feat: add seafarer registration feature with multi-step form

- Implemented SeafarerRegistrationPage component with five-step registration process. - Added API endpoints for seafarer registration including start, save, and submit functionalities. - Created necessary types and constants for seafarer registration. - Updated router to include new registration paths and permissions. - Integrated profile defaults to pre-fill registration fields where applicable. - Added validation and error handling for registration steps. - Enhanced document upload functionality specific to seafarer registration.
2026-08-26 19:12:50 +00:00 · 2026-08-20 07:14:57 +00:00
parent 688b111b6a
commit 818964a694
24 changed files with 2147 additions and 445 deletions
--- a/apps/backoffice/src/app/features/seafarer-registration-review/pages/SeafarerRegistrationQueuePage.tsx
+++ b/apps/backoffice/src/app/features/seafarer-registration-review/pages/SeafarerRegistrationQueuePage.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+import { useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
+import { Badge, Container, Group, Select, Text, TextInput, Title } from '@mantine/core';
+import { IconSearch } from '@tabler/icons-react';
+import { useDebouncedValue } from '@mantine/hooks';
+import {
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_COLORS,
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_LABELS,
+  displaySeafarerAnswer,
+  useListSeafarerRegistrationsQuery,
+  type SeafarerRegistration,
+  type SeafarerRegistrationStatus,
+} from '@ema-platform/api';
+import { AdvancedTable, type AdvancedColumn } from '@ema-platform/ui';
+import { useDateDisplayer } from '@ema-platform/shared';
+
+const PAGE_SIZE = 10;
+
+const STATUS_FILTERS = (Object.keys(SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_LABELS) as SeafarerRegistrationStatus[])
+  .filter((s) => s !== 'DRAFT')
+  .map((value) => ({ value, label: SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_LABELS[value] }));
+
+export function applicantName(r: Pick<SeafarerRegistration, 'firstName' | 'middleName' | 'lastName'>): string {
+  return [r.firstName, r.middleName, r.lastName].filter(Boolean).join(' ') || '—';
+}
+
+/** Submitted seafarer registrations, oldest first — click a row to review it. */
+export function SeafarerRegistrationQueuePage() {
+  const navigate = useNavigate();
+  const showDate = useDateDisplayer();
+  const [status, setStatus] = useState<SeafarerRegistrationStatus | null>(null);
+  const [search, setSearch] = useState('');
+  const [debouncedSearch] = useDebouncedValue(search, 300);
+  const [page, setPage] = useState(0);
+  const [pageSize, setPageSize] = useState(PAGE_SIZE);
+
+  const { data, isLoading, isFetching, refetch } = useListSeafarerRegistrationsQuery({
+    status: status ?? undefined,
+    search: debouncedSearch || undefined,
+    take: pageSize,
+    skip: page * pageSize,
+  });
+
+  const columns: AdvancedColumn<SeafarerRegistration>[] = useMemo(
+    () => [
+      {
+        header: 'Registration №',
+        accessorKey: 'registrationNumber',
+        cell: ({ row }) => (
+          <Text size="sm" ff="monospace">
+            {row.original.registrationNumber}
+          </Text>
+        ),
+      },
+      {
+        header: 'Applicant',
+        accessorKey: 'lastName',
+        cell: ({ row }) => (
+          <div>
+            <Text size="sm" fw={500}>
+              {applicantName(row.original)}
+            </Text>
+            <Text size="xs" c="dimmed">
+              {row.original.nationalIdNumber ?? '—'}
+            </Text>
+          </div>
+        ),
+      },
+      {
+        header: 'Department',
+        accessorKey: 'department',
+        cell: ({ row }) => <Text size="sm">{displaySeafarerAnswer('department', row.original.department)}</Text>,
+      },
+      {
+        header: 'Submitted',
+        accessorKey: 'submittedAt',
+        cell: ({ row }) => (
+          <Text size="sm">{row.original.submittedAt ? showDate(row.original.submittedAt) : '—'}</Text>
+        ),
+      },
+      {
+        header: 'Status',
+        accessorKey: 'status',
+        cell: ({ row }) => (
+          <Badge size="sm" variant="light" color={SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_COLORS[row.original.status]}>
+            {SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_LABELS[row.original.status]}
+          </Badge>
+        ),
+      },
+    ],
+    [showDate],
+  );
+
+  return (
+    <Container size="xl" py="md">
+      <Title order={3} mb={4}>
+        Seafarer Registration Queue
+      </Title>
+      <Text size="sm" c="dimmed" mb="md">
+        Registrations awaiting review. Approval numbers the seafarer and opens their Seaman Book and
+        BTC applications.
+      </Text>
+      <Group mb="md" gap="sm">
+        <TextInput
+          placeholder="Search number, name or ID…"
+          leftSection={<IconSearch size={14} />}
+          value={search}
+          onChange={(e) => {
+            setSearch(e.currentTarget.value);
+            setPage(0);
+          }}
+          w={280}
+        />
+        <Select
+          placeholder="All statuses"
+          data={STATUS_FILTERS}
+          value={status}
+          onChange={(v) => {
+            setStatus(v as SeafarerRegistrationStatus | null);
+            setPage(0);
+          }}
+          clearable
+          w={220}
+        />
+      </Group>
+      <AdvancedTable
+        columns={columns}
+        data={data?.items ?? []}
+        tableName="Seafarer registrations"
+        itemCount={data?.total ?? 0}
+        pageIndex={page}
+        onPageChange={setPage}
+        pageSize={pageSize}
+        onPageSizeChange={(size) => {
+          setPageSize(size);
+          setPage(0);
+        }}
+        refresh={refetch}
+        isLoading={isLoading || isFetching}
+        emptyText="No registrations match."
+        onRowClick={(row) => navigate(`/seafarer-registrations/${row.id}`)}
+      />
+    </Container>
+  );
+}
+
+export default SeafarerRegistrationQueuePage;
--- a/apps/backoffice/src/app/features/seafarer-registration-review/pages/SeafarerRegistrationReviewPage.tsx
+++ b/apps/backoffice/src/app/features/seafarer-registration-review/pages/SeafarerRegistrationReviewPage.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,283 @@
+import { useState } from 'react';
+import { useNavigate, useParams } from 'react-router-dom';
+import {
+  Alert,
+  Badge,
+  Button,
+  Center,
+  Container,
+  Divider,
+  Group,
+  Loader,
+  Modal,
+  Paper,
+  Stack,
+  Table,
+  Text,
+  Textarea,
+  Title,
+} from '@mantine/core';
+import { IconAlertTriangle, IconArrowLeft, IconCheck, IconInfoCircle } from '@tabler/icons-react';
+import {
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENTS,
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_FIELD_LABELS,
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_SECTIONS,
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_COLORS,
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_LABELS,
+  displaySeafarerAnswer,
+  extractErrorMessage,
+  useApproveSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useClaimSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useGetSeafarerRegistrationReviewQuery,
+  useRejectSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useRequestSeafarerRegistrationChangesMutation,
+} from '@ema-platform/api';
+import { notify } from '@ema-platform/ui';
+import { LICENSE_PERMISSIONS, RequirePermission } from '@ema-platform/auth';
+import { useAppSelector } from '../../../store/hooks';
+import { applicantName } from './SeafarerRegistrationQueuePage';
+
+type Decision = 'approve' | 'reject' | 'changes';
+
+const DECISION_COPY: Record<Decision, { title: string; label: string; color: string; required: boolean }> = {
+  approve: { title: 'Approve registration', label: 'Remark (optional)', color: 'teal', required: false },
+  changes: { title: 'Request corrections', label: 'What must the applicant fix?', color: 'orange', required: true },
+  reject: { title: 'Reject registration', label: 'Reason (shown to the applicant)', color: 'red', required: true },
+};
+
+/** One registration: every answer, every upload, and the officer's actions. */
+export function SeafarerRegistrationReviewPage() {
+  const { id = '' } = useParams();
+  const navigate = useNavigate();
+  const me = useAppSelector((state) => state.auth.user);
+  const { data, isLoading, error } = useGetSeafarerRegistrationReviewQuery(id, { skip: !id });
+
+  const [claim, { isLoading: claiming }] = useClaimSeafarerRegistrationMutation();
+  const [approve, { isLoading: approving }] = useApproveSeafarerRegistrationMutation();
+  const [reject, { isLoading: rejecting }] = useRejectSeafarerRegistrationMutation();
+  const [requestChanges, { isLoading: requesting }] = useRequestSeafarerRegistrationChangesMutation();
+
+  const [decision, setDecision] = useState<Decision | null>(null);
+  const [text, setText] = useState('');
+
+  if (isLoading) {
+    return (
+      <Center h={300}>
+        <Loader />
+      </Center>
+    );
+  }
+  if (error || !data) {
+    return (
+      <Container size="md" py="xl">
+        <Alert color="red" icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />}>
+          {extractErrorMessage(error, 'Could not load this registration.')}
+        </Alert>
+      </Container>
+    );
+  }
+
+  const { registration, attachments } = data;
+  const mine = !registration.assignedOfficerId || registration.assignedOfficerId === me?.id;
+  const canDecide = registration.status === 'UNDER_REVIEW' && mine;
+  const busy = approving || rejecting || requesting;
+
+  async function run(action: () => Promise<unknown>, done: string) {
+    try {
+      await action();
+      notify.success(done);
+      setDecision(null);
+      setText('');
+    } catch (err) {
+      notify.error(extractErrorMessage(err, 'Could not record the decision'));
+    }
+  }
+
+  function confirmDecision() {
+    const remark = text.trim();
+    if (decision === 'approve') {
+      run(() => approve({ id, remark: remark || undefined }).unwrap(), 'Registration approved — seafarer numbered.');
+    } else if (decision === 'changes') {
+      run(() => requestChanges({ id, remark }).unwrap(), 'Sent back for corrections.');
+    } else if (decision === 'reject') {
+      run(() => reject({ id, reason: remark }).unwrap(), 'Registration rejected.');
+    }
+  }
+
+  const slots = SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENTS.filter(
+    (d) => d.required !== 'passport' || registration.passportNumber,
+  );
+
+  return (
+    <Container size="lg" py="md">
+      <Button variant="subtle" size="xs" leftSection={<IconArrowLeft size={14} />} onClick={() => navigate('/seafarer-registrations')} mb="xs">
+        Back to queue
+      </Button>
+      <Group justify="space-between" align="flex-start" mb="md">
+        <div>
+          <Title order={3}>{applicantName(registration)}</Title>
+          <Group gap="xs" mt={4}>
+            <Text size="sm" c="dimmed" ff="monospace">
+              {registration.registrationNumber}
+            </Text>
+            <Badge size="sm" variant="light" color={SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_COLORS[registration.status]}>
+              {SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_LABELS[registration.status]}
+            </Badge>
+            {registration.seafarerNumber && (
+              <Badge size="sm" color="teal" leftSection={<IconCheck size={10} />}>
+                {registration.seafarerNumber}
+              </Badge>
+            )}
+          </Group>
+        </div>
+        <Group gap="xs">
+          {registration.status === 'SUBMITTED' && (
+            <RequirePermission anyOf={[LICENSE_PERMISSIONS.CLAIM_APPLICATION]} hideOnly>
+              <Button loading={claiming} onClick={() => run(() => claim(id).unwrap(), 'Claimed — it is yours to review.')}>
+                Claim
+              </Button>
+            </RequirePermission>
+          )}
+          {canDecide && (
+            <>
+              <RequirePermission anyOf={[LICENSE_PERMISSIONS.REQUEST_ADJUSTMENT]} hideOnly>
+                <Button variant="default" onClick={() => setDecision('changes')}>
+                  Request corrections
+                </Button>
+              </RequirePermission>
+              <RequirePermission anyOf={[LICENSE_PERMISSIONS.REJECT_APPLICATION]} hideOnly>
+                <Button color="red" variant="light" onClick={() => setDecision('reject')}>
+                  Reject
+                </Button>
+              </RequirePermission>
+              <RequirePermission anyOf={[LICENSE_PERMISSIONS.APPROVE_APPLICATION]} hideOnly>
+                <Button color="teal" onClick={() => setDecision('approve')}>
+                  Approve
+                </Button>
+              </RequirePermission>
+            </>
+          )}
+        </Group>
+      </Group>
+
+      {registration.status === 'UNDER_REVIEW' && !mine && (
+        <Alert color="gray" icon={<IconInfoCircle size={16} />} mb="md">
+          Assigned to another officer — only they can decide it.
+        </Alert>
+      )}
+      {registration.status === 'RESUBMIT_REQUIRED' && (
+        <Alert color="orange" icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />} title="Awaiting the applicant's corrections" mb="md">
+          {registration.reviewRemark}
+        </Alert>
+      )}
+      {registration.status === 'REJECTED' && (
+        <Alert color="red" icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />} title="Rejected" mb="md">
+          {registration.rejectionReason}
+        </Alert>
+      )}
+
+      <Paper withBorder p="lg" radius="md">
+        <Stack gap="md">
+          {SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_SECTIONS.map((section) => (
+            <div key={section.key}>
+              <Text fw={600} size="sm" mb={4}>
+                {section.title}
+              </Text>
+              <Table withTableBorder withColumnBorders>
+                <Table.Tbody>
+                  {section.fields
+                    .filter((f) => f !== 'passportExpiry' || registration.passportNumber)
+                    .map((field) => (
+                      <Table.Tr key={field}>
+                        <Table.Td w="40%">
+                          <Text size="xs" c="dimmed">
+                            {SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_FIELD_LABELS[field]}
+                          </Text>
+                        </Table.Td>
+                        <Table.Td>
+                          <Text size="sm">{displaySeafarerAnswer(field, registration[field])}</Text>
+                        </Table.Td>
+                      </Table.Tr>
+                    ))}
+                </Table.Tbody>
+              </Table>
+            </div>
+          ))}
+
+          <Divider />
+          <Text fw={600} size="sm" mb={4}>
+            Documents
+          </Text>
+          <Table withTableBorder withColumnBorders>
+            <Table.Tbody>
+              {slots.map((slot) => {
+                const file = attachments.find((a) => a.documentKey === slot.key)?.files?.[0];
+                const required = slot.required === 'passport' ? true : slot.required;
+                return (
+                  <Table.Tr key={slot.key}>
+                    <Table.Td w="40%">
+                      <Text size="xs" c="dimmed">
+                        {slot.name}
+                      </Text>
+                    </Table.Td>
+                    <Table.Td>
+                      {file ? (
+                        <Group gap="xs">
+                          <Text size="sm">{file.originalName}</Text>
+                          {file.url && (
+                            <Button size="compact-xs" variant="light" component="a" href={file.url} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+                              View
+                            </Button>
+                          )}
+                        </Group>
+                      ) : (
+                        <Text size="sm" c={required ? 'red' : 'dimmed'}>
+                          {required ? 'Missing' : '—'}
+                        </Text>
+                      )}
+                    </Table.Td>
+                  </Table.Tr>
+                );
+              })}
+            </Table.Tbody>
+          </Table>
+        </Stack>
+      </Paper>
+
+      <Modal
+        opened={decision !== null}
+        onClose={() => setDecision(null)}
+        title={decision ? DECISION_COPY[decision].title : ''}
+        centered
+      >
+        {decision && (
+          <Stack>
+            <Textarea
+              label={DECISION_COPY[decision].label}
+              required={DECISION_COPY[decision].required}
+              minRows={3}
+              value={text}
+              onChange={(e) => setText(e.currentTarget.value)}
+              data-autofocus
+            />
+            <Group justify="flex-end">
+              <Button variant="default" onClick={() => setDecision(null)}>
+                Cancel
+              </Button>
+              <Button
+                color={DECISION_COPY[decision].color}
+                loading={busy}
+                disabled={DECISION_COPY[decision].required && text.trim().length < 3}
+                onClick={confirmDecision}
+              >
+                Confirm
+              </Button>
+            </Group>
+          </Stack>
+        )}
+      </Modal>
+    </Container>
+  );
+}
+
+export default SeafarerRegistrationReviewPage;
--- a/apps/backoffice/src/app/layouts/nav-config.ts
+++ b/apps/backoffice/src/app/layouts/nav-config.ts
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ export const NAV_SECTIONS: NavSection[] = [
    label: 'nav.groupSeafarer',
    items: [
      { to: '/seafarer-registry', label: 'nav.seafarerRegistry', icon: IconUsers, permissions: [P.VIEW_SEAFARER_REGISTRY] },
-      { to: '/licence-review/type/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION', label: 'nav.seafarerRegistrationQueue', icon: IconId, permissions: APPLICATION_QUEUE },
+      { to: '/seafarer-registrations', label: 'nav.seafarerRegistrationQueue', icon: IconId, permissions: APPLICATION_QUEUE },
      { to: '/licence-review/type/CERTIFICATE_OF_COMPETENCY', label: 'nav.cocQueue', icon: IconShieldCheck, permissions: APPLICATION_QUEUE },
      { to: '/licence-review/type/CERTIFICATE_OF_PROFICIENCY', label: 'nav.copQueue', icon: IconShieldCheck, permissions: APPLICATION_QUEUE },
      { to: '/licence-review/type/SEAMAN_BOOK', label: 'nav.seamanBookQueue', icon: IconBook2, permissions: APPLICATION_QUEUE },
--- a/apps/backoffice/src/app/router/index.tsx
+++ b/apps/backoffice/src/app/router/index.tsx
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ import { ApplicationReviewPage } from '../features/applications/pages/Applicatio
 import { MedicalVerificationPage } from '../features/medical-verification/pages/MedicalVerificationPage';
 import { PaymentConfigPage } from '../features/payment-config/pages/PaymentConfigPage';
 import { SeafarerRegistryPage } from '../features/seafarer-registry/pages/SeafarerRegistryPage';
+import { SeafarerRegistrationQueuePage } from '../features/seafarer-registration-review/pages/SeafarerRegistrationQueuePage';
+import { SeafarerRegistrationReviewPage } from '../features/seafarer-registration-review/pages/SeafarerRegistrationReviewPage';
 import { SeamanBookQueuePage } from '../features/seaman-book-queue/pages/SeamanBookQueuePage';
 import { QuestionPage } from '../features/question/pages/QuestionPage';
 import { ExamPage } from '../features/exam/pages/ExamPage';
@@ -86,6 +88,10 @@ const router = createBrowserRouter([
          { path: 'medical-verification', element: guard([P.VERIFY_SEAFARER_RECORDS], <MedicalVerificationPage />) },
          { path: 'payment-config', element: guard([P.VIEW_PAYMENTS], <PaymentConfigPage />) },
          { path: 'seafarer-registry', element: guard([P.VIEW_SEAFARER_REGISTRY], <SeafarerRegistryPage />) },
+          // Seafarer registration is not a licence: own queue, own review.
+          { path: 'seafarer-registrations', element: guard(APPLICATION_QUEUE, <SeafarerRegistrationQueuePage />) },
+          { path: 'seafarer-registrations/:id', element: guard(APPLICATION_QUEUE, <SeafarerRegistrationReviewPage />) },
+          { path: 'licence-review/type/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION', element: <Navigate to="/seafarer-registrations" replace /> },
          { path: 'seaman-book-queue', element: guard(APPLICATION_QUEUE, <SeamanBookQueuePage />) },
          { path: 'questions', element: guard([P.APPROVE_QUESTION, P.AUTHOR_QUESTION], <QuestionPage />) },
          { path: 'exams', element: guard([P.MANAGE_EXAMS, P.RECORD_EXAM_ATTENDANCE, P.MANAGE_EXAM_INCIDENTS, P.PUBLISH_EXAM_RESULT], <ExamPage />) },
--- a/apps/e2e/src/seafarer-registration.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/e2e/src/seafarer-registration.spec.ts
@@ -6,50 +6,31 @@ import {
  verifyOtpIfPrompted,
 } from './support/applicant';
 import { deleteApplicant, sql, sqlValue } from './support/db';
-import {
-  approveRegistration,
-  resolveOpenRemarks,
-  runWorkflow,
-} from './support/workflow';
+import { approveRegistration, runRegistrationWorkflow } from './support/workflow';
+import { act, logInAsOfficer, openInQueue } from './support/officer';

