Guidance

Seafarers

UK Visas and Immigration guidance for how it handles applications made outside the UK from seafarers.

Documents

Seafarers

Details

Guidance for how applications from seafarers made outside the UK are handled by UK Visas and Immigration.

Published 13 December 2013
Last updated 21 December 2023 + show all updates
  1. Updated to reflect policy changes.

  2. Amended to reflect change to the Immigration Rules: removal of paragraph 128.

  3. Removed 'EEA nationals coming to the UK on short term visits must produce either a national identity card or a passport and are not subject to restrictions.'

  4. First published.