a lad in our local tesco express is leaving, and starting a job on a cruise ship. he was telling me that he has got his visa.
it’s a visa that allows him to enter almost every country in the world without the need to apply to each individual embassy. this is the same for pilots, and cabin crew. it lasts for 10 years just like your passport.
shouldn’t we have something like that? is there anything like that for us?
the last one i bought cost me 150 euros.
Can’t say that I have ever heard of one of those, normally a discharge book which lasts until it’s full with entries and a passport will suffice but some countries have been known to issue a shore pass.The worst place for getting ashore is in the good ole US of A, but who in their right mind wants to go there let alone go ashore.
I’d guess that type of visa is only valid in the confines of a port.
limeyphil:
a lad in our local tesco express is leaving, and starting a job on a cruise ship. he was telling me that he has got his visa.
it’s a visa that allows him to enter almost every country in the world without the need to apply to each individual embassy. this is the same for pilots, and cabin crew. it lasts for 10 years just like your passport.
shouldn’t we have something like that? is there anything like that for us?
the last one i bought cost me 150 euros.
Interesting question. My friends Husband who is Norwegian is on a cruise liner, she met him whilst working on the same ship. I will ask if she knows what it may be.
Are you sure he doesn’t just have two or three passports and the company apply for visas as they are needed?
Wheel Nut:
limeyphil:
a lad in our local tesco express is leaving, and starting a job on a cruise ship. he was telling me that he has got his visa.
it’s a visa that allows him to enter almost every country in the world without the need to apply to each individual embassy. this is the same for pilots, and cabin crew. it lasts for 10 years just like your passport.
shouldn’t we have something like that? is there anything like that for us?
the last one i bought cost me 150 euros.Interesting question. My friends Husband who is Norwegian is on a cruise liner, she met him whilst working on the same ship. I will ask if she knows what it may be.
Are you sure he doesn’t just have two or three passports and the company apply for visas as they are needed?
from what he says, it’s a special type visa that cruise ships, and airlines can get for all the crew.
limeyphil:
Wheel Nut:
limeyphil:
a lad in our local tesco express is leaving, and starting a job on a cruise ship. he was telling me that he has got his visa.
it’s a visa that allows him to enter almost every country in the world without the need to apply to each individual embassy. this is the same for pilots, and cabin crew. it lasts for 10 years just like your passport.
shouldn’t we have something like that? is there anything like that for us?
the last one i bought cost me 150 euros.Interesting question. My friends Husband who is Norwegian is on a cruise liner, she met him whilst working on the same ship. I will ask if she knows what it may be.
Are you sure he doesn’t just have two or three passports and the company apply for visas as they are needed?
from what he says, it’s a special type visa that cruise ships, and airlines can get for all the crew.
My friend says they simply call it a Seamans Visa and it did last for 10 years. The cruise line applied for and paid for it
i think there should be something similar for us.
raymundo:
Can’t say that I have ever heard of one of those, normally a discharge book which lasts until it’s full with entries and a passport will suffice but some countries have been known to issue a shore pass.The worst place for getting ashore is in the good ole US of A, but who in their right mind wants to go there let alone go ashore.
^^This^^
All I ever had as a British seamans discharge book issued by the MCA. Although most of my time at sea was in northern Europe anyway. I remember our Filipinos having to get some kind of shore pass from the German authorities and they weren’t supposed to go ashore until they’d got it.
As for the US…Spot on!
It seems as though it is only a US requirement.
This was in a Q&A for a cruise liner job
I want to work on a cruise ship but I do not live in the U.S.A.?
That is not a problem, once hired with a cruiseline they will issue you a Letter of Employment which you need to use to obtain a C1/D Seamans visa from the U.S. consulate.
You will not be working in the U.S.A. but when the ship come to the U.S. you do need to have a seamans visa.
Wheel Nut:
It seems as though it is only a US requirement.This was in a Q&A for a cruise liner job
I want to work on a cruise ship but I do not live in the U.S.A.?
That is not a problem, once hired with a cruiseline they will issue you a Letter of Employment which you need to use to obtain a C1/D Seamans visa from the U.S. consulate.
You will not be working in the U.S.A. but when the ship come to the U.S. you do need to have a seamans visa.
This has always caused issues for crew changovers when the vessel is in the US. Often its very difficult to even obtain that visa for seamen from third world countries such as the Philipines, where a good percentage of the words sailors currently hail from. Its not usually an issue if theres lots of time to plan for it, but last minute emergancies where a replacement has to be sent out are usually problematic.
It always makes me laugh at all the crap they throw at you in a Canadian truck when you cross the border, you can’t have any sort of criminal record for example, yet the country itself is the most crime infested hell hole I’ve ever been to with swarms of people crossing the Rio Grande in to the country every day illegally. Yet they target Canadian trucks on the northern border like we’re the taliban.
I was once questioned by the border guards at length in Houlton, Maine because they didn’t believe that my routine load of frozen carrots from Nova Scotia to New Jersey was my real reason for entering the United States. They kept asking me “What is your real reason for entering the United States today?” in less polite terms…morons. They obsessed with the idea that you’re a potential terrorist or that you’ll comit cabbotage in the US with a Canadian truck.