 /**
 * Seafarer registration, applicant through to approval.
 *
- * The registration is the one service whose approval has consequences beyond
- * its own row: it stamps a permanent number on the profile, activates the
- * seafarer record, and opens the Seaman Book and BTC applications on the
- * applicant's behalf. Those effects only fire at final approval, so nothing
- * short of driving a registration into an officer's hands exercises them.
- *
- * The workflow is deliberately shorter than a licence's — no evaluation stage,
- * no inspection — so which actions an officer is *refused* is as much the
- * subject here as which ones work.
+ * Registration is its own table and its own endpoints — not a licence
+ * application. Approval is the one step with consequences beyond its row: it
+ * stamps a permanent number on the profile, activates the seafarer record,
+ * records the medical certificate, and opens the Seaman Book and BTC
+ * applications on the applicant's behalf. Those effects only fire at approval,
+ * so nothing short of driving a registration into an officer's hands
+ * exercises them.
 */

 /**
- * Fills the profile the seafarer wizard prefills its Identity Details step
- * from.
- *
- * No longer a precondition for reaching the wizard — that redirect is gone and
- * the step collects these itself — but a populated profile is the returning
- * applicant's case, and it is the prefill that keeps them from retyping.
- *
- * They are split across two tabs, and every tab's panel is in the DOM whether
- * or not it is showing — so each one has to be selected before its inputs can
- * be filled, and `PROFILE_FIELD_SECTION` in the auth lib is the map of which
- * field lives where.
+ * Fills the profile the registration form prefills its Identity Details step
+ * from. Not a precondition — the step collects these itself — but a populated
+ * profile is the returning applicant's case, and it is the prefill that keeps
+ * them from retyping.
 */
-async function completeProfile(
-  page: Page,
-  applicant: Applicant,
-): Promise<void> {
+async function completeProfile(page: Page, applicant: Applicant): Promise<void> {
  await page.goto('/profile');

  await openTab(page, 'Profile');
-  // The account's own name parts, not invented ones: the Maritime tab refuses
-  // to save when they do not join to the name on the Personal tab, and it
-  // refuses by returning early — no request, no field error, so the failure
-  // surfaced only as "save produced no request".
  await page.getByLabel('First Name').fill(applicant.firstName);
  await page.getByLabel('Middle Name').fill(applicant.middleName);
  await page.getByLabel('Last Name').fill(applicant.lastName);
@@ -60,88 +41,42 @@ async function completeProfile(
  await save(page);

  await openTab(page, 'Address');
-  // Matched on the option's label, not its stored value: the select shows
-  // "National Id" and submits `NID`, so `/^NID$/` matched no option at all.
  await pick(page, 'ID Type', /^national id$/i);
  await page.getByLabel('ID Number').fill('FYD1234567890');
-  // A country select, not a free-text field.
  await pick(page, 'Nationality', /ethiopia/i);
-  // Primary Phone is deliberately not filled: it is `readOnly` here and already
-  // carries the account's number ("From your account, edit it in the Personal
-  // tab"), so `addressSchema`'s Ethiopian-format rule is already satisfied and a
-  // fill would only fail against a read-only input.
  await save(page);
 }

-/** Selects a profile tab and waits for its panel to be the visible one. */
 async function openTab(page: Page, name: string): Promise<void> {
  await page.getByRole('tab', { name, exact: true }).click();
-  await expect(page.getByRole('tabpanel', { name })).toBeVisible({
-    timeout: 15_000,
-  });
+  await expect(page.getByRole('tabpanel', { name })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
 }

-/**
- * Picks a value from a Mantine select.
- *
- * The label is bound to both the input and the listbox it opens, so matching
- * by label alone is ambiguous once the dropdown is showing — the textbox role
- * names the control itself.
- */
 async function pick(page: Page, label: string, option: RegExp): Promise<void> {
  await page.getByRole('textbox', { name: label }).click();
  await page.getByRole('option', { name: option }).first().click();
 }

-/**
- * Sets the date of birth through the picker's own UI.
- *
- * `AmharicDatePicker` is a controlled component: it reports changes through
- * `onChange`, which is what writes the value into react-hook-form. Setting the
- * input's `value` natively bypasses that entirely — the field stays empty as
- * far as zod is concerned, and the form silently refuses to submit.
- *
- * So the calendar is actually driven: open it, pick the year and month from
- * the caption dropdowns, then click the day.
- */
+/** Drives the AmharicDatePicker's own UI — a native `value` write bypasses `onChange`. */
 async function pickDate(page: Page, label: string, iso: string): Promise<void> {
  const [year, month, day] = iso.split('-').map(Number);
-
  await page.getByRole('textbox', { name: label }).click();
  const calendar = page.locator('.amharic-daypicker-dropdown');
  await expect(calendar).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
-
-  // `captionLayout="dropdown"` renders native selects for month and year.
  await calendar.locator('select').last().selectOption(String(year));
-  await calendar
-    .locator('select')
-    .first()
-    .selectOption({ index: month - 1 });
-
-  // Each day is a button whose accessible name is the full date
-  // ("Saturday, April 1st, 1995"), not the bare number — matching on the
-  // number alone finds nothing. Anchored on the ordinal so 1 cannot match 11
-  // or 21. Resolved after the dropdowns settle, since changing year or month
-  // re-renders the grid.
+  await calendar.locator('select').first().selectOption({ index: month - 1 });
  const cell = calendar
    .getByRole('button', { name: new RegExp(`\\b${day}(st|nd|rd|th),`) })
    .first();
  await expect(cell).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
  await cell.click();
-
  await expect(calendar).toBeHidden({ timeout: 10_000 });
-
-  // The picker writes through `onChange`; if that did not land, zod still sees
-  // an empty field and the failure would surface later as a refused submit.
  await expect(page.getByRole('textbox', { name: label })).not.toHaveValue('', {
    timeout: 10_000,
  });
 }

 async function save(page: Page): Promise<void> {
-  // Matched loosely on purpose: the personal tab PATCHes a user, the profile
-  // tab a profile, and the address tab POSTs to `/addresss/profile/:id` — the
-  // route's own spelling. Any successful write from this screen is the signal.
  const saved = page.waitForResponse(
    (r) =>
      r.request().method() !== 'GET' &&
@@ -150,42 +85,20 @@ async function save(page: Page): Promise<void> {
    { timeout: 20_000 },
  );
  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /save/i }).first().click();
-
  try {
    await saved;
  } catch (cause) {
-    // A zod-blocked submit fires no request at all, so the bare timeout says
-    // only "no response" — which reads as a backend fault rather than a form
-    // that refused to submit. Surface the field errors instead.
-    // Field errors only. `[role="alert"]` also matches Mantine's `<Alert>`, and
-    // the profile page renders an informational seafarer banner as one — which
-    // got reported as "validation errors: Seafarer registration asks for these
-    // details…", pointing at a form that was in fact filled in correctly.
-    const messages = await page
-      .locator('.mantine-InputWrapper-error')
-      .allTextContents();
+    const messages = await page.locator('.mantine-InputWrapper-error').allTextContents();
    throw new Error(
      messages.length
        ? `Save did not submit — validation errors: ${messages.join('; ')}`
-        : // No field error either, so the form was valid and something else
-          // refused: `onSaveProfile` early-returns when the profile name does
-          // not match the account name, and notifies rather than marking a
-          // field.
-          'Save produced no request and reported no field error — check for a rejected notification (e.g. the profile/account name match).',
+        : 'Save produced no request and reported no field error.',
      { cause },
    );
  }
 }

-/**
- * Signs up, declares seafarer operations, and fills the profile.
- *
- * Declaring seafarer now lands on the registration wizard, not `/profile` — the
- * wizard collects the identity itself. The profile is still filled here because
- * these tests are about the registration workflow, and a profile with a name and
- * an address is what the approval's completion effect writes onto; `/profile` is
- * navigated to directly rather than waited for as a redirect.
- */
+/** Signs up, declares seafarer operations, and fills the profile. */
 async function readyApplicant(page: Page, applicant: Applicant): Promise<void> {
  const offset = await signUp(page, applicant);
  await verifyOtpIfPrompted(page, offset);
@@ -195,11 +108,8 @@ async function readyApplicant(page: Page, applicant: Applicant): Promise<void> {
    .first()
    .check();
  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /save operations/i }).click();
-  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/licensing\/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION\/apply/, {
-    timeout: 30_000,
-  });
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/seafarer-registration/, { timeout: 30_000 });
  await page.goto('/profile');
-  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/profile/, { timeout: 30_000 });
  await completeProfile(page, applicant);
 }

@@ -214,7 +124,7 @@ test.describe('seafarer registration', () => {
    deleteApplicant(applicant.email);
  });

-  test('selecting seafarer opens the registration wizard', async ({ page }) => {
+  test('selecting seafarer opens the registration form', async ({ page }) => {
    const offset = await signUp(page, applicant);
    await verifyOtpIfPrompted(page, offset);
    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/onboarding\/operations/, { timeout: 30_000 });
@@ -224,215 +134,256 @@ test.describe('seafarer registration', () => {
      .check();
    await page.getByRole('button', { name: /save operations/i }).click();

