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Guidance for applying for a Deck CoC for Commercial and Private Yachts.

• Updated: 7 November 2023

Apply for a Graduate route visa if you’ve been on a student visa and want to stay in the UK to work - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, bring your partner and children.

• Overview

  A Graduate visa gives you permission to stay in the UK for at least 18…

• The course you studied

  To be eligible for a Graduate visa, you need to have successfully…

• How much it costs

  When you apply for a Graduate visa, you’ll need to: pay the £880…

• Documents you'll need to apply

  When you apply you’ll need to provide: a valid passport or other travel…

• Apply

  You must apply online for a Graduate visa. Check which documents you’ll…

• Your partner and children

  If your partner and children joined you in the UK as ‘dependants’ on your…

Information on how to gain a UK CoC for working Deck and Engineering Officers working on board merchant vessels and yachts.

• Updated: 21 February 2023

Apply for a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa if you've been awarded a qualification by an eligible university in the last 5 years - eligibility, fees, documents, switch, bring your partner and children

Guidance for non-UK qualified officers on how to apply for, or revalidate a Flag State Endorsement to work on UK-registered commercial vessels.

• Updated: 14 February 2025

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

Apply for the Registered Traveller service to get through UK border control faster and without filling in a landing card

Apply for a boatmasters' licence to run a passenger-carrying or non-passenger carrying commercial vessel - apply, replace, renew or upgrade your licence

Applying for market authorisation for plasma master files (PMFs) and vaccine antigen master files (VAMFs).

• Updated: 27 February 2025

• Updated: 15 April 2021