, companies and operators who have been fined for carrying clandestine entrants in their vehicle.

• From: Border Force
• Updated: 4 November 2020