Travel insurance for foreign guests

Travel insurance for foreign guests and application for Schengen visa

A travel insurance for your foreign guest arrange here quickly and cheaply. When a foreign guest comes to the Netherlands with a Schengen visa for a short stay, you can arrange a medical travel insurance close to Europe.

get you one guest from abroad, for example friends, family or a partner? Then you have to take into account that they must also be insured against medical costs. We have an excellent solution for foreigners traveling to the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe: Travel Risk Insurance. This international medical insurance is especially for non-Dutch residents. Your guest from abroad is well insured from as little as € 2 per day and you can take out this insurance for him or her. Taking out a Travel Risk Insurance is simple and fast. You will have the policy at home the same day.

Travel insurance foreign guest

For a foreign guest who wants to visit the Netherlands or other Schengen countries, a number of rules apply, even if they do not require a visa. For example, foreigners may stay for a maximum of 90 days in a 180-day period and they must meet a number of conditions:

• The foreign guest must have a valid travel document (e.g. passport). The travel document must be valid for 3 months longer than the end of the free period.
• He or she may not pose a threat to public order, national security or the international relations of one of the Netherlands or the Schengen countries.
• The foreign guest has sufficient means of existence. This is at least an amount of €55. The foreign national must make his purpose of travel plausible. This can be done, for example, with an original letter of invitation from family members or acquaintances who are going to visit in the Netherlands. If the foreigner does not have an invitation letter, this can be demonstrated with an original form 'proof of sponsorship and/or private accommodation'. This form does not need to be legalized at the municipality.
• The foreign guest must be able to demonstrate that he has taken out medical insurance. Healthcare is not free in the Netherlands. Bills for hospitalization or doctor visits must be paid in full before departure from the Netherlands. The foreign guest must carry proof (policy of the medical insurance) to prove that he/she is insured.

Medical travel insurance for foreigners: Travel Risk Insurance

Foreign guests coming to the Netherlands cannot take out standard short-term travel insurance. Usually it is also not possible to take out travel insurance in the country of origin. For this group there is the Travel Risk Insurance, the international short-term medical insurance of Allianz Global Assistance. This special insurance is suitable for, among other things:

• Foreign guests who come to the Netherlands or Europe for family visits or tourism.
• A foreign partner visiting you.
• The application for a short-stay Schengen visa.

Please note: This insurance can only be taken out before leaving the foreigner's country of residence. If he or she is already traveling or has already arrived at the destination, you can no longer take out this medical travel insurance.

Frequently asked questions and answers about travel insurance for foreign guests

What is insured?

• SOS charges (including assistance, rescue and search).
• Medical expenses* (including hospital, specialist and doctors).
• Repatriation (including ambulance plane and transport of mortal remains).
• Burial or cremation costs and arrival of family.

* Medical costs are monetary compensation for doctors (fees) and costs of:

• hospitalization;
• operation and operating room use;
• prescribed X-rays and radioactive irradiations;
• prescription medications, bandages and massage;
• medically necessary transport, including any medically necessary evacuation and transport from a ski slope.

Your travel documents (purchase costs, laissez-passer, replacement visa or other official travel document), replacement clothing and/or toiletries and damage to accommodation is also insured. The following is also covered:

• illness, accident or missing person of the insured;
• death of the insured, illness, accident or death of the insured's family not traveling with him;
• death of a co-insured travel companion;
• damage to property of the insured in the country of residence;
• costs due to forced delay.

Premium medical insurance

Europe coverage	€ 2,-
Global coverage	€ 3,-
Winter/special sports	€ 1,15
Cancellation	5% of travel sum
Minimum premium	€ 11,50
Policy costs	€ 4,50
Premium per person per day. Up to and including 69 years.