CLEARING PROCEDURES
Visiting boaters must clear customs and immigration on arrival. Customs and immigration are available on property (at the seaplane base) during normal business hours. In case you expect to arrive after hours, customs and immigration attendance for clearance can be arranged by the marina upon request.
As you enter port, fly the yellow quarantine flag. Once docked, only the captain is permitted to leave the boat in order to clear the boat and crew with local customs and immigration. All passengers and crew are required to remain onboard until the vessel is cleared.
Customs clearance
All boaters have to Clear Customs to prior entering the Bahamas and obtain a PCR number (Trip Number), through the system C2C (Click to clear).
Documents, required information and payment can be uploaded and processed through the online system up to 14 days prior to entry in the Bahamas.
The required documents are available here.
Please Note that hard copies of the below documents are not required, but only need to be submitted to C2C.
Upon arrival to the Bahamas the vessel Captain needs to present themselves with the PCR number at the Local Customs office.
Link to an explanatory video
Immigration clearance
Every person entering the Bahamas must have a valid Passport and must fill out and sign an immigration card.
Before leaving the Bahamas, every visitor has to return their copy of the immigration card to the dockmaster.
Specifically, Bahamas Immigration requires the following:
Completion of Inward Passenger & Crew Manifest form which is filled out by the captain at the immigration office.