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Find out what you need to do when hiring crew to work on a ship or yacht - qualifications, certificates of competency, crew agreements and crew lists
When you’re hiring crew for a ship or yacht, you must: check crew members’…
You must check crew members’ discharge books to make sure everyone has the…
You must follow international regulations from Standards in Training…
A crew agreement is an employment contract between a ship or yacht’s…
All crew members must have either: a valid passport a Seafarers Identity…
The master or skipper of a UK-registered ship must provide the ship’s…
This collection brings together the guidance on handling applications made outside the UK from crew members used by UK Visas and Immigration.
Find out what certain terms mean that are connected to employee travel.
Use form C96 to declare the crew's effects.
Requirements for crew agreements to be maintained on UK sea-going ships and yachts which are not subject to the MLC.
Immigration staff guidance on refusing crew members.
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