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andrzejewskil
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Joined: 12 Jul 2006
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Location: london/moscow
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 Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject: insurance requirements for business multi entry visa |
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hello,
certain online sources inform that some insurance is required for obtaining multi entry business visa. nothing like that is said on many other websites, rusemblon.org included.
could anybody who has gone through the visa obtaining process in london share their exerience as regards to this issue?
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DITTRICH
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Location: London UK
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Medical Insurance? Seriously, I have travelled to Russia many times and the London Embassy has never insisted on seeing any evidence of medical insurance - I have travelled on business and private visas to russia over the last 10 years and never had any insurance!
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garota-22
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| DITTRICH wrote: | Medical Insurance? Seriously, I have travelled to Russia many times and the London Embassy has never insisted on seeing any evidence of medical insurance - I have travelled on business and private visas to russia over the last 10 years and never had any insurance!
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But i am wondering.....in the visa form given by the embassy there is a question ..... what kind of health insurance do you have??? you put that you had health insurance even if you do not have it?? |
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DITTRICH
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Well, what do you think?!
Travel insurance is for your your piece of mind. If you step into the road and get run over by a ZIL truck, then health insurance would be useful - if only we could see into the future. However, one has to ask how many times people actually claim on their policies! Not very often, I suspect. I've been travelling about since 1980 as an adult and have never claimed on a policy. I do buy european breakdown cover for the car though.
Les |
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garota-22
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| DITTRICH wrote: | Well, what do you think?!
Travel insurance is for your your piece of mind. If you step into the road and get run over by a ZIL truck, then health insurance would be useful - if only we could see into the future. However, one has to ask how many times people actually claim on their policies! Not very often, I suspect. I've been travelling about since 1980 as an adult and have never claimed on a policy. I do buy european breakdown cover for the car though.
Les |
yeah...ok....but what i was trying to ask was, does the embassy ask for health insurance evidence? or maybe in the international police when you arrive in Russia? |
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surfguy
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twicker
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Location: Durham, NC
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Check your personal insurance policy: it may offer some coverage for out-of-country healthcare (assuming you have insurance). Then, on the off chance that someone *does* ask, you'll have it.
At the border, I do not believe that anyone will ask; at least, that was not on any of the lists of documents I've seen. Caveat lector, as always, seeing as how I'm not a visa lawyer.
If it will give you peace of mind, you can purchase special trip insurance. Since my health insurance would only reimburse me *after* I returned to the US, so I would have had to pay any expenses up-front, I went with such an insurer. The one I used (because my family knows one of the people who founded it, for full disclosure):
International SOS:
http://www.internationalsos.com
DITTRICH represents one end of the spectrum; if you're very comfortable with this particular risk (the risk that someone in the embassy will choose to ask about insurance, the risk that something will happen), then you can follow his path. If you're not comfortable with this particular risk (like myself), then you can follow the other path.
In the end, it's your choice. What level of documentation and health insurance risk are you comfortable with?
Poka i udachi! |
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garota-22
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks very much for all the help:) |
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