-    // Straight to the form they came for. The wizard collects the identity
-    // itself (Identity Details), so a brand-new account with an empty profile
-    // is a thing it fills rather than a reason to be sent to /profile first.
-    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/licensing\/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION\/apply/, {
-      timeout: 30_000,
-    });
+    // Straight to the form they came for — its own page, not the licence wizard.
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/seafarer-registration$/, { timeout: 30_000 });
+    await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: /seafarer registration/i })).toBeVisible();

-    // The short link lands in the same place.
-    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
-    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/licensing\/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION\/apply/, {
-      timeout: 30_000,
-    });
+    // The old licence-wizard link lands in the same place.
+    await page.goto('/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply');
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/seafarer-registration$/, { timeout: 30_000 });
  });

-  test('opening the wizard creates the draft up front', async ({ page }) => {
+  test('opening the form creates the draft up front', async ({ page }) => {
    await readyApplicant(page, applicant);
-
-    await page.goto('/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply');
-    await expect(page).not.toHaveURL(/\/profile/, { timeout: 30_000 });
+    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');

    // The draft exists before anything is filled in, so uploads have an owner
-    // and closing the browser mid-wizard loses nothing.
-    const number = await waitForApplication(applicant.email);
+    // and closing the browser mid-form loses nothing.
+    const number = await waitForRegistration(applicant.email);
    expect(number).toMatch(/^SFR/);
    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('DRAFT');
+
+    // Prefilled from the profile the applicant just completed.
+    await expect(page.getByLabel('First Name')).toHaveValue(applicant.firstName);
  });

-  test('a registration never reaches evaluation or inspection', async ({
-    page,
-  }) => {
+  test('an incomplete registration is refused with what is missing', async ({ page }) => {
    await readyApplicant(page, applicant);
-    await page.goto('/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply');
-    const number = await waitForApplication(applicant.email);
-    const id = idOf(number);
+    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
+    const id = idOf(await waitForRegistration(applicant.email));

-    await submit(id, applicant);
-    await runWorkflow(id, [{ path: 'claim' }]);
-    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('UNDER_REVIEW');
-
-    // The licence course's middle stages have nothing to hold in a
-    // registration, and the transition table is the authority regardless of
-    // which endpoint is called.
-    const refused = await runWorkflow(id, [
-      { path: 'complete-review', expectFailure: true },
-      { path: 'approve-documents', expectFailure: true },
-      { path: 'record-inspection', expectFailure: true },
-    ]);
-    expect(refused.every((code) => code >= 400)).toBe(true);
-    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('UNDER_REVIEW');
+    const [code] = await runRegistrationWorkflow(
+      id,
+      [{ path: 'submit', expectFailure: true }],
+      applicant,
+    );
+    expect(code).toBe(400);
  });

  test('an officer can return a registration for correction and take it back', async ({
    page,
  }) => {
    await readyApplicant(page, applicant);
-    await page.goto('/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply');
-    const number = await waitForApplication(applicant.email);
+    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
+    const number = await waitForRegistration(applicant.email);
    const id = idOf(number);

    await submit(id, applicant);
-    await runWorkflow(id, [
+    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('SUBMITTED');
+
+    await runRegistrationWorkflow(id, [
      { path: 'claim' },
-      {
-        path: 'request-adjustment',
-        // `RequestAdjustmentDto` takes `items`, each naming what to fix and
-        // where — a bare `remarks: [{ message }]` is refused with "items should
-        // not be empty", which reads as an empty request rather than a wrongly
-        // shaped one.
-        data: {
-          items: [
-            {
-              targetType: 'FORM_SECTION',
-              targetKey: 'medicalCertificate',
-              remark: 'Medical certificate is illegible.',
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-      },
+      { path: 'request-changes', data: { remark: 'Medical certificate is illegible.' } },
    ]);
    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('RESUBMIT_REQUIRED');

-    // Every flagged item has to be ticked off first: `resubmit` refuses while
-    // any remark is open (`unresolved_remarks`), which is what stops an
-    // applicant returning the same form untouched.
-    await resolveOpenRemarks(id, openRemarkIds(number), applicant);
-
-    // A resubmission returns to review directly — a registration has no
-    // earlier stage to fall back to.
-    await runWorkflow(id, [{ path: 'resubmit' }], applicant);
-    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('UNDER_REVIEW');
-  });
-
-  test('an officer can hold and resume a registration', async ({ page }) => {
-    await readyApplicant(page, applicant);
-    await page.goto('/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply');
-    const number = await waitForApplication(applicant.email);
-    const id = idOf(number);
-
-    await submit(id, applicant);
-    await runWorkflow(id, [
-      { path: 'claim' },
-      { path: 'hold', data: { reason: 'Awaiting confirmation from the clinic.' } },
+    // Nothing can be decided while it is with the applicant.
+    const [refused] = await runRegistrationWorkflow(id, [
+      { path: 'approve', expectFailure: true },
    ]);
-    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('ON_HOLD');
+    expect(refused).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(400);

-    // Resume restores whatever it was held from, read back from history.
-    await runWorkflow(id, [{ path: 'resume' }]);
-    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('UNDER_REVIEW');
+    // A resubmission returns to the queue.
+    await runRegistrationWorkflow(id, [{ path: 'submit' }], applicant);
+    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('SUBMITTED');
  });

  test('an officer can reject a registration with a reason', async ({ page }) => {
    await readyApplicant(page, applicant);
-    await page.goto('/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply');
-    const number = await waitForApplication(applicant.email);
+    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
+    const number = await waitForRegistration(applicant.email);
    const id = idOf(number);

    await submit(id, applicant);
-    await runWorkflow(id, [
+    await runRegistrationWorkflow(id, [
      { path: 'claim' },
      { path: 'reject', data: { reason: 'Basic training evidence incomplete.' } },
    ]);

    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('REJECTED');
-    // A rejection is terminal: nothing is numbered, and the children submit
-    // opened stay drafts — never filed, never billed, nothing an officer sees.
+    // A rejection is terminal: nothing is numbered, nothing is opened.
    expect(seafarerNumberOf(applicant.email)).toBeNull();
-    expect(childrenOf(number).every((r) => r[1] === 'DRAFT')).toBe(true);
+    expect(childrenOf(applicant.email)).toHaveLength(0);
  });

  test('approval numbers the profile and opens both child applications', async ({
    page,
  }) => {
    await readyApplicant(page, applicant);
-    await page.goto('/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply');
-    const number = await waitForApplication(applicant.email);
+    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
+    const number = await waitForRegistration(applicant.email);
    const id = idOf(number);

    await submit(id, applicant);
    await approveRegistration(id);

-    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('COMPLETED');
+    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('APPROVED');

    const profile = sql(`
-      SELECT p.seafarer_number, p.seafarer_status
+      SELECT p.seafarer_number, p.seafarer_status, p.seafarer_department
      FROM profiles p
      JOIN iam.users u ON u.id = p.user_id
      WHERE u.email = '${applicant.email}'
    `);
    expect(profile[0][0]).toBeTruthy();
    expect(profile[0][1]).toBe('ACTIVE');
+    expect(profile[0][2]).toBe('DECK');
+
+    // The medical details become a verified certificate on the profile.
+    expect(
+      sqlValue(`
+        SELECT m.status FROM medical_certificates m
+        JOIN profiles p ON p.id = m.profile_id
+        JOIN iam.users u ON u.id = p.user_id
+        WHERE u.email = '${applicant.email}'
+      `),
+    ).toBe('VERIFIED');

    // The applicant is not made to apply twice more for the documents that
-    // prove what they have just been told. Both were opened as drafts when the
-    // registration was submitted; approval is what puts them in flight — the
-    // BTC straight to payment, the Seaman Book into the queue for the TRB
-    // inspection it still owes.
-    const children = childrenOf(number);
+    // prove what they have just been told: both are opened, straight to payment.
+    const children = childrenOf(applicant.email);
    expect(children.map((r) => [r[0], r[1]])).toEqual([
      ['BTC_BASIC_TRAINING', 'PAYMENT_PENDING'],
-      ['SEAMAN_BOOK', 'SUBMITTED'],
+      ['SEAMAN_BOOK', 'PAYMENT_PENDING'],
    ]);
    expect(children.every((r) => r[2] === 'AUTO_SEAFARER_APPROVAL')).toBe(true);
+
+    // The portal now shows the outcome rather than a form.
+    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
+    await expect(page.getByText(/you are a registered seafarer/i)).toBeVisible({
+      timeout: 30_000,
+    });
  });

  test('a re-fired approval renumbers nobody and opens no second pair', async ({
    page,
  }) => {
    await readyApplicant(page, applicant);
-    await page.goto('/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply');
-    const number = await waitForApplication(applicant.email);
+    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
+    const number = await waitForRegistration(applicant.email);
    const id = idOf(number);

    await submit(id, applicant);
    await approveRegistration(id);
    const first = seafarerNumberOf(applicant.email);

-    // Approving again must be a no-op, not a second number and a second bill.
-    await runWorkflow(id, [{ path: 'final-approve', expectFailure: true }]);
-
+    const [code] = await runRegistrationWorkflow(id, [
+      { path: 'approve', expectFailure: true },
+    ]);
+    expect(code).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(400);
    expect(seafarerNumberOf(applicant.email)).toBe(first);
-    expect(childrenOf(number)).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(childrenOf(applicant.email)).toHaveLength(2);
+  });
+
+  test('the form can be completed in the browser and approved from the backoffice', async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    await readyApplicant(page, applicant);
+    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
+    const number = await waitForRegistration(applicant.email);
+    const id = idOf(number);
+
+    // Uploads need object storage, which this suite does not stand up; the
+    // evidence rows go in directly and the page is reopened so it sees them.
+    insertDocuments(id);
+    await page.reload();
+
+    // Step 1 — Identity Details: prefilled from the profile, nothing to type.
+    await expect(page.getByLabel('First Name')).toHaveValue(applicant.firstName);
+    await expect(page.getByLabel('National ID (Fayda) Number')).toHaveValue('FYD1234567890');
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: /^continue$/i }).click();
+
+    // Step 2 — Applicant Details.
+    await page.getByLabel('Place of Birth').fill('Addis Ababa');
+    await pick(page, 'Department', /deck/i);
+    await pick(page, 'City', /addis ababa/i);
+    await pick(page, 'Sub-City', /arada/i);
+    await pick(page, 'Hair Colour', /black/i);
+    await pick(page, 'Eye Colour', /brown/i);
+    await page.getByLabel('Height (cm)').fill('172');
+    await page.getByLabel('Weight (kg)').fill('68');
+    await page.getByLabel('Certificate Number').fill('MED-2026-001');
+    await page.getByLabel('Issuing Clinic or Practitioner').fill('Addis Marine Clinic');
+    await pickDate(page, 'Issue Date', '2026-01-15');
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: /^continue$/i }).click();
+
+    // Step 3 — Emergency Contact.
+    await page.getByLabel('Full Name').fill('Almaz Tesfaye');
+    await page.getByLabel('Relationship').fill('Sister');
+    await page.getByLabel('Phone Number').fill('+251911222333');
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: /^continue$/i }).click();
+
+    // Step 4 — Documents: all four required slots show as uploaded.
+    await expect(page.getByText('uploaded')).toHaveCount(4);
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: /^continue$/i }).click();
+
+    // Step 5 — Review: the answers typed above, then the declaration.
+    await expect(page.getByText('Addis Marine Clinic')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.getByRole('checkbox', { name: /i declare/i }).check();
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: /submit registration/i }).click();
+    await expect(page.getByText(/submitted — still correctable/i)).toBeVisible({
+      timeout: 30_000,
+    });
+    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('SUBMITTED');
+
+    // What was typed is what was stored — typed columns, no form blob.
+    const stored = sql(`
+      SELECT place_of_birth, department, hair_color, height_cm, medical_issue_date,
+             emergency_contact_name
+      FROM seafarer_registrations WHERE id = '${id}'
+    `)[0];
+    expect(stored).toEqual([
+      'Addis Ababa', 'DECK', 'BLACK', '172.0', '2026-01-15', 'Almaz Tesfaye',
+    ]);
+
+    // The officer's side, through its own queue and review screen.
+    await logInAsOfficer(page);
+    await openInQueue(page, number);
+    await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: applicant.name })).toBeVisible({
+      timeout: 30_000,
+    });
+    await act(page, /^claim$/i);
+    await expect(page.getByText('Under Review')).toBeVisible();
+    await act(page, /^approve$/i, /^confirm$/i);
+    await expect(page.getByText('Approved', { exact: true })).toBeVisible({
+      timeout: 30_000,
+    });
+
+    expect(statusOf(number)).toBe('APPROVED');
+    expect(seafarerNumberOf(applicant.email)).toBeTruthy();
  });

  test('a registered seafarer cannot start a second registration', async ({
    page,
  }) => {
    await readyApplicant(page, applicant);
-    await page.goto('/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply');
-    const number = await waitForApplication(applicant.email);
+    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
+    const number = await waitForRegistration(applicant.email);

    await submit(idOf(number), applicant);
    await approveRegistration(idOf(number));

-    // The number is permanent and the service is not renewable, so the portal
-    // stops offering it rather than letting them file a second registration an
-    // officer would review for no outcome.
+    // "Start" returns the approved registration rather than opening another.
+    await runRegistrationWorkflow(idOf(number), [], applicant);
    await page.goto('/seafarer-registration');
-    await expect(page).not.toHaveURL(
-      /\/licensing\/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION\/apply/,
-      { timeout: 30_000 },
-    );
-
+    await expect(page.getByText(/you are a registered seafarer/i)).toBeVisible({
+      timeout: 30_000,
+    });
    expect(
      sqlValue(`
-        SELECT count(*) FROM license_applications a
-        JOIN license_types lt ON lt.id = a.license_type_id
-        JOIN iam.users u ON u.id = a.applicant_user_id
-        WHERE lt.key = 'SEAFARER_REGISTRATION'
-          AND u.email = '${applicant.email}'
+        SELECT count(*) FROM seafarer_registrations r
+        JOIN iam.users u ON u.id = r.applicant_user_id
+        WHERE u.email = '${applicant.email}'
      `),
    ).toBe('1');
  });
@@ -440,20 +391,16 @@ test.describe('seafarer registration', () => {

