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Deemed Permission - Ship Crew for Vessel Operations

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What type of worker, employment situation, occupation or professional activity is this pathway actually designed for?

This deemed-permission class covers a member of a vessel's crew in the territorial seas whom the vessel's master requires to disembark for re-provisioning, loading or off-loading cargo, or vessel repair or maintenance. The Ordinance specifies those ship-operation purposes for this class.

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Does the applicant need a job offer, employer, sponsor, transfer relationship or other employer involvement? What is important about that employer relationship?

Employer involvement runs through the vessel's master, who must not allow any person to disembark unless satisfied that the person has a permit or deemed permission, must give the Principal Immigration Officer the Schedule 3 information and any other reasonably required information before a person with deemed permission under Schedule 2 paragraphs 4 to 7 disembarks, and must not allow disembarkation other than at a place authorised by the Principal Immigration Officer.

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What are the few decisive professional characteristics of the pathway: occupation, qualifications, experience, salary, skill level, shortage status, labour-market condition or equivalent?

The decisive characteristic is being a ship's crew member (Part B, deemed permission for ships' crews); Government policy says the vessel-operation limb covers a member of a crew of a vessel who is required by the master of the vessel to disembark for such purpose.

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  • The sources set no occupation, qualification, experience, salary or skill-level criteria for this class.

What work does the permission allow? Is the holder tied to an employer, occupation or sector? Can family accompany where clearly established?

The crew member is deemed to have permission to enter and reside in the Territories for a specified period, provided they are not a person who must or may be refused a permit under section 8 had they applied for one. The official sources do not state whether the permission allows work other than the listed vessel-operation purposes, and do not address family accompaniment.

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Limits of the record
  • The sources do not say whether the permission allows any work other than the listed vessel-operation purposes, and do not address family accompaniment.

How long is the permission normally granted for, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction exists if officially stated?

The statutory period for paragraph 7(a) vessel-operation crew is 48 hours, unless the Principal Immigration Officer determines a different period, which may be longer or shorter. The official provisions do not set out a renewal procedure or a longer-term residence route for this deemed-permission class.

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  • A renewal process and any longer-term residence progression for this crew class are not stated in the provisions reviewed.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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