Right to Work Checks: What to Do When a New Starter's Name Doesn't Match Their Documents

Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec08 Sep 2026|News archiveRight to Work Checks: What to Do When a New Starter's Name Doesn't Match Their DocumentsWhat the Home Office actually asks for, and how to clear it without moving the start date.A candidate accepts. Contracts go out. Then the right to work check comes back with a passport in one name and a National Insurance letter in another, and onboarding stops while somebody works out whether that is a problem.It happens more than most HR teams expect.