 // ------------------------------------------------------------------ helpers

-/** Waits for the draft the wizard creates on open, and returns its number. */
-async function waitForApplication(
-  email: string,
-  timeoutMs = 30_000,
-): Promise<string> {
+/** Waits for the draft the form creates on open, and returns its number. */
+async function waitForRegistration(email: string, timeoutMs = 30_000): Promise<string> {
  const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
  while (Date.now() < deadline) {
    const found = sqlValue(`
-      SELECT a.application_number
-      FROM license_applications a
-      JOIN license_types lt ON lt.id = a.license_type_id
-      JOIN iam.users u ON u.id = a.applicant_user_id
-      WHERE lt.key = 'SEAFARER_REGISTRATION' AND u.email = '${email}'
-      ORDER BY a.created_at DESC LIMIT 1
+      SELECT r.registration_number
+      FROM seafarer_registrations r
+      JOIN iam.users u ON u.id = r.applicant_user_id
+      WHERE u.email = '${email}'
+      ORDER BY r.created_at DESC LIMIT 1
    `);
    if (found) return found;
    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 500));
@@ -461,19 +408,19 @@ async function waitForApplication(
  throw new Error(`No seafarer registration appeared for ${email}`);
 }

-function idOf(applicationNumber: string): string {
+function idOf(registrationNumber: string): string {
  const id = sqlValue(`
-    SELECT id FROM license_applications
-    WHERE application_number = '${applicationNumber}'
+    SELECT id FROM seafarer_registrations
+    WHERE registration_number = '${registrationNumber}'
  `);
-  if (!id) throw new Error(`No application ${applicationNumber}`);
+  if (!id) throw new Error(`No registration ${registrationNumber}`);
  return id;
 }

-function statusOf(applicationNumber: string): string | null {
+function statusOf(registrationNumber: string): string | null {
  return sqlValue(`
-    SELECT status FROM license_applications
-    WHERE application_number = '${applicationNumber}'
+    SELECT status FROM seafarer_registrations
+    WHERE registration_number = '${registrationNumber}'
  `);
 }

@@ -485,26 +432,14 @@ function seafarerNumberOf(email: string): string | null {
  `);
 }

-/** Ids of the remarks still open on the current adjustment round. */
-function openRemarkIds(applicationNumber: string): string[] {
-  return sql(`
-    SELECT r.id FROM application_remarks r
-    JOIN license_applications a ON a.id = r.application_id
-    WHERE a.application_number = '${applicationNumber}'
-      AND r.is_resolved = false
-      AND r.round_number = a.adjustment_round
-  `).map((row) => row[0]);
-}
-
-function childrenOf(applicationNumber: string): string[][] {
+/** The licence applications approval opened for this applicant. */
+function childrenOf(email: string): string[][] {
  return sql(`
    SELECT lt.key, a.status, a.origin
    FROM license_applications a
    JOIN license_types lt ON lt.id = a.license_type_id
-    WHERE a.parent_application_id = (
-      SELECT id FROM license_applications
-      WHERE application_number = '${applicationNumber}'
-    )
+    JOIN iam.users u ON u.id = a.applicant_user_id
+    WHERE u.email = '${email}' AND a.origin = 'AUTO_SEAFARER_APPROVAL'
    ORDER BY lt.key
  `);
 }
@@ -512,22 +447,17 @@ function childrenOf(applicationNumber: string): string[][] {
 /**
 * Fills the draft's answers and evidence directly, so it can be submitted.
 *
- * These tests are about the workflow and its approval effects, not the wizard's
- * fields — but `submit` validates the whole form and every required document, so
- * an unfilled draft cannot reach the workflow at all. Driving six wizard steps
- * and four uploads in each test would make them slow tests of the form instead.
- *
- * So the answers go in as one `form_data` write and the evidence as attachment
- * rows. Deliberately not through MinIO: `getSuppliedDocumentKeys` joins
- * attachments to their files and counts document keys, and nothing at submission
- * reads a file's bytes — a row with a storage key is exactly as complete as an
- * upload, without requiring object storage to be reachable.
- *
- * Values mirror the seeded schema (`seafarer-registration.seed-data.ts`); a
- * required field added there fails these with `application_incomplete`, naming
- * the field.
+ * These tests are about the workflow and its approval effects, not the form's
+ * fields. The answers go in as one UPDATE and the evidence as attachment rows
+ * — a row with a storage key is exactly as complete as an upload to the
+ * submission check, without requiring object storage to be reachable.
 */
-function fillForSubmission(applicationId: string): void {
+function fillForSubmission(registrationId: string): void {
+  fillAnswers(registrationId);
+  insertDocuments(registrationId);
+}
+
+function fillAnswers(registrationId: string): void {
  const locationId = sqlValue(`
    SELECT l.id FROM iam.locations l
    JOIN iam.location_types lt ON lt.id = l.location_type_id
@@ -537,54 +467,30 @@ function fillForSubmission(applicationId: string): void {
    throw new Error('No SUBCITY location seeded — run the location seed.');
  }

-  const formData = JSON.stringify({
-    profileSummary: {
-      firstName: 'Dawit',
-      middleName: 'Bekele',
-      lastName: 'Tesfaye',
-      gender: 'MALE',
-      dateOfBirth: '1995-04-12',
-      maritalStatus: 'SINGLE',
-      nationality: 'Ethiopian',
-      nationalIdNumber: 'FYD1234567890',
-    },
-    identity: { placeOfBirth: 'Addis Ababa', department: 'DECK' },
-    address: { locationId, permanentAddress: 'Bole, Addis Ababa' },
-    emergencyContact: {
-      name: 'Almaz Tesfaye',
-      relationship: 'Sister',
-      phoneNumber: '+251911222333',
-    },
-    physicalCharacteristics: {
-      hairColor: 'BLACK',
-      eyeColor: 'BROWN',
-      heightCm: 172,
-      weightKg: 68,
-      bloodType: 'O_POSITIVE',
-    },
-    medicalCertificate: {
-      certificateNumber: 'MED-2026-001',
-      issuerName: 'Addis Marine Clinic',
-      issueDate: '2026-01-15',
-    },
-    declaration: { accepted: true },
-  }).replace(/'/g, "''");
-
-  const documentKeys = [
-    'photo',
-    'nationalId',
-    'medical_certificate',
-    'basic_training_evidence',
-  ];
-
  sql(`
-    UPDATE license_applications
-       SET form_data = '${formData}'::jsonb
-     WHERE id = '${applicationId}';
+    UPDATE seafarer_registrations SET
+      first_name = 'Dawit', middle_name = 'Bekele', last_name = 'Tesfaye',
+      gender = 'MALE', date_of_birth = '1995-04-12', marital_status = 'SINGLE',
+      nationality = 'Ethiopian', national_id_number = 'FYD1234567890',
+      place_of_birth = 'Addis Ababa', department = 'DECK',
+      location_id = '${locationId}', permanent_address = 'Bole, Addis Ababa',
+      emergency_contact_name = 'Almaz Tesfaye', emergency_contact_relationship = 'Sister',
+      emergency_contact_phone = '+251911222333',
+      hair_color = 'BLACK', eye_color = 'BROWN', height_cm = 172, weight_kg = 68,
+      blood_type = 'O_POSITIVE',
+      medical_certificate_number = 'MED-2026-001', medical_issuer_name = 'Addis Marine Clinic',
+      medical_issue_date = '2026-01-15', declaration_accepted = true
+    WHERE id = '${registrationId}';
+  `);
+}

+/** The four required evidence rows, as attachment rows with a storage key. */
+function insertDocuments(registrationId: string): void {
+  const documentKeys = ['photo', 'nationalId', 'medical_certificate', 'basic_training_evidence'];
+  sql(`
    WITH inserted AS (
      INSERT INTO attachments (owner_type, owner_id, document_key, valid_from, valid_to)
-      SELECT 'APPLICATION', '${applicationId}', key, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_DATE + 365
+      SELECT 'SEAFARER_REGISTRATION', '${registrationId}', key, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_DATE + 365
        FROM unnest(ARRAY[${documentKeys.map((d) => `'${d}'`).join(',')}]) AS key
      RETURNING id
    )
@@ -596,12 +502,7 @@ function fillForSubmission(applicationId: string): void {
 }

 /** Fills what submission requires, then submits as the applicant. */
-async function submit(
-  applicationId: string,
-  applicant: Applicant,
-): Promise<void> {
-  fillForSubmission(applicationId);
-  // As the applicant: `submit` is ownership-guarded, so the officer's token —
-  // which every other step here uses — is refused with `not_application_owner`.
-  await runWorkflow(applicationId, [{ path: 'submit' }], applicant);
+async function submit(registrationId: string, applicant: Applicant): Promise<void> {
+  fillForSubmission(registrationId);
+  await runRegistrationWorkflow(registrationId, [{ path: 'submit' }], applicant);
 }
--- a/apps/e2e/src/support/applicant.ts
+++ b/apps/e2e/src/support/applicant.ts
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ export function newApplicant(label: string): Applicant {
 export async function signUp(page: Page, applicant: Applicant): Promise<number> {
  await page.goto('/signup');

-  await page.getByLabel('Name (English)').fill(applicant.name);
+  // Signup collects the name in parts now; `applicant.name` is what they join to.
+  await page.getByLabel('First name').fill(applicant.firstName);
+  await page.getByLabel('Middle name').fill(applicant.middleName);
+  await page.getByLabel('Last name').fill(applicant.lastName);
  await page.getByLabel('Email address').fill(applicant.email);
  await page.getByLabel('Username').fill(applicant.username);
  await page.getByLabel('Phone number').fill(applicant.phoneNumber);
--- a/apps/e2e/src/support/db.ts
+++ b/apps/e2e/src/support/db.ts
@@ -103,6 +103,13 @@ export function deleteApplicant(email: string): void {
  if (!userId) return;

  sql(`
+    DELETE FROM attachment_files WHERE attachment_id IN (
+      SELECT id FROM attachments WHERE owner_type = 'SEAFARER_REGISTRATION'
+        AND owner_id IN (SELECT id FROM seafarer_registrations WHERE applicant_user_id = '${userId}')
+    );
+    DELETE FROM attachments WHERE owner_type = 'SEAFARER_REGISTRATION'
+      AND owner_id IN (SELECT id FROM seafarer_registrations WHERE applicant_user_id = '${userId}');
+    DELETE FROM seafarer_registrations WHERE applicant_user_id = '${userId}';
    DELETE FROM licenses WHERE holder_user_id = '${userId}';
    DELETE FROM license_applications WHERE applicant_user_id = '${userId}';
    DELETE FROM profile_operator_types
--- a/apps/e2e/src/support/officer.ts
+++ b/apps/e2e/src/support/officer.ts
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ export async function openInQueue(
  page: Page,
  applicationNumber: string,
 ): Promise<void> {
-  await page.goto(`${E2E.backofficeUrl}/licence-review/type/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION`);
+  await page.goto(`${E2E.backofficeUrl}/seafarer-registrations`);
+  // Oldest first and paged, so the newest registration is rarely on page one.
+  await page.getByPlaceholder(/search/i).fill(applicationNumber);
  const row = page.getByRole('row', { name: new RegExp(applicationNumber, 'i') });
  await expect(row).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
  await row.click();
--- a/apps/e2e/src/support/workflow.ts
+++ b/apps/e2e/src/support/workflow.ts
@@ -155,10 +155,53 @@ export async function runWorkflow(
  return codes;
 }

-/** Claim then final-approve — the whole officer path for a registration. */
-export async function approveRegistration(applicationId: string): Promise<void> {
-  await runWorkflow(applicationId, [
+/**
+ * The standalone seafarer-registration endpoints — its own controller pair,
+ * not the licence ones above. `submit` is the applicant's; everything else
+ * is the officer's.
+ */
+export async function runRegistrationWorkflow(
+  registrationId: string,
+  steps: WorkflowStep[],
+  applicant?: { email: string; password: string },
+): Promise<number[]> {
+  const officer = await officerContext();
+  const needsApplicant = steps.some((step) => step.path === 'submit');
+  if (needsApplicant && !applicant) {
+    throw new Error('`submit` acts as the applicant — pass their credentials.');
+  }
+  const owner = needsApplicant && applicant
+    ? await contextFor('Applicant', applicant)
+    : null;
+  const codes: number[] = [];
+  try {
+    for (const step of steps) {
+      const isApplicantStep = step.path === 'submit';
+      const base = isApplicantStep
+        ? 'seafarer-registrations'
+        : 'seafarer-registration-review';
+      const api = isApplicantStep && owner ? owner : officer;
+      const response = await api.post(`${base}/${registrationId}/${step.path}`, {
+        data: step.data ?? {},
+      });
+      codes.push(response.status());
+      if (!step.expectFailure && !response.ok()) {
+        throw new Error(
+          `Step "${step.path}" failed (${response.status()}): ${await response.text()}`,
+        );
+      }
+    }
+  } finally {
+    await officer.dispose();
+    await owner?.dispose();
+  }
+  return codes;
+}
+
+/** Claim then approve — the whole officer path for a registration. */
+export async function approveRegistration(registrationId: string): Promise<void> {
+  await runRegistrationWorkflow(registrationId, [
    { path: 'claim' },
-    { path: 'final-approve', data: { remark: 'E2E approval' } },
+    { path: 'approve', data: { remark: 'E2E approval' } },
  ]);
 }
--- a/apps/portal/src/app/features/onboarding/pages/OperationsOnboardingPage.tsx
+++ b/apps/portal/src/app/features/onboarding/pages/OperationsOnboardingPage.tsx
@@ -7,14 +7,12 @@ import { OperationsFormContent } from '../../profile/components/OperationsFormCo
 * "I own a vessel" or "I am a seafarer" came here to register, so they are
 * taken straight to that form instead of a dashboard that only links to it.
 *
- * Seafarer used to detour via `/profile` because the wizard refused to open
- * without a complete one. It no longer does — the Identity Details step
- * collects those answers itself (`RequireSeafarerProfile`) — so the detour was
- * only an extra screen between a new signup and the thing they came for.
- * Seafarer wins when both are ticked; the other form is one nav click away.
+ * Seafarer goes to its own registration page, whose Identity Details step
+ * collects the profile answers itself — no detour via `/profile`. Seafarer
+ * wins when both are ticked; the other form is one nav click away.
 */
 const NEXT_STEP: Record<string, string> = {
-  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION: '/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply',
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION: '/seafarer-registration',
  VESSEL_REGISTRATION: '/licensing/VESSEL_REGISTRATION/apply',
 };

--- a/apps/portal/src/app/features/profile/components/RequireSeafarerProfile.tsx
+++ b/apps/portal/src/app/features/profile/components/RequireSeafarerProfile.tsx
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
-import { Center, Loader } from "@mantine/core";
-import { Navigate, useParams } from "react-router-dom";
-import { useCurrentProfile, type ProfileRequirement } from "@ema-platform/auth";
-import { useGetMyApplicationsQuery } from "@ema-platform/api";
+import type { ProfileRequirement } from "@ema-platform/auth";

