The following press release was issued by the National Maritime Center (NMC) on October 23. Separately, detailed guidance from AMO Vice President of Government Relations Christian Spain for ensuring your application for Merchant Mariner Renewal is correctly filled out is available as a four-page PDF with specific examples on the AMO website.
The National Maritime Center (NMC) will begin rejecting incomplete merchant mariner credential (MMC) application submissions during initial screening beginning December 1, 2024. MMC application submissions that are incomplete due to missing the following required items will be rejected:
* a complete CG-719B on the current version of the form
* evidence the applicant holds or has applied for a TWIC card
* evidence of payment of the required evaluation fee (use of pay.gov is the preferred method of fee payment)
* evidence of satisfying applicable drug testing requirements.
If an application package is found to be missing any of these items during initial screening, the applicant will be e-mailed a Notice of Rejected Incomplete Application indicating what is missing (see page 2 of this announcement for a sample notice). If the original submission is rejected, the applicant will have to resubmit the entire application package and include the missing item(s). The documentation in the application submission will not be retained by the NMC or returned to the applicant. Guidance on how to complete an MMC application can be found on the NMC website.
If submitting via regular mail or other courier service (FedEx, UPS, etc.), please retain a copy of your submission including all original documents.
Should you have any questions, please contact the NMC Customer Service Center by using the NMC online chat system, by , or by calling 1-888-IASKNMC (427-5662).
Sincerely,
B. W. Clare
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard
Commanding Officer