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Right to Rent on the new periodic tenancy: the re-check trap and Ground 7B tenant defence (RRA, 2026)

The Renters' Rights Act 2025 did not amend the Immigration Act 2014 but it changed the tenancy architecture around it. Fixed-term renewals are largely gone. Tenancies just continue. The landlord's Right-to-Rent re-check obligation does not stop at the fixed term - it carries on perpetually. And Ground 7B (a no-right-to-rent Home Office notice) is a mandatory 2-week ground that survived the RRA reforms unchanged. This walkthrough covers the new re-check reality, what documents the landlord can and cannot ask for (the data-minimisation point), the three failure patterns appearing in early-RRA cases, the Subject Access Request route to evidence whether a Home Office notice actually exists, and the procedural letter that gets a defective Ground 7B withdrawn.