Migrant Workers: Shipping

(asked on 5th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an estimate of the number non-EEA seafarers who have taken up employment as crew on vessels engaged in offshore wind maintenance and construction projects in UK territorial waters since June 2017.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 8th June 2018

This concession, which operates outside of the Immigration Rules, has been introduced, and extended until 21 April 2019, to afford the industry opportunity to take steps to regularise its arrangements for employing non-EEA crew of vessels engaged in the construction and maintenance of wind farms located in UK territorial waters.

The concession is not subject to a mandatory visa requirement and the Home Office does not have information on the number of non-EEA workers admitted to work in territorial waters under these arrangements. The Home Office provides guidance on the operation of the concession at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/offshore-wind-workers-immigration-rules-concession-2017, and other available immigration employment routes at https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas.

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