Kukri
Well-known member
I have a friend whom I have known for years who works on big yachts, but she isn’t European; she’s east Asian. This is annoying from a career point of view, as almost by definition the big yachts that she works on are in Europe as as the managers and agents, and the inconvenience has grown as she has worked her way up from galley slave to deckhand to chief officer. She is wondering about acquiring right of abode and perhaps a second citizenship in a European nation or even the UK, but Catch-22 for the professional seafarer is that in most countries you acquire right of abode by residence, and. seafarer isn’t resident at home except when on leave. Is there anywhere that is an exception to this rule?