 /**
- * The identity the seafarer wizard needs before it can produce a registration.
+ * The identity a seafarer registration is built from.
 *
- * No longer a gate on opening the wizard: the Identity Details step collects
- * these itself, so an applicant with an empty profile starts in registration
- * rather than being sent to `/profile` to prepare for it. Kept because
- * `ProfilePage` still reads it to show what a seafarer registration will need.
+ * Not a gate: the registration form (`/seafarer-registration`) collects these
+ * itself and prefills from the profile where it can. `ProfilePage` reads it
+ * to show what a registration will need.
 */
 export const SEAFARER_PROFILE_REQUIREMENT: ProfileRequirement = {
  fields: [
@@ -29,78 +25,3 @@ export const SEAFARER_PROFILE_REQUIREMENT: ProfileRequirement = {
  reason:
    "Seafarer registration is built from your profile — these details fill it in for you.",
 };
-
-const REGISTRATION_TYPE_KEY = "SEAFARER_REGISTRATION";
-
-/**
- * Opens the existing registration summary when the applicant already holds a
- * seafarer number, avoiding an attempt to create a duplicate registration.
- *
- * It deliberately does *not* gate on profile completeness any more. Selecting
- * Seafarer Registration now opens the wizard, and the Identity Details step
- * collects name, gender, DOB, marital status, nationality and national ID
- * itself — an empty profile is a thing the wizard fills, not a reason to be
- * sent away from it. Those answers reach the profile when a reviewer approves
- * the registration (`CompletionEffectService.registerSeafarer`).
- *
- * Wraps `/seafarer-registration` directly and `/licensing/:typeCode/apply`
- * when `typeCode` is the seafarer type — the latter is the shared wizard route
- * every licence type renders through, so without it a deep link skips this.
- */
-export function RequireSeafarerProfile({
-  children,
-}: {
-  children: React.ReactNode;
-}) {
-  const { typeCode } = useParams();
-  const { isLoading, error, profile } = useCurrentProfile();
-
-  // Shared wizard route — only the seafarer type is checked here.
-  const gated = !typeCode || typeCode === REGISTRATION_TYPE_KEY;
-  const registered = Boolean(profile?.seafarerNumber);
-  const { data: applications, isLoading: loadingApplications } =
-    useGetMyApplicationsQuery(undefined, {
-      skip: !gated || !registered,
-    });
-
-  if (!gated) return <>{children}</>;
-
-  if (isLoading) {
-    return (
-      <Center h={200}>
-        <Loader />
-      </Center>
-    );
-  }
-
-  // The number is permanent and the server refuses a second registration.
-  // Keep the registration tab useful by opening the completed application in
-  // its read-only summary instead.
-  if (registered) {
-    if (loadingApplications) {
-      return (
-        <Center h={200}>
-          <Loader />
-        </Center>
-      );
-    }
-    const registration = applications?.items.find(
-      (application) => application.licenseType?.key === REGISTRATION_TYPE_KEY,
-    );
-    if (registration) {
-      return (
-        <Navigate
-          to={`/licensing/${REGISTRATION_TYPE_KEY}/applications/${registration.id}`}
-          replace
-        />
-      );
-    }
-  }
-
-  // A failed lookup must not lock anyone out — an unreadable profile says
-  // nothing about whether this applicant is already registered, and the
-  // server refuses a duplicate registration regardless.
-  if (error) return <>{children}</>;
-
-  return <>{children}</>;
-}
--- a/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/components/RegistrationDocuments.tsx
+++ b/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/components/RegistrationDocuments.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+import { useRef, useState } from 'react';
+import { Alert, Badge, Button, Card, FileButton, Group, Loader, Stack, Text } from '@mantine/core';
+import { IconAlertTriangle, IconCheck, IconFileUpload } from '@tabler/icons-react';
+import {
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENTS,
+  uploadDocument,
+  type Attachment,
+} from '@ema-platform/api';
+
+const MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES = 5 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+/** The document slots a registration asks for. */
+export function documentSlots(passportDeclared: boolean) {
+  return SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENTS.map((d) => ({
+    ...d,
+    isRequired: d.required === 'passport' ? passportDeclared : d.required,
+  })).filter((d) => d.required !== 'passport' || passportDeclared);
+}
+
+export function RegistrationDocuments({
+  registrationId,
+  passportDeclared,
+  attachments,
+  readOnly,
+  onUploaded,
+}: {
+  registrationId: string;
+  passportDeclared: boolean;
+  attachments: Attachment[];
+  readOnly?: boolean;
+  onUploaded: () => void;
+}) {
+  const [busy, setBusy] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const resetRefs = useRef<Record<string, () => void>>({});
+
+  async function handle(documentKey: string, file: File | null) {
+    if (!file) return;
+    if (file.size > MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES) {
+      setError(`File exceeds 5MB limit (${(file.size / 1024 / 1024).toFixed(1)}MB).`);
+      resetRefs.current[documentKey]?.();
+      return;
+    }
+    setBusy(documentKey);
+    setError(null);
+    const result = await uploadDocument({
+      ownerType: 'SEAFARER_REGISTRATION',
+      ownerId: registrationId,
+      documentKey,
+      file,
+    });
+    setBusy(null);
+    resetRefs.current[documentKey]?.();
+    if (result.ok) onUploaded();
+    else setError(result.error);
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <Stack gap="sm">
+      {error && (
+        <Alert color="red" icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />}>
+          {error}
+        </Alert>
+      )}
+      {documentSlots(passportDeclared).map((slot) => {
+        const existing = attachments.find((a) => a.documentKey === slot.key);
+        const uploaded = Boolean(existing?.files?.length);
+        return (
+          <Card
+            key={slot.key}
+            withBorder
+            padding="md"
+            style={{
+              borderColor: uploaded ? 'var(--mantine-color-teal-4)' : undefined,
+              borderStyle: uploaded ? 'solid' : 'dashed',
+            }}
+          >
+            <Group justify="space-between" wrap="nowrap" align="flex-start">
+              <div style={{ minWidth: 0 }}>
+                <Group gap="xs">
+                  <Text fw={600} size="sm">
+                    {slot.name}
+                  </Text>
+                  {!slot.isRequired && (
+                    <Badge size="xs" variant="light" color="gray">
+                      optional
+                    </Badge>
+                  )}
+                  {uploaded && (
+                    <Badge size="xs" color="teal" leftSection={<IconCheck size={10} />}>
+                      uploaded
+                    </Badge>
+                  )}
+                </Group>
+                {slot.description && (
+                  <Text size="xs" c="dimmed" mt={2}>
+                    {slot.description}
+                  </Text>
+                )}
+                {existing?.files?.[0] && (
+                  <Text size="xs" c="dimmed" truncate mt={2}>
+                    {existing.files[0].originalName} · {(existing.files[0].sizeBytes / 1024).toFixed(0)} KB
+                  </Text>
+                )}
+              </div>
+              <Group gap="xs" wrap="nowrap">
+                {existing?.files?.[0]?.url && (
+                  <Button size="xs" variant="subtle" component="a" href={existing.files[0].url} target="_blank">
+                    View
+                  </Button>
+                )}
+                {!readOnly && (
+                  <FileButton
+                    resetRef={(r) => {
+                      if (r) resetRefs.current[slot.key] = r;
+                    }}
+                    onChange={(file) => handle(slot.key, file)}
+                    accept={slot.accept}
+                  >
+                    {(props) => (
+                      <Button
+                        {...props}
+                        size="xs"
+                        variant={uploaded ? 'light' : 'filled'}
+                        leftSection={busy === slot.key ? <Loader size={12} /> : <IconFileUpload size={14} />}
+                        disabled={busy === slot.key}
+                      >
+                        {uploaded ? 'Replace' : 'Upload'}
+                      </Button>
+                    )}
+                  </FileButton>
+                )}
+              </Group>
+            </Group>
+          </Card>
+        );
+      })}
+    </Stack>
+  );
+}
--- a/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/components/RegistrationSummary.tsx
+++ b/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/components/RegistrationSummary.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+import { Divider, Stack, Table, Text } from '@mantine/core';
+import {
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_FIELD_LABELS,
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_SECTIONS,
+  displaySeafarerAnswer,
+  type Attachment,
+  type SaveSeafarerRegistration,
+} from '@ema-platform/api';
+import { documentSlots } from './RegistrationDocuments';
+
+/** Read-only view of every answer and upload, grouped as the wizard asked them. */
+export function RegistrationSummary({
+  answers,
+  attachments,
+}: {
+  answers: SaveSeafarerRegistration;
+  attachments?: Attachment[];
+}) {
+  return (
+    <Stack gap="md">
+      {SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_SECTIONS.map((section) => (
+        <div key={section.key}>
+          <Text fw={600} size="sm" mb={4}>
+            {section.title}
+          </Text>
+          <Table withTableBorder withColumnBorders>
+            <Table.Tbody>
+              {section.fields
+                .filter((f) => f !== 'passportExpiry' || answers.passportNumber)
+                .map((field) => (
+                  <Table.Tr key={field}>
+                    <Table.Td w="45%">
+                      <Text size="xs" c="dimmed">
+                        {SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_FIELD_LABELS[field]}
+                      </Text>
+                    </Table.Td>
+                    <Table.Td>
+                      <Text size="sm">{displaySeafarerAnswer(field, answers[field])}</Text>
+                    </Table.Td>
+                  </Table.Tr>
+                ))}
+            </Table.Tbody>
+          </Table>
+        </div>
+      ))}
+      {attachments && (
+        <>
+          <Divider />
+          <Text fw={600} size="sm" mb={4}>
+            Documents
+          </Text>
+          <Table withTableBorder withColumnBorders>
+            <Table.Tbody>
+              {documentSlots(Boolean(answers.passportNumber)).map((slot) => {
+                const file = attachments.find((a) => a.documentKey === slot.key)?.files?.[0];
+                return (
+                  <Table.Tr key={slot.key}>
+                    <Table.Td w="45%">
+                      <Text size="xs" c="dimmed">
+                        {slot.name}
+                      </Text>
+                    </Table.Td>
+                    <Table.Td>
+                      {file ? (
+                        file.url ? (
+                          <a href={file.url} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
+                            {file.originalName}
+                          </a>
+                        ) : (
+                          <Text size="sm">{file.originalName}</Text>
+                        )
+                      ) : (
+                        <Text size="sm" c={slot.isRequired ? 'red' : 'dimmed'}>
+                          {slot.isRequired ? 'Missing' : '—'}
+                        </Text>
+                      )}
+                    </Table.Td>
+                  </Table.Tr>
+                );
+              })}
+            </Table.Tbody>
+          </Table>
+        </>
+      )}
+    </Stack>
+  );
+}
--- a/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/components/fields.tsx
+++ b/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/components/fields.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+import { Checkbox, Grid, Input, NumberInput, Select, TextInput } from '@mantine/core';
+import type { SaveSeafarerRegistration } from '@ema-platform/api';
+import { AmharicDatePicker, CountrySelect, getCountryCode, getCountryName } from '@ema-platform/ui';
+import { LocationPicker } from '../../location/components/LocationPicker';
+
+export type AnswerKey = keyof SaveSeafarerRegistration;
+
+/** What every step receives: the answers, a setter, the errors, and whether it is locked. */
+export interface StepProps {
+  form: SaveSeafarerRegistration;
+  set: (key: AnswerKey, value: unknown) => void;
+  errors: Partial<Record<AnswerKey, string>>;
+  disabled?: boolean;
+}
+
+interface FieldProps extends StepProps {
+  name: AnswerKey;
+  label: string;
+  required?: boolean;
+  description?: string;
+  maxLength?: number;
+  span?: number;
+}
+
+const common = (p: FieldProps) => ({
+  label: p.label,
+  description: p.description,
+  withAsterisk: p.required,
+  error: p.errors[p.name],
+  disabled: p.disabled,
+});
+
+const Col = ({ span = 6, children }: { span?: number; children: React.ReactNode }) => (
+  <Grid.Col span={{ base: 12, md: span }}>{children}</Grid.Col>
+);
+
+export function TextField(p: FieldProps) {
+  return (
+    <Col span={p.span}>
+      <TextInput
+        {...common(p)}
+        maxLength={p.maxLength}
