Rented property new legislation

[ASIF82]

HI All, I am not sure if this is the right forum but this seemed to be a little relevant for non immigration queries?

I am on Indefinite and my wife is my dependent.
My Letting Agent recently asked me to provide the copies of my passport & VISA for myself &wife. I am living in this property for last 3 years and had already provided payslips, references, credit check in the beginning. I have also enclosed the relevant link from gov.uk site. I have all proper documentation but I am always hesitant to give that much personal details to someone due to Identity Theft Issues. Can anyone please tell me what my options are, I am happy to provide him HO case reference numbers and show him my BRP & Passport in person but not let him copy it.
Your response will be highly appreciated.
https://www.gov.uk/private-renting/document-checks
Thanks

[CR001]

You are required to provide evidence of your proof of legal status/visa in the UK and your passport. It is standard. If you don't, you can probably expect a Section 21 eviction coming your way as your landlord facing a fine of thousands of pounds if he cannot verify your status and provide proof of it.

[Casa]

Look at it from your landlord's position. If he is asked by the HO for proof that he has seen your documents proving legal residence, how will he do so without providing them with a copy of your BRP & passport?

[ASIF82]

Hi, thanks for your response guys. My only concern will be that all these small Letting agents won't be having means for protecting all your personal information?

This is the only risk I see sharing too much information with anyone.

Regards

[noajthan]

Hi, thanks for your response guys. My only concern will be that all these small Letting agents won't be having means for protecting all your personal information?

This is the only risk I see sharing too much information with anyone.

Regards

That's the price paid for using a small letting agent. Landlords still have to comply with the law and act as proxy immigration officials on behalf of HO.

[CR001]

Hi, thanks for your response guys. My only concern will be that all these small Letting agents won't be having means for protecting all your personal information?

This is the only risk I see sharing too much information with anyone.

Regards

So presumably the 'small letting agent' (who operate under a code of conduct too), would have done your credit check, looked at your payslips and bank statements, loads of information on there already.

Trust me, you do not want to go through a Section 21 Eviction (It is not very nice at all) and court process because you are too scared to just submit your identity documents and proof of visas as per government guidelines and rules for landlords.

It doesn't matter where or who you rent from, this documentation will be required.

[t123456789]

I'm pretty sure letting agents and landlords aren't happy doing the UKVIs job either. But from the link you provided it clearly states:

What your landlord must do
...
make copies of your documents and keep them until you leave the property

From the list of documents you must provide:

As an ILR holder you must provide 1 document from List 1 of A or 2 documents from List 2 of A. Because you only have ILR, that effectively means your BRP.

Your wife must produce 1 document from B, which will have to be her BRP.

On the plus side, if someone is going to try steal personal data, they'll do it from a larger company because there is more data available. Who is going to try steal everything from a company nobody knows about, maybe only an unhappy employee.

If you're worried about identity theft sign up at have i been pwned. It's a free service run by a well known security expert and will send you an email if your data is stolen online.

[LilyLalilu]

The checks only need to be done for new tenants, but I suppose they are just covering their backs anyways.