No idea. I only know what’s in the same bulletin you read.
Your company Crewing head has contact information. Only the companies can submit this request. As I understand this, the rest of us are screwed as far as STCW. For me, the license extension is useless without valid STCW.
That is absolutely insane.
Just called,19,000 is real. I just put in my renewal about 7 days ago and my stuff expires in sep. I just got back as I work 4 months out then take time off “SIU” but worked almost 5 months this time.
I am screwed and i guess will have to get a land job. It is my fault really i never let it get down to a year but i had a lot going on this year in real life and for got. But maybe they will keep extending and let people sail after aug.
Yeah, I’m in the government division of an OSV company… I have to assume that my office is mentally retarded when it comes to stuff like this, so I was hoping to have the info to hold their hand and walk them through it.
Someone explain this to me. USCG was shut down for… 2.5 months, give or take a few days. How does a 2.5 month shutdown result in an 8-12 month backlog? Seems to me that if they continue processing applications at the normal rate, with the normal number of personnel, the backlog from a 2.5 month shutdown should be 2.5 months. So if it was taking 6 weeks to process an application prior to the shutdown (which was what my last upgrade took last fall), then I would expect a 4 month processing time, not an 8-12 month. What am I missing? Did a whole bunch of NMC evaluators quit or get laid off? Is 19000 applications in 2.5 months abnormally high? The maths aren’t mathing. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m not rabidly anti-NMC, but this doesn’t make sense to me.
(And, my ticket expires in ten months so I have to figure out when I want to submit my renewal, particularly given another shutdown is likely in October.)
Maybe their one printer overheats too easily so they have to process/print them slowly..
The NMC is caught in a funding squeeze due to a dysfunctional government which is Republican controlled. Maybe a deal has been reached but it will take months if not longer to recover. The DHS is just one of many agencies affected. I’d complain to my congressman but he’s part of the dysfunction.
ahahahah!!! isn’t that nuts how many times the NMC has ground to a halt because of a printer/printers has malfunctioned / needed service. We put men on the moon in 1969, but a POS gov’t printer is, at times, keeping hundreds to thousands of US citizens from returning to work on time. Now that’s retarded.
