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Re: BVI Work Permits for Boat Maintenance
[Re: Maria_and_Steve]
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09/24/2016 05:51 PM
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GlennA
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Everything I have seen and heard down here indicates it only applies for boats on the hard. It does not apply to crews doing normal maintenance on boats in the water.
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Re: BVI Work Permits for Boat Maintenance
[Re: Maria_and_Steve]
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09/25/2016 07:48 AM
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Re: BVI Work Permits for Boat Maintenance
[Re: Maria_and_Steve]
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09/25/2016 09:11 AM
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OK, it just seemed like that you were saying that this was something that hadn't been mentioned before... That's why I was confused.
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Re: BVI Work Permits for Boat Maintenance
[Re: Maria_and_Steve]
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09/25/2016 09:53 AM
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GlennA
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There is no duty on parts for boats in transit which includes boats temporarily on the hard. Duty is 20% on parts intended for local or perminently based boats.
Also, to my knowlege, there is no duty for ships stores (i.e. food, liquor, etc for consumption on board.)
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: BVI Work Permits for Boat Maintenance
[Re: sail2wind]
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09/26/2016 04:51 PM
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There's a long thread on the Facebook USVI Cruisers group. Keith LiGreci, the boatyard manager at Nanny Cay, is trying to get clarification on owners working on their private boats.
We'll be coming over from St. Thomas for Cat Fight. With any luck there will be more clarity regarding crew needing to report for check in and duty on provisions. It would be FUBAR if we had to pay duty on all of our provisions in order to spend two nights at Jost.
Cheers, RickG
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Re: BVI Work Permits for Boat Maintenance
[Re: sail2wind]
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09/26/2016 05:07 PM
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Spares and Ships Stores can be difficult when you consider the standard charter originating on St. Thomas. The BVI has never been consistent with enforcement and many visitors do not accurately report what they have and the intent for the goods. A legitimate spare would be a single impeller or fan belt intended to be held as a spare and not planned to be used while in the territory. A case of impellers, a case of filters, a case of belts intended for a BVI based charter operator's use on Tortola would be different. A boat with gallons of paint expected to be applied during a stay at Nanny Cay would be different. When it comes to legitimate ship's stores that would be a supply of goods expected to still be mostly onboard at departure or replenished in the BVI before departure. Goods imported with the expectation they would be mostly consummed would be taxable. Consider how many on this board handle the importation of a cooler of meat for consumption aboard a boat. The BVI uses the term "home use". We owe the duty on goods intended for consumption whether it is collected or not. Spare parts may be brought into the BVI for vessels in transit without the payment of duty. The Comptroller of Customs may, however, prescribe certain conditions for the handling of such imports. The duty on most marine spares is 5% of the value including shipping costs and insurance. Before you flame me and cry in some form of rage... What is the difference between a cooler of meat in my baggage at EIS and a St. Thomas boat showing up for a week with a plan to go home empty clearing customs with $2,000 of beer and Pringles? No duty is owed on my iPad I plan to take back out on the way home. I do owe collected or uncollected the duty on the Pringles and Miller Lite my guest devour and do not replenish locally.
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Re: BVI Work Permits for Boat Maintenance
[Re: Maria_and_Steve]
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09/27/2016 04:41 PM
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The standard work permit application requires a copy of your trade license. Is there an exemption for the trade license if you're working on your own boat? There is also a requirement for a blood test and doctors certificate. Will everyone need to do that? Is there anyone out there who has successfully gone thru the process? Here is the official link for the requirements.
Last edited by JasonHelmbrecht; 09/27/2016 04:44 PM.
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Re: BVI Work Permits for Boat Maintenance
[Re: Winterstale]
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09/28/2016 07:10 AM
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Here is some cut and paste from the laws of The United States: Unpaid Work is Work – Make Sure You Have the Correct Visa
to distinguish whether volunteer work is unauthorized, it is helpful to understand the government’s motives in setting up this regime. The USCIS’s goal is to prevent foreign nationals who have employment restrictions in engaging in work which could give them an advantage over U.S. citizens or which could drive down Americans’ wages or benefits. Therefore, it is not permitted to volunteer for a productive position which is usually paid. The rationale is that if you are offering to work without a pay in a job which would otherwise be filled by an American who would be paid, then you are subverting the employment authorization system’s goals and undercutting Americans’ job prospects and wages.
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Re: BVI Work Permits for Boat Maintenance
[Re: GeorgeC1]
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09/28/2016 09:12 AM
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Hey, don't give them any ideas!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" />
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