Residency requires health insurance?

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by Solwriter

There is a thