diff --git a/apps/portal/src/app/router.tsx b/apps/portal/src/app/router.tsx
index afba9326f..5692b1187 100644
--- a/apps/portal/src/app/router.tsx
+++ b/apps/portal/src/app/router.tsx
@@ -155,12 +155,14 @@ export const router = createBrowserRouter([
       // Seafarer
       {
         path: "/seafarer-registration",
+        // No profile gate: this wizard asks for the personal, identity and
+        // contact details itself across its four steps, so sending the
+        // applicant to /profile first made the approved form unreachable —
+        // they were bounced out before ever seeing it.
         element: (
-          <RequireSeafarerProfile>
-            <RequirePermission anyOf={[P.APPLY_SEAFARER_REGISTRATION]}>
-              <SeafarerRegistrationPage />
-            </RequirePermission>
-          </RequireSeafarerProfile>
+          <RequirePermission anyOf={[P.APPLY_SEAFARER_REGISTRATION]}>
+            <SeafarerRegistrationPage />
+          </RequirePermission>
         ),
       },
       {