Guidance

Overseas domestic workers: supporting documents

Information for overseas domestic workers in a private household and their employers.

From:
UK Visas and Immigration
Published
27 July 2018
Last updated
25 February 2026 — See all updates

Documents

Leaflet for persons coming to the UK as an overseas domestic worker

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Appendix domestic worker statement

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This leaflet sets out your employment rights as a domestic worker in the UK and explains how to access support if these rights aren’t being met.

You need the ‘Appendix domestic worker statement’ to apply to come to the UK to work as a domestic worker.

Updates to this page

Published 27 July 2018
Last updated 25 February 2026 + show all updates

  1. Updated information about making a new application for permission to come to the UK from 25 February 2026.

  2. Removed 'Statement of written terms and conditions of employment: overseas domestic workers' and 'Employer statement: overseas domestic workers'. Added 'Appendix domestic worker statement'.

  3. First published.

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