+        value={(p.form[p.name] as string) ?? ''}
+        onChange={(e) => p.set(p.name, e.currentTarget.value)}
+      />
+    </Col>
+  );
+}
+
+export function SelectField(p: FieldProps & { options: { value: string; label: string }[] }) {
+  return (
+    <Col span={p.span}>
+      <Select
+        {...common(p)}
+        data={p.options}
+        value={(p.form[p.name] as string) ?? null}
+        onChange={(v) => p.set(p.name, v)}
+        clearable={!p.required}
+      />
+    </Col>
+  );
+}
+
+export function DateField(p: FieldProps) {
+  return (
+    <Col span={p.span}>
+      <AmharicDatePicker
+        label={p.label}
+        error={p.errors[p.name]}
+        disabled={p.disabled}
+        required={p.required}
+        dateFormat="date"
+        value={(p.form[p.name] as string) ?? ''}
+        onChange={(v) => p.set(p.name, v)}
+      />
+    </Col>
+  );
+}
+
+export function NumberField(p: FieldProps) {
+  return (
+    <Col span={p.span}>
+      <NumberInput
+        {...common(p)}
+        // Not clamped: validation reports an out-of-range figure instead of
+        // Mantine quietly rewriting what the applicant typed.
+        value={(p.form[p.name] as number) ?? ''}
+        onChange={(v) => p.set(p.name, v === '' ? null : Number(v))}
+      />
+    </Col>
+  );
+}
+
+/** Stored as the full country name, like the profile; picked by alpha-2 code. */
+export function NationalityField(p: FieldProps) {
+  const stored = (p.form[p.name] as string) ?? '';
+  return (
+    <Col span={p.span}>
+      <CountrySelect
+        {...common(p)}
+        required={p.required}
+        demonym
+        value={getCountryCode(stored) ?? (stored || null)}
+        onChange={(code) => p.set(p.name, code ? getCountryName(code) || code : null)}
+      />
+    </Col>
+  );
+}
+
+export function LocationField(p: FieldProps) {
+  return (
+    <Col span={p.span}>
+      <Input.Wrapper
+        label={p.label}
+        description={p.description}
+        withAsterisk={p.required}
+        error={p.errors[p.name]}
+      >
+        <LocationPicker
+          value={(p.form[p.name] as string) ?? undefined}
+          onChange={(id) => p.set(p.name, id)}
+          required={p.required}
+          maxDepth={3}
+          disabled={p.disabled}
+        />
+      </Input.Wrapper>
+    </Col>
+  );
+}
+
+export function CheckboxField(p: FieldProps) {
+  return (
+    <Col span={12}>
+      <Checkbox
+        label={p.label}
+        error={p.errors[p.name]}
+        disabled={p.disabled}
+        checked={Boolean(p.form[p.name])}
+        onChange={(e) => p.set(p.name, e.currentTarget.checked)}
+      />
+    </Col>
+  );
+}
--- a/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/components/steps.tsx
+++ b/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/components/steps.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+import { Divider, Grid, Stack, Text, TextInput } from '@mantine/core';
+import {
+  BLOOD_TYPE_OPTIONS,
+  DEPARTMENT_OPTIONS,
+  EYE_COLOR_OPTIONS,
+  GENDER_OPTIONS,
+  HAIR_COLOR_OPTIONS,
+  MARITAL_STATUS_OPTIONS,
+} from '@ema-platform/api';
+import {
+  DateField,
+  LocationField,
+  NationalityField,
+  NumberField,
+  SelectField,
+  TextField,
+  type StepProps,
+} from './fields';
+
+function SectionTitle({ title, description }: { title: string; description?: string }) {
+  return (
+    <div>
+      <Text fw={600} fz="sm" tt="uppercase" c="gray.6">
+        {title}
+      </Text>
+      {description && (
+        <Text size="sm" c="dimmed" mt={2}>
+          {description}
+        </Text>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Step 1 — Identity Details.
+ *
+ * Email and phone are account credentials: shown, never edited here. The
+ * rest is prefilled from the profile and editable — what is entered becomes
+ * the registered identity once a reviewer approves.
+ */
+export function IdentityDetailsStep(
+  p: StepProps & { account: { email?: string; phoneNumber?: string } },
+) {
+  return (
+    <Stack gap="lg">
+      <SectionTitle title="Contact Details" />
+      <Grid>
+        <Grid.Col span={{ base: 12, md: 6 }}>
+          <TextInput label="Account Email" value={p.account.email ?? ''} disabled />
+        </Grid.Col>
+        <Grid.Col span={{ base: 12, md: 6 }}>
+          <TextInput label="Account Phone Number" value={p.account.phoneNumber ?? ''} disabled />
+        </Grid.Col>
+      </Grid>
+      <Divider />
+      <SectionTitle
+        title="Identity Details"
+        description="Prefilled from your profile where we have it. Check each field and correct anything that is wrong — what you enter here becomes your registered identity."
+      />
+      <Grid>
+        <TextField {...p} name="firstName" label="First Name" required maxLength={128} />
+        <TextField {...p} name="middleName" label="Middle Name" maxLength={128} />
+        <TextField {...p} name="lastName" label="Last Name" required maxLength={128} />
+        <SelectField {...p} name="gender" label="Gender" required options={GENDER_OPTIONS} />
+        <DateField {...p} name="dateOfBirth" label="Date of Birth" required />
+        <SelectField {...p} name="maritalStatus" label="Marital Status" required options={MARITAL_STATUS_OPTIONS} />
+        <NationalityField {...p} name="nationality" label="Nationality" required />
+        <TextField {...p} name="nationalIdNumber" label="National ID (Fayda) Number" required maxLength={64} />
+      </Grid>
+    </Stack>
+  );
+}
+
+/** Step 2 — Identity, Address, Physical Characteristics, Medical Certificate. */
+export function ApplicantDetailsStep(p: StepProps) {
+  return (
+    <Stack gap="lg">
+      <SectionTitle title="Identity" />
+      <Grid>
+        <TextField {...p} name="placeOfBirth" label="Place of Birth" required maxLength={128} />
+        <TextField
+          {...p}
+          name="passportNumber"
+          label="Passport Number"
+          maxLength={32}
+          description="Required later for international sea service; optional at registration."
+        />
+        {p.form.passportNumber && (
+          <DateField {...p} name="passportExpiry" label="Passport Expiry Date" />
+        )}
+        <SelectField
+          {...p}
+          name="department"
+          label="Department"
+          required
+          options={DEPARTMENT_OPTIONS}
+          description="The STCW department you serve in. Determines which certificates, examinations and services apply to you."
+        />
+      </Grid>
+
+      <Divider />
+      <SectionTitle title="Address" />
+      <Grid>
+        <LocationField
+          {...p}
+          name="locationId"
+          label="Location"
+          required
+          description="City / sub-city selected from the location picker."
+        />
+        <TextField {...p} name="permanentAddress" label="Permanent Address" maxLength={255} />
+        <TextField
+          {...p}
+          name="currentAddress"
+          label="Current Address"
+          maxLength={255}
+          description="Where you currently live, if different from the permanent address."
+        />
+      </Grid>
+
+      <Divider />
+      <SectionTitle
+        title="Physical Characteristics"
+        description="Identifying details printed in your Seaman Book."
+      />
+      <Grid>
+        <SelectField {...p} name="hairColor" label="Hair Colour" required options={HAIR_COLOR_OPTIONS} />
+        <SelectField {...p} name="eyeColor" label="Eye Colour" required options={EYE_COLOR_OPTIONS} />
+        <NumberField {...p} name="heightCm" label="Height (cm)" required description="In centimetres, e.g. 172.5" />
+        <NumberField {...p} name="weightKg" label="Weight (kg)" required description="In kilograms, e.g. 68.0" />
+        <SelectField
+          {...p}
+          name="bloodType"
+          label="Blood Type"
+          options={BLOOD_TYPE_OPTIONS}
+          description="Optional. Select Unknown if you have not been tested."
+        />
+      </Grid>
+
+      <Divider />
+      <SectionTitle
+        title="Medical Certificate"
+        description="Details from your STCW medical fitness certificate. The expiry date is calculated from the issue date."
+      />
+      <Grid>
+        <TextField {...p} name="medicalCertificateNumber" label="Certificate Number" required maxLength={64} />
+        <TextField {...p} name="medicalIssuerName" label="Issuing Clinic or Practitioner" required maxLength={255} />
+        <DateField
+          {...p}
+          name="medicalIssueDate"
+          label="Issue Date"
+          required
+          description="Cannot be a future date. Validity is calculated from this: two years, or one year if you are under 18."
+        />
+      </Grid>
+    </Stack>
+  );
+}
+
+/** Step 3 — Emergency Contact. */
+export function EmergencyContactStep(p: StepProps) {
+  return (
+    <Stack gap="lg">
+      <SectionTitle title="Emergency Contact" description="The person EMA contacts in an emergency." />
+      <Grid>
+        <TextField {...p} name="emergencyContactName" label="Full Name" maxLength={255} />
+        <TextField {...p} name="emergencyContactRelationship" label="Relationship" maxLength={64} />
+        <TextField {...p} name="emergencyContactPhone" label="Phone Number" maxLength={32} />
+      </Grid>
+    </Stack>
+  );
+}
--- a/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/pages/SeafarerRegistrationPage.tsx
+++ b/apps/portal/src/app/features/seafarer-registration/pages/SeafarerRegistrationPage.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,425 @@
+import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
+import {
+  Alert,
+  Badge,
+  Button,
+  Center,
+  Container,
+  Divider,
+  Grid,
+  Group,
+  Loader,
+  Paper,
+  Stack,
+  Stepper,
+  Text,
+  Title,
+} from '@mantine/core';
+import { IconAlertTriangle, IconCheck, IconInfoCircle, IconPencil } from '@tabler/icons-react';
+import { notifications } from '@mantine/notifications';
+import {
+  PHYSICAL_BOUNDS,
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_FIELD_LABELS,
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_COLORS,
+  SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_LABELS,
+  extractErrorMessage,
+  extractValidationIssues,
+  useGetAttachmentsQuery,
+  useGetMySeafarerRegistrationQuery,
+  useSaveSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useStartSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useSubmitSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  type SaveSeafarerRegistration,
+  type SeafarerRegistration,
+  type ValidationIssue,
+} from '@ema-platform/api';
+import { splitPersonName } from '@ema-platform/ui';
+import { useCurrentProfile, type CurrentProfile } from '@ema-platform/auth';
+import { useAppSelector } from '../../../store/hooks';
+import { CheckboxField, type AnswerKey } from '../components/fields';
+import { ApplicantDetailsStep, EmergencyContactStep, IdentityDetailsStep } from '../components/steps';
+import { RegistrationDocuments, documentSlots } from '../components/RegistrationDocuments';
+import { RegistrationSummary } from '../components/RegistrationSummary';
+
+const STEPS = ['Identity Details', 'Applicant Details', 'Emergency Contact', 'Documents', 'Review'];
+
+/** Which answers each step must have before "Continue" — mirrors the API's submission check. */
+const REQUIRED_BY_STEP: AnswerKey[][] = [
+  ['firstName', 'lastName', 'gender', 'dateOfBirth', 'maritalStatus', 'nationality', 'nationalIdNumber'],
+  [
+    'placeOfBirth', 'department', 'locationId', 'hairColor', 'eyeColor', 'heightCm', 'weightKg',
+    'medicalCertificateNumber', 'medicalIssuerName', 'medicalIssueDate',
+  ],
+  [],
+  [],
+  ['declarationAccepted'],
+];
+
+const ANSWER_KEYS = Object.keys(SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_FIELD_LABELS) as AnswerKey[];
+
+function answersOf(registration: SeafarerRegistration): SaveSeafarerRegistration {
+  return Object.fromEntries(ANSWER_KEYS.map((k) => [k, registration[k]])) as SaveSeafarerRegistration;
+}
+
+function blank(value: unknown): boolean {
+  return value === null || value === undefined || value === '' || value === false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Fills blank answers from the profile.
+ *
+ * The API prefills a draft when it is opened, but an applicant who declared
+ * "seafarer" at onboarding lands here before their profile has an address —
+ * so whatever they fill in on /profile afterwards would never reach a draft
+ * already open. Blank-only: an answer the applicant typed or the server saved
+ * is left alone.
+ */
+function withProfileDefaults(
+  answers: SaveSeafarerRegistration,
+  profile: CurrentProfile | undefined,
+  accountName: string | undefined,
+): SaveSeafarerRegistration {
+  if (!profile) return answers;
+  const a = profile.address;
+  const parts = accountName ? splitPersonName(accountName) : null;
+  const defaults: SaveSeafarerRegistration = {
+    firstName: profile.firstName || parts?.firstName || null,
+    middleName: profile.middleName || parts?.middleName || null,
+    lastName: profile.lastName || parts?.lastName || null,
+    gender: (profile.gender as SaveSeafarerRegistration['gender']) || null,
+    dateOfBirth: profile.dob ? profile.dob.slice(0, 10) : null,
+    maritalStatus: (profile.maritalStatus as SaveSeafarerRegistration['maritalStatus']) || null,
+    placeOfBirth: profile.pob || null,
+    nationality: a?.nationality || null,
+    nationalIdNumber: a?.idType === 'NID' ? a.idNumber || null : null,
+    passportNumber: a?.passportNumber || null,
+    passportExpiry: a?.passportExpiry || null,
+    permanentAddress: a?.streetAddress || null,
+    currentAddress: a?.currentAddress || null,
+    emergencyContactName: a?.emergencyContactName || null,
