Immigration Act 2014

The Immigration Act 2014 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. It received Royal Assent on 14 May 2014.^[5] The act makes provision to prevent private landlords from renting houses to people without legal status, to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining driving licences and bank accounts^[6] and for the investigation of sham marriages.^[7] Landlords who rent housing to illegal migrants without carrying out these checks will bear civil liability. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in a civil penalty of no more than £3,000.^[8]

Immigration Act 2014

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision about immigration law; to limit, or otherwise make provision about, access to services, facilities and employment by reference to immigration status; to make provision about marriage and civil partnership involving certain foreign nationals; to make provision about the acquisition of citizenship by persons unable to acquire it because their fathers and mothers were not married to each other[1] and provision about the removal of citizenship from persons whose conduct is seriously prejudicial to the United Kingdom’s vital interests; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2014 c. 22
Introduced by	Theresa May 10 October 2013[2]
Territorial extent	United Kingdom (although one section apply to England and Wales only)[3]
Dates
Royal assent	14 May 2014[2]
Commencement	14 July 2014[4]
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted

Only six Labour MPs opposed the Act; Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Kelvin Hopkins, John McDonnell, Fiona Mactaggart and Dennis Skinner.^[9]

The Act removes key protections for Commonwealth citizens residing in the United Kingdom that existed in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999^[10] which was a major preceding factor in the Windrush scandal that involved at least 83 wrongful deportations.^[11]