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Do I need travel insurance? Travel insurance is a requirement for leaving Ukraine for most countries in the world. Older travellers do travel, often to visit family abroad, and they need a policy like anyone else — relatives holding cover in another country does not extend any protection to a visitor from Ukraine. Pensioners, as […]

Cover for Ukrainian citizens entering Europe operates under EU Council Decision 2004/17/EG on the medical insurance of travellers. It applies to the Schengen states that introduced visa-free entry for Ukrainian citizens in June 2017. Ukrainian citizens should therefore carry a travel policy with a limit of, preferably, no less than EUR 30,000. In principle border […]

The Law of Ukraine on the legal status of foreign nationals and stateless persons sets out the grounds for arranging temporary residence. The State Migration Service issues temporary residence permits where the foreign national applies within the required time. This covers, among others, people who have come to work in the branches, offices and representative […]

It matters a great deal. The policy bundled into a tour package is usually chosen on the agency’s margin, not on how the insurer settles claims, and it very often carries a deductible. Compare the sum insured, the deductible and the assistance company behind it before you accept it. Comparing quotes is free and takes […]

No. Standard travel and medical programmes are issued on your declaration alone. Bear in mind that chronic conditions are covered only in their acute, emergency form unless you buy a programme that specifically extends to them.

Yes, entirely. Send a photo of the passport, receive the signed policy by email as a PDF. Nothing has to be printed and nothing has to be signed by hand. You can get insurance online here from outside Ukraine as well as inside it.

The destination, the length of the trip, the age of the insured person, and the purpose of travel. EUR 30,000 is the working minimum for Schengen. For the United States, Canada, Israel or Japan, take considerably more — treatment costs there make a low limit close to meaningless.

Add the active or extreme sports option. Skiing, snowboarding, mountain hiking and diving are excluded from the standard programme, and a claim from the piste on a standard policy will be declined. The option also brings in mountain rescue and helicopter evacuation, which is the expensive part.