+    emergencyContactPhone: a?.emergencyContactPhone || null,
+    emergencyContactRelationship: a?.emergencyContactRelation || null,
+    department: profile.seafarerDepartment || null,
+  };
+  const next = { ...answers };
+  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(defaults) as [AnswerKey, unknown][]) {
+    if (blank(next[key]) && !blank(value)) (next as Record<string, unknown>)[key] = value;
+  }
+  return next;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Seafarer registration — a fixed five-step form, not a configured wizard.
+ *
+ * A draft is opened on first visit so uploads have an owner and nothing is
+ * lost if the browser closes mid-way. Each "Continue" validates the step and
+ * saves it; Submit saves everything and asks the API, which names anything
+ * still missing. A submitted registration opens to a read-only summary.
+ */
+export function SeafarerRegistrationPage() {
+  const accountUser = useAppSelector((state) => state.auth.user);
+  const { profile } = useCurrentProfile();
+  const { data, isLoading } = useGetMySeafarerRegistrationQuery();
+  const registration = data?.registration ?? null;
+
+  const [start] = useStartSeafarerRegistrationMutation();
+  const [save] = useSaveSeafarerRegistrationMutation();
+  const [submit, { isLoading: submitting }] = useSubmitSeafarerRegistrationMutation();
+  const [startError, setStartError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const started = useRef(false);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (isLoading || registration || started.current) return;
+    started.current = true;
+    start()
+      .unwrap()
+      .catch((err) => setStartError(extractErrorMessage(err)));
+  }, [isLoading, registration, start]);
+
+  const { data: attachments = [], refetch: refetchAttachments } = useGetAttachmentsQuery(
+    { ownerType: 'SEAFARER_REGISTRATION', ownerId: registration?.id ?? '' },
+    { skip: !registration },
+  );
+
+  const [active, setActive] = useState(0);
+  const [viewingSummary, setViewingSummary] = useState(true);
+  const [form, setForm] = useState<SaveSeafarerRegistration>({});
+  const [errors, setErrors] = useState<Partial<Record<AnswerKey, string>>>({});
+  const [issues, setIssues] = useState<ValidationIssue[]>([]);
+
+  const accountName = accountUser?.name?.en ?? profile?.user?.name?.en;
+  const isDraft = registration?.status === 'DRAFT';
+
+  // Seed local edits from the server copy when the registration (or its
+  // round) changes — not on every refetch, which would wipe typing in progress.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!registration) return;
+    const answers = answersOf(registration);
+    setForm(isDraft ? withProfileDefaults(answers, profile, accountName) : answers);
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [registration?.id, registration?.status]);
+
+  // The profile can arrive after the draft did; fill what is still blank.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!isDraft || !profile) return;
+    setForm((prev) => withProfileDefaults(prev, profile, accountName));
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [profile?.id, profile?.address?.id, isDraft]);
+
+  if (startError) {
+    return (
+      <Container size="md" py="xl">
+        <Alert color={profile?.seafarerNumber ? 'teal' : 'red'} icon={<IconInfoCircle size={16} />} title="Seafarer Registration">
+          {profile?.seafarerNumber
+            ? `You are already registered as a seafarer (${profile.seafarerNumber}).`
+            : startError}
+        </Alert>
+      </Container>
+    );
+  }
+
+  if (isLoading || !registration) {
+    return (
+      <Center h={400}>
+        <Loader />
+      </Center>
+    );
+  }
+
+  const isAdjusting = registration.status === 'RESUBMIT_REQUIRED';
+  const editableWhileSubmitted = registration.status === 'SUBMITTED' && !registration.assignedOfficerId;
+  const readOnly = !['DRAFT', 'RESUBMIT_REQUIRED'].includes(registration.status) && !editableWhileSubmitted;
+  const showSummary = registration.status !== 'DRAFT' && viewingSummary;
+
+  function set(key: AnswerKey, value: unknown) {
+    setForm((prev) => ({ ...prev, [key]: value }));
+    setErrors((prev) => {
+      if (!prev[key]) return prev;
+      const next = { ...prev };
+      delete next[key];
+      return next;
+    });
+  }
+
+  function validateStep(index: number): boolean {
+    const found: Partial<Record<AnswerKey, string>> = {};
+    for (const key of REQUIRED_BY_STEP[index] ?? []) {
+      if (blank(form[key])) found[key] = `${SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_FIELD_LABELS[key]} is required.`;
+    }
+    if (index === 1) {
+      const { heightCm, weightKg } = PHYSICAL_BOUNDS;
+      if (typeof form.heightCm === 'number' && (form.heightCm < heightCm.min || form.heightCm > heightCm.max)) {
+        found.heightCm = `Enter a height between ${heightCm.min} and ${heightCm.max} cm.`;
+      }
+      if (typeof form.weightKg === 'number' && (form.weightKg < weightKg.min || form.weightKg > weightKg.max)) {
+        found.weightKg = `Enter a weight between ${weightKg.min} and ${weightKg.max} kg.`;
+      }
+    }
+    setErrors(found);
+    const count = Object.keys(found).length;
+    if (count) {
+      notifications.show({
+        color: 'red',
+        title: 'Incomplete',
+        message: `Complete ${count} required field${count > 1 ? 's' : ''} to continue.`,
+      });
+      return false;
+    }
+    if (index === 3) {
+      const supplied = new Set(attachments.filter((a) => a.files?.length).map((a) => a.documentKey));
+      const missing = documentSlots(Boolean(form.passportNumber))
+        .filter((d) => d.isRequired && !supplied.has(d.key))
+        .map((d) => d.name);
+      if (missing.length) {
+        notifications.show({
+          color: 'red',
+          title: 'Documents missing',
+          message: `Upload: ${missing.join(', ')}.`,
+        });
+        return false;
+      }
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  async function saveAnswers(): Promise<boolean> {
+    if (readOnly || !registration) return true;
+    try {
+      await save({ id: registration.id, body: form }).unwrap();
+      return true;
+    } catch (err) {
+      notifications.show({ color: 'red', title: 'Could not save', message: extractErrorMessage(err) });
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  async function goToStep(target: number) {
+    if (target <= active) {
+      setActive(target);
+      return;
+    }
+    // Going forward validates every step passed over, so a jump cannot skip a
+    // required field; the walk stops on the first step that fails.
+    for (let step = active; step < target; step++) {
+      if (!readOnly && !validateStep(step)) {
+        setActive(step);
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+    if (!(await saveAnswers())) return;
+    setErrors({});
+    setActive(target);
+  }
+
+  async function handleSubmit() {
+    if (!registration) return;
+    setIssues([]);
+    if (!readOnly && !validateStep(4)) return;
+    if (!(await saveAnswers())) return;
+    try {
+      await submit(registration.id).unwrap();
+      notifications.show({
+        color: 'teal',
+        title: isAdjusting ? 'Resubmitted' : 'Registration submitted',
+        message: isAdjusting
+          ? 'Your corrections were sent back to the reviewing officer.'
+          : 'You will be notified as it progresses.',
+      });
+      setViewingSummary(true);
+    } catch (err) {
+      const found = extractValidationIssues(err);
+      setIssues(found);
+      notifications.show({
+        color: 'red',
+        title: 'Registration incomplete',
+        message: found.length ? `${found.length} item(s) still need attention.` : extractErrorMessage(err),
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  const stepProps = { form, set, errors, disabled: readOnly };
+
+  return (
+    <Container size="lg" py="md">
+      <Group justify="space-between" mb="xs" align="flex-start">
+        <div>
+          <Title order={3}>Seafarer Registration</Title>
+          <Group gap="xs" mt={4}>
+            <Text size="sm" c="dimmed">
+              {registration.registrationNumber}
+            </Text>
+            <Badge size="sm" variant="light" color={SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_COLORS[registration.status]}>
+              {SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_LABELS[registration.status]}
+            </Badge>
+          </Group>
+        </div>
+        {showSummary && !readOnly && (
+          <Button size="xs" variant="default" leftSection={<IconPencil size={14} />} onClick={() => setViewingSummary(false)}>
+            Edit details
+          </Button>
+        )}
+      </Group>
+
+      {registration.status === 'APPROVED' && (
+        <Alert color="teal" icon={<IconCheck size={16} />} title="Registered" mb="md">
+          You are a registered seafarer. Your seafarer number is <b>{registration.seafarerNumber}</b>.
+          Your Seaman Book and Basic Training Certificate applications have been opened for you.
+        </Alert>
+      )}
+      {registration.status === 'REJECTED' && (
+        <Alert color="red" icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />} title="Registration rejected" mb="md">
+          {registration.rejectionReason}
+        </Alert>
+      )}
+      {isAdjusting && (
+        <Alert color="orange" icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />} title="Corrections requested" mb="md">
+          {registration.reviewRemark}
+        </Alert>
+      )}
+      {showSummary && editableWhileSubmitted && (
+        <Alert color="blue" icon={<IconInfoCircle size={16} />} title="Submitted — still correctable" mb="md">
+          Your registration is in the queue. You can still change any detail until a reviewing officer
+          picks it up; after that, corrections happen only if they ask for them.
+        </Alert>
+      )}
+      {issues.length > 0 && (
+        <Alert color="red" icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />} title="Still missing" mb="md">
+          <Stack gap={2}>
+            {issues.map((issue, i) => (
+              <Text size="sm" key={i}>
+                • {issue.message}
+              </Text>
+            ))}
+          </Stack>
+        </Alert>
+      )}
+
+      {showSummary && (
+        <Paper withBorder p="lg" radius="md">
+          <RegistrationSummary answers={answersOf(registration)} attachments={attachments} />
+        </Paper>
+      )}
+
+      {!showSummary && (
+        <Paper withBorder p="lg" radius="md">
+          <Stepper active={active} onStepClick={goToStep} size="sm" mb="lg">
+            {STEPS.map((label) => (
+              <Stepper.Step key={label} label={label} />
+            ))}
+          </Stepper>
+
+          {active === 0 && (
+            <IdentityDetailsStep
+              {...stepProps}
+              account={{ email: accountUser?.email, phoneNumber: accountUser?.phoneNumber }}
+            />
+          )}
+          {active === 1 && <ApplicantDetailsStep {...stepProps} />}
+          {active === 2 && <EmergencyContactStep {...stepProps} />}
+          {active === 3 && (
+            <RegistrationDocuments
+              registrationId={registration.id}
+              passportDeclared={Boolean(form.passportNumber)}
+              attachments={attachments}
+              readOnly={readOnly}
+              onUploaded={refetchAttachments}
+            />
+          )}
+          {active === 4 && (
+            <Stack>
+              <Text fw={600} fz="sm" tt="uppercase" c="gray.6">
+                Declaration
+              </Text>
+              <Grid>
+                <CheckboxField
+                  {...stepProps}
+                  name="declarationAccepted"
+                  label="I declare that the information provided is complete and accurate."
+                  required
+                />
+              </Grid>
+              <Divider my="md" />
+              <Title order={5}>Review</Title>
+              <RegistrationSummary answers={form} attachments={attachments} />
+            </Stack>
+          )}
+
+          <Group justify="space-between" mt="xl">
+            <Button variant="default" onClick={() => setActive((s) => Math.max(0, s - 1))} disabled={active === 0}>
+              Back
+            </Button>
+            {active < STEPS.length - 1 ? (
+              <Button onClick={() => goToStep(active + 1)}>Continue</Button>
+            ) : (
+              <Button color="teal" loading={submitting} disabled={readOnly} onClick={handleSubmit}>
+                {isAdjusting ? 'Resubmit corrections' : 'Submit registration'}
+              </Button>
+            )}
+          </Group>
+        </Paper>
+      )}
+    </Container>
+  );
+}
+
+export default SeafarerRegistrationPage;
--- a/apps/portal/src/app/router.tsx
+++ b/apps/portal/src/app/router.tsx
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ const L = LICENSE_PERMISSIONS;
 // Portal feature pages
 import { DashboardPage } from "./features/dashboard/pages/DashboardPage";
 import { RequireOperations } from "./features/onboarding/components/RequireOperations";
-import { RequireSeafarerProfile } from "./features/profile/components/RequireSeafarerProfile";
 import { OperationsOnboardingPage } from "./features/onboarding/pages/OperationsOnboardingPage";
 import { ProfilePage } from "./features/profile/pages/ProfilePage";
 import { SupportPage } from "./features/support/pages/SupportPage";
 import { MySeaRecordsPage } from "./features/seafarer/pages/MySeaRecordsPage";
+import { SeafarerRegistrationPage } from "./features/seafarer-registration/pages/SeafarerRegistrationPage";
 import { ExamsPage } from "./features/exams/pages/ExamsPage";

 // Phase 1 pages
@@ -140,14 +140,21 @@ export const router = createBrowserRouter([
        path: "/licensing/SEAMAN_BOOK/applications/:applicationId",
        element: <Navigate to="/seaman-book" replace />,
      },
+      // Seafarer registration is not a licence: it has its own page and API.
+      {
+        path: "/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply",
+        element: <Navigate to="/seafarer-registration" replace />,
+      },
+      {
+        path: "/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/applications/:applicationId",
+        element: <Navigate to="/seafarer-registration" replace />,
+      },
      {
        path: "/licensing/:typeCode/apply",
        element: (
-          <RequireSeafarerProfile>
-            <RequirePermission anyOf={[L.CREATE_APPLICATION]}>
-              <LicenseApplicationPage />
-            </RequirePermission>
-          </RequireSeafarerProfile>
+          <RequirePermission anyOf={[L.CREATE_APPLICATION]}>
+            <LicenseApplicationPage />
+          </RequirePermission>
        ),
      },
      {
@@ -171,17 +178,15 @@ export const router = createBrowserRouter([

      // Seafarer
      //
-      // Registration runs through the shared application wizard like every
-      // other service. It used to have a page of its own that wrote the
-      // profile directly and created no application at all — which meant a
-      // "submitted" registration was never reviewed, never approved and never
-      // numbered, because there was nothing for an officer to open. The
-      // wizard, the review queue and the approval side effects all already
-      // existed; only the route was pointed away from them.
+      // Registration is its own five-step form over its own endpoints —
+      // not a configured licence type. A draft opens on first visit; once
+      // submitted the page shows the registration's status and answers.
      {
        path: "/seafarer-registration",
        element: (
-          <Navigate to="/licensing/SEAFARER_REGISTRATION/apply" replace />
+          <RequirePermission anyOf={[P.APPLY_SEAFARER_REGISTRATION]}>
+            <SeafarerRegistrationPage />
+          </RequirePermission>
        ),
      },
      {
--- a/libs/api/src/index.ts
+++ b/libs/api/src/index.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ export * from './lib/session';
 export * from './lib/features/licensing';
 export * from './lib/features/location';
 export * from './lib/features/seafarer';
+export * from './lib/features/seafarer-registration';
 export * from './lib/features/vessel';
 export { baseQueryWithReauth, configureTokenRefresh } from './lib/base-api/base-query-with-reauth';
 export { openAuthedDocument } from './lib/base-api/download';
--- a/libs/api/src/lib/features/licensing/licensing.helpers.ts
+++ b/libs/api/src/lib/features/licensing/licensing.helpers.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ export async function uploadDocument(params: {
    | 'INSPECTION'
    | 'LICENSE'
    | 'SEA_SERVICE_RECORD'
-    | 'MEDICAL_CERTIFICATE';
+    | 'MEDICAL_CERTIFICATE'
+    | 'SEAFARER_REGISTRATION';
  ownerId: string;
  documentKey: string;
  file: File;
--- a/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer-registration/index.ts
+++ b/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer-registration/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export * from './seafarer-registration.types';
+export * from './seafarer-registration.constants';
+export * from './seafarer-registration-api';
--- a/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer-registration/seafarer-registration-api.ts
+++ b/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer-registration/seafarer-registration-api.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+import { baseApi } from '../../base-api';
+import type { Attachment } from '../licensing/licensing.types';
+import type {
+  SaveSeafarerRegistration,
+  SeafarerRegistration,
+  SeafarerRegistrationStatus,
+} from './seafarer-registration.types';
+
+const TAG = 'SeafarerRegistration' as const;
+const LIST = { type: TAG, id: 'LIST' } as const;
+const item = (id: string) => ({ type: TAG, id }) as const;
+
+export interface SeafarerRegistrationListFilter {
+  status?: SeafarerRegistrationStatus;
+  search?: string;
+  take?: number;
+  skip?: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Seafarer registration — its own endpoints, not a licence application.
+ * Uploads still go through `/attachments` with ownerType SEAFARER_REGISTRATION.
+ */
+export const seafarerRegistrationApi = baseApi
+  .enhanceEndpoints({ addTagTypes: [TAG] })
+  .injectEndpoints({
+    endpoints: (builder) => ({
+      // ------------------------------------------------------------ applicant
+      getMySeafarerRegistration: builder.query<{ registration: SeafarerRegistration | null }, void>({
+        query: () => ({ url: '/seafarer-registrations/mine' }),
+        providesTags: (r) => [LIST, ...(r?.registration ? [item(r.registration.id)] : [])],
+      }),
+
+      startSeafarerRegistration: builder.mutation<SeafarerRegistration, void>({
+        query: () => ({ url: '/seafarer-registrations', method: 'POST' }),
+        invalidatesTags: (_r, error) => (error ? [] : [LIST]),
+      }),
+
+      saveSeafarerRegistration: builder.mutation<
+        SeafarerRegistration,
+        { id: string; body: SaveSeafarerRegistration }
+      >({
+        query: ({ id, body }) => ({ url: `/seafarer-registrations/${id}`, method: 'PUT', body }),
+        invalidatesTags: (_r, error, { id }) => (error ? [] : [LIST, item(id)]),
+      }),
+
+      submitSeafarerRegistration: builder.mutation<SeafarerRegistration, string>({
+        query: (id) => ({ url: `/seafarer-registrations/${id}/submit`, method: 'POST' }),
+        invalidatesTags: (_r, error, id) => (error ? [] : [LIST, item(id)]),
+      }),
+
+      // --------------------------------------------------------------- review
+      listSeafarerRegistrations: builder.query<
+        { total: number; items: SeafarerRegistration[] },
+        SeafarerRegistrationListFilter
+      >({
+        query: (params) => ({ url: '/seafarer-registration-review', params }),
+        providesTags: () => [LIST],
+      }),
+
+      getSeafarerRegistrationReview: builder.query<
+        { registration: SeafarerRegistration; attachments: Attachment[] },
+        string
+      >({
+        query: (id) => ({ url: `/seafarer-registration-review/${id}` }),
+        providesTags: (_r, _e, id) => [item(id)],
+      }),
+
+      claimSeafarerRegistration: builder.mutation<SeafarerRegistration, string>({
+        query: (id) => ({ url: `/seafarer-registration-review/${id}/claim`, method: 'POST' }),
+        invalidatesTags: (_r, error, id) => (error ? [] : [LIST, item(id)]),
+      }),
+
+      approveSeafarerRegistration: builder.mutation<
+        SeafarerRegistration,
+        { id: string; remark?: string }
+      >({
+        query: ({ id, ...body }) => ({
+          url: `/seafarer-registration-review/${id}/approve`,
+          method: 'POST',
+          body,
+        }),
+        invalidatesTags: (_r, error, { id }) => (error ? [] : [LIST, item(id)]),
+      }),
+
+      rejectSeafarerRegistration: builder.mutation<
+        SeafarerRegistration,
+        { id: string; reason: string }
+      >({
+        query: ({ id, ...body }) => ({
+          url: `/seafarer-registration-review/${id}/reject`,
+          method: 'POST',
+          body,
+        }),
+        invalidatesTags: (_r, error, { id }) => (error ? [] : [LIST, item(id)]),
+      }),
+
+      requestSeafarerRegistrationChanges: builder.mutation<
+        SeafarerRegistration,
+        { id: string; remark: string }
+      >({
+        query: ({ id, ...body }) => ({
+          url: `/seafarer-registration-review/${id}/request-changes`,
+          method: 'POST',
+          body,
+        }),
+        invalidatesTags: (_r, error, { id }) => (error ? [] : [LIST, item(id)]),
+      }),
+    }),
+    overrideExisting: false,
+  });
+
+export const {
+  useGetMySeafarerRegistrationQuery,
+  useStartSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useSaveSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useSubmitSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useListSeafarerRegistrationsQuery,
+  useGetSeafarerRegistrationReviewQuery,
+  useClaimSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useApproveSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useRejectSeafarerRegistrationMutation,
+  useRequestSeafarerRegistrationChangesMutation,
+} = seafarerRegistrationApi;
--- a/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer-registration/seafarer-registration.constants.ts
+++ b/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer-registration/seafarer-registration.constants.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+import type {
+  SeafarerRegistrationAnswers,
+  SeafarerRegistrationStatus,
+} from './seafarer-registration.types';
+
+/**
+ * Option lists and labels shared by the portal wizard and the backoffice
+ * review screen. Values are the server's enum members.
+ */
+export const GENDER_OPTIONS = [
+  { value: 'MALE', label: 'Male' },
+  { value: 'FEMALE', label: 'Female' },
+];
+
+export const MARITAL_STATUS_OPTIONS = [
+  { value: 'SINGLE', label: 'Single' },
+  { value: 'MARRIED', label: 'Married' },
+  { value: 'DIVORCED', label: 'Divorced' },
+  { value: 'WIDOWED', label: 'Widowed' },
+];
+
+export const DEPARTMENT_OPTIONS = [
+  { value: 'DECK', label: 'Deck' },
+  { value: 'ENGINE', label: 'Engine' },
+  { value: 'CATERING', label: 'Catering' },
+];
+
+export const HAIR_COLOR_OPTIONS = [
+  { value: 'BLACK', label: 'Black' },
+  { value: 'BROWN', label: 'Brown' },
+  { value: 'BLONDE', label: 'Blonde' },
+  { value: 'RED', label: 'Red' },
+  { value: 'GREY', label: 'Grey' },
+  { value: 'WHITE', label: 'White' },
+  { value: 'BALD', label: 'Bald' },
+  { value: 'OTHER', label: 'Other' },
+];
+
+export const EYE_COLOR_OPTIONS = [
+  { value: 'BROWN', label: 'Brown' },
+  { value: 'BLACK', label: 'Black' },
+  { value: 'BLUE', label: 'Blue' },
+  { value: 'GREEN', label: 'Green' },
+  { value: 'HAZEL', label: 'Hazel' },
+  { value: 'GREY', label: 'Grey' },
+  { value: 'OTHER', label: 'Other' },
+];
+
+export const BLOOD_TYPE_OPTIONS = [
+  { value: 'A_POSITIVE', label: 'A+' },
+  { value: 'A_NEGATIVE', label: 'A−' },
+  { value: 'B_POSITIVE', label: 'B+' },
+  { value: 'B_NEGATIVE', label: 'B−' },
+  { value: 'AB_POSITIVE', label: 'AB+' },
+  { value: 'AB_NEGATIVE', label: 'AB−' },
+  { value: 'O_POSITIVE', label: 'O+' },
+  { value: 'O_NEGATIVE', label: 'O−' },
+  { value: 'UNKNOWN', label: 'Unknown' },
+];
+
+/** Same plausibility bounds the API enforces (PHYSICAL_BOUNDS). */
+export const PHYSICAL_BOUNDS = {
+  heightCm: { min: 100, max: 250 },
+  weightKg: { min: 30, max: 250 },
+} as const;
+
+/** Upload slots, keyed as the API's submission check expects them. */
+export const SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENTS: {
+  key: string;
+  name: string;
+  description?: string;
+  /** `'passport'`: required only once a passport number is declared. */
+  required: boolean | 'passport';
+  accept?: string;
+}[] = [
+  {
+    key: 'photo',
+    name: 'Passport-size Photograph',
+    description: 'Recent colour photograph with a plain background.',
+    required: true,
+    accept: 'image/jpeg,image/png',
+  },
+  { key: 'nationalId', name: 'National ID (Fayda) or Kebele ID', required: true },
+  { key: 'passport', name: 'Passport Copy', required: 'passport' },
+  { key: 'graduation', name: 'Educational Certificate', required: false },
+  {
+    key: 'medical_certificate',
+    name: 'Medical Certificate',
+    description:
+      'Your STCW medical fitness certificate. Must match the certificate details entered above.',
+    required: true,
+  },
+  {
+    key: 'basic_training_evidence',
+    name: 'Basic Training Evidence',
+    description:
+      'One file containing evidence of all five basic training competencies: Personal Survival Techniques (PST), Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting (FPFF), Elementary First Aid (EFA), Personal Safety and Social Responsibility (PSSR), and Security Awareness.',
+    required: true,
+  },
+];
+
+export const SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_LABELS: Record<SeafarerRegistrationStatus, string> = {
+  DRAFT: 'Draft',
+  SUBMITTED: 'Submitted',
+  UNDER_REVIEW: 'Under Review',
+  RESUBMIT_REQUIRED: 'Corrections Requested',
+  APPROVED: 'Approved',
+  REJECTED: 'Rejected',
+};
+
+export const SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_STATUS_COLORS: Record<SeafarerRegistrationStatus, string> = {
+  DRAFT: 'gray',
+  SUBMITTED: 'blue',
+  UNDER_REVIEW: 'indigo',
+  RESUBMIT_REQUIRED: 'orange',
+  APPROVED: 'teal',
+  REJECTED: 'red',
+};
+
+/** Human label for each answer — the review table and the summary both use it. */
+export const SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_FIELD_LABELS: Record<keyof SeafarerRegistrationAnswers, string> = {
+  firstName: 'First Name',
+  middleName: 'Middle Name',
+  lastName: 'Last Name',
+  gender: 'Gender',
+  dateOfBirth: 'Date of Birth',
+  maritalStatus: 'Marital Status',
+  nationality: 'Nationality',
+  nationalIdNumber: 'National ID (Fayda) Number',
+  placeOfBirth: 'Place of Birth',
+  passportNumber: 'Passport Number',
+  passportExpiry: 'Passport Expiry Date',
+  department: 'Department',
+  locationId: 'Location',
+  permanentAddress: 'Permanent Address',
+  currentAddress: 'Current Address',
+  emergencyContactName: 'Full Name',
+  emergencyContactRelationship: 'Relationship',
+  emergencyContactPhone: 'Phone Number',
+  hairColor: 'Hair Colour',
+  eyeColor: 'Eye Colour',
+  heightCm: 'Height (cm)',
+  weightKg: 'Weight (kg)',
+  bloodType: 'Blood Type',
+  medicalCertificateNumber: 'Certificate Number',
+  medicalIssuerName: 'Issuing Clinic or Practitioner',
+  medicalIssueDate: 'Issue Date',
+  declarationAccepted: 'Declaration',
+};
+
+/**
+ * The answers grouped the way the wizard asks them — the summary on the
+ * portal and the review screen in the backoffice render the same sections.
+ */
+export const SEAFARER_REGISTRATION_SECTIONS: {
+  key: string;
+  title: string;
+  fields: (keyof SeafarerRegistrationAnswers)[];
+}[] = [
+  {
+    key: 'identityDetails',
+    title: 'Identity Details',
+    fields: ['firstName', 'middleName', 'lastName', 'gender', 'dateOfBirth', 'maritalStatus', 'nationality', 'nationalIdNumber'],
+  },
+  {
+    key: 'identity',
+    title: 'Identity',
+    fields: ['placeOfBirth', 'passportNumber', 'passportExpiry', 'department'],
+  },
+  {
+    key: 'address',
+    title: 'Address',
+    fields: ['locationId', 'permanentAddress', 'currentAddress'],
+  },
+  {
+    key: 'physicalCharacteristics',
+    title: 'Physical Characteristics',
+    fields: ['hairColor', 'eyeColor', 'heightCm', 'weightKg', 'bloodType'],
+  },
+  {
+    key: 'medicalCertificate',
+    title: 'Medical Certificate',
+    fields: ['medicalCertificateNumber', 'medicalIssuerName', 'medicalIssueDate'],
+  },
+  {
+    key: 'emergencyContact',
+    title: 'Emergency Contact',
+    fields: ['emergencyContactName', 'emergencyContactRelationship', 'emergencyContactPhone'],
+  },
+];
+
+const OPTION_LABELS: Partial<Record<keyof SeafarerRegistrationAnswers, { value: string; label: string }[]>> = {
+  gender: GENDER_OPTIONS,
+  maritalStatus: MARITAL_STATUS_OPTIONS,
+  department: DEPARTMENT_OPTIONS,
+  hairColor: HAIR_COLOR_OPTIONS,
+  eyeColor: EYE_COLOR_OPTIONS,
+  bloodType: BLOOD_TYPE_OPTIONS,
+};
+
+/** Display value for one answer: option label for enums, "—" when blank. */
+export function displaySeafarerAnswer(
+  field: keyof SeafarerRegistrationAnswers,
+  value: unknown,
+): string {
+  if (value === null || value === undefined || value === '') return '—';
+  if (typeof value === 'boolean') return value ? 'Yes' : 'No';
+  const options = OPTION_LABELS[field];
+  if (options) return options.find((o) => o.value === value)?.label ?? String(value);
+  return String(value);
+}
--- a/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer-registration/seafarer-registration.types.ts
+++ b/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer-registration/seafarer-registration.types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+import type { SeafarerDepartment } from '../seafarer/seafarer.types';
+
+export type SeafarerRegistrationStatus =
+  | 'DRAFT'
+  | 'SUBMITTED'
+  | 'UNDER_REVIEW'
+  | 'RESUBMIT_REQUIRED'
+  | 'APPROVED'
+  | 'REJECTED';
+
+export type Gender = 'MALE' | 'FEMALE';
+export type MaritalStatus = 'SINGLE' | 'MARRIED' | 'DIVORCED' | 'WIDOWED';
+export type HairColor = 'BLACK' | 'BROWN' | 'BLONDE' | 'RED' | 'GREY' | 'WHITE' | 'BALD' | 'OTHER';
+export type EyeColor = 'BROWN' | 'BLACK' | 'BLUE' | 'GREEN' | 'HAZEL' | 'GREY' | 'OTHER';
+export type BloodType =
+  | 'A_POSITIVE' | 'A_NEGATIVE' | 'B_POSITIVE' | 'B_NEGATIVE'
+  | 'AB_POSITIVE' | 'AB_NEGATIVE' | 'O_POSITIVE' | 'O_NEGATIVE' | 'UNKNOWN';
+
+/** Every answer the registration collects — one typed row, no form schema. */
+export interface SeafarerRegistrationAnswers {
+  firstName: string | null;
+  middleName: string | null;
+  lastName: string | null;
+  gender: Gender | null;
+  dateOfBirth: string | null;
+  maritalStatus: MaritalStatus | null;
+  /** Full demonym as the profile stores it ("Ethiopian"). */
+  nationality: string | null;
+  nationalIdNumber: string | null;
+  placeOfBirth: string | null;
+  passportNumber: string | null;
+  passportExpiry: string | null;
+  department: SeafarerDepartment | null;
+  locationId: string | null;
+  permanentAddress: string | null;
+  currentAddress: string | null;
+  emergencyContactName: string | null;
+  emergencyContactRelationship: string | null;
+  emergencyContactPhone: string | null;
+  hairColor: HairColor | null;
+  eyeColor: EyeColor | null;
+  heightCm: number | null;
+  weightKg: number | null;
+  bloodType: BloodType | null;
+  medicalCertificateNumber: string | null;
+  medicalIssuerName: string | null;
+  medicalIssueDate: string | null;
+  declarationAccepted: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface SeafarerRegistration extends SeafarerRegistrationAnswers {
+  id: string;
+  registrationNumber: string;
+  applicantUserId: string;
+  profileId: string | null;
+  status: SeafarerRegistrationStatus;
+  submittedAt: string | null;
+  assignedOfficerId: string | null;
+  claimedAt: string | null;
+  decidedAt: string | null;
+  decidedById: string | null;
+  /** What the officer asked to be fixed, or noted at approval. */
+  reviewRemark: string | null;
+  rejectionReason: string | null;
+  /** Stamped at approval. */
+  seafarerNumber: string | null;
+  createdAt: string;
+  updatedAt: string;
+}
+
+/** `null` clears a field; an absent key leaves it alone. */
+export type SaveSeafarerRegistration = Partial<SeafarerRegistrationAnswers>;
+
+export interface SeafarerRegistrationIssue {
+  kind: 'field' | 'document';
+  target: string;
+  message: string;
+}
--- a/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer/seafarer-api.ts
+++ b/libs/api/src/lib/features/seafarer/seafarer-api.ts
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ const listTag = (type: (typeof TAGS)[number]) => ({ type, id: 'LIST' }) as const

 /**
 * The seafarer's evidence shelf: sea-service records and medical
- * certificates (modules 05/06). Registration itself rides the licensing
- * endpoints — a SEAFARER_REGISTRATION application through `licensingApi`.
+ * certificates (modules 05/06). Registration itself lives in
+ * `seafarer-registration-api.ts`.
 */
 export const seafarerApi = baseApi
  .enhanceEndpoints({ addTagTypes: TAGS })