Comment on Chippie owner given ‘devastating’ £40,000 fine by Home office for allegedly illegal hire
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days agoThat’s why businesses insist on seeing your actual passport. Not a picture of it.
I can give you a picture of anything, that’s been true for years even before the rise of image generation AI. I once had to mail my passport via recorded courier to a company in London in order to apply for a job in Leeds. Hell of a pain but necessary.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I had a job and they only wanted a picture scan of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Yeah this was for a pretty secure job where you had to be a citizen in order to be eligible, so they would been a bit oversensitive with the passport, but really every business should see the physical passport because I could send them anything.
It’s easy enough to fake a picture of a passport but much harder to fake the actual passport. If someone’s coming into the business on their first day just have them bring the passport with them on that day. The only reason I had to mail my passport was because I was going to work in a remote office.