What fresh Hell is this?

Email from our HR department:

Annual Employee Details Form & Right to Work Check

I haven’t yet received your annual employee details form and your right to work document.

Expired passports as well as current ones can be used for this as well as other forms of right to work documents, if you are unsure please ask me.

Annual? I've been here nearly twenty years and never shown them my passport. When did this crap come in? Does everybody else have to do this?