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Navita is how applications reach the Coast Guard now.

The National Maritime Center has moved mariner credential applications into a new system. Here is what changed for you, what did not, and where we are standing when it does.

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What changed

The Coast Guard moved mariner credential applications into a new system.

What did not

The paperwork. The same documents, read by the same evaluators, held to the same standard.

Where we stand

With a Stress-Free MMC we make sure your application is submitted to the Coast Guard, and we stay on it with them until your credential is issued.

Navita is the U.S. Coast Guard's mariner credentialing system. MM-SEAS is a private company, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated in any way with the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Maritime Center, or Navita.

What changes, and what doesn't

The National Maritime Center has moved mariner applications into a new system. It changes how applications reach the Coast Guard. It does not change what the Coast Guard requires, and it does not change what we do.

What that means for you

Everything free stays free. Your records, your reminders, your sea service letters, your license guidance.

With a Stress-Free MMC, we make sure your application is submitted to the Coast Guard.

Two of our Licensing Experts still check every document before the Coast Guard sees it.

We stay on it until your credential is issued.

Some perspective

This is the fifth time the submission channel has changed.

Mariners got through the other four. Here is the whole history in one place.

At the counter

You walked it in

You carried your application into a Regional Exam Center and passed it across the counter to a person.

Then

You mailed it

The RECs began accepting applications by mail, so you no longer had to be standing there.

Then

You emailed it

Each REC took applications at its own email address, and you had to know which one was yours.

Then

One inbox

The Coast Guard consolidated to a single submission address and routed applications out to the RECs internally.

Then

The ASAP portal

Applications moved online into a portal you logged in to yourself.

Today

Navita

A new system replaces ASAP. Same application, same requirements, new front door.

What we do

Prepare. Review. Submit. Track. Resolve.

Five steps get a mariner from sea time to a credential. Navita changed one of them.

Prepare

Stress-Free MMC

Full access to the MM-SEAS Smart Application Checklist for the credential you are going for, and automated review of every document you have added for Coast Guard compliance. Nothing about this step changed.

Review

Stress-Free MMC

Two MM-SEAS Licensing Experts read every page of your application against the Coast Guard's own checklist before anyone else sees it. Nothing about this step changed either.

Submit

This is the one that changed

The channel changed again. The paperwork did not. With a Stress-Free MMC we make sure your finished application is submitted to the Coast Guard, and we handle the Coast Guard fees so you never touch pay.gov.

Track

Stress-Free MMC

We follow your application through evaluation and tell you where it stands, so you are not refreshing a portal wondering whether something went wrong.

Resolve

Stress-Free MMC

If the National Maritime Center comes back with a question or a hold, we handle the back and forth until it is cleared. We've got your back until you're holding your MMC.

One of five steps changed. The other four work exactly as they did before.

Navita is how applications reach the Coast Guard now.

What changes, and what doesn't

This is the fifth time the submission channel has changed.

Prepare. Review. Submit. Track. Resolve.

Breathe easy.