The US National Maritime Center posted a bulletin, providing mariners with important information about Transportation Worker Identification Credential enrollment. Namely, mariners must list their occupation as merchant mariner on their TWIC applications.
As USCG informed, mariners applying for a Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) should list their occupation as merchant mariner on their TWIC applications.
In fact, the US Coast Guard relies on data provided by the Transportation Security Administration when evaluating MMC applications.
What is more, personal data supplied to TSA must match what is provided to the US Coast Guard on the MMC application. If a TWIC applicant does not list his or her occupation as merchant mariner, the USCG will not be able to reconcile the data provided by the TSA.
In such cases, mariners may be asked to work with TSA to update information, which could result in MMC application issuance delays.
Mariners can begin the application process for a TWIC in the TSA TWIC enrollment website.
