Arrive a UCR

This section of the guidance covers how to record the arrival of a UCR that has already been registered in Cargoes.

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This section of the guidance covers how to record the arrival of a UCR that has already been registered in Cargoes. This should be completed on confirmation that the consignment has physically arrived at the port of departure. The arrival of the UCR will change the customs entry status from prelodged to arrival which instigates route code allocation by HMRC.

How to record the arrival of a UCR

This should be completed on confirmation that the consignment has physically arrived at the port of departure. The arrival of the UCR will change the customs entry status from pre-lodged to arrived which instigates route code allocation by HMRC.

Multiple UCR’s can be marked as ARRIVED at the same time. Refer to section ARRIVE MULTIPLE UCRS for more instructions.

Refer to UCR SEARCH to find the UCR that you wish to mark as arrived.

Once you have found the relevant UCR either via Export Lite Voyage search or the Export Lite UCR search, you can either arrive the UCR directly or view the UCR details before marking as arrived.

Option 1 - To arrive the UCR directly, click on the right of the UCR line and select ARRIVE UCR from the drop down menu.

Manage Export Lite Voyage - Selecting Arrive UCR or selecting UCR row

Option 2 -To view the UCR details before arriving, click anywhere on the UCR row to open the Manage Export Lite UCR page.

From the Left Hand Navigation, select UCR Status.

UCR Status - Left Hand Navigation

Select the UCR status by clicking and selecting ARRIVED from the drop down menu.

UCR Status - Select arrived

With both options, a pop up will appear to confirm that you want to arrive the UCR. Next click on the calendar iconthen select the date and approximate time the UCR consignment arrived and select to validate.

Once completed, click YES to proceed or NO to discard any changes.

Select UCR time of arrival and Yes to proceed

Once saved, you will see a notification at the top of the page confirming the UCR# has been successfully arrived.

Notification - UCR sucessfully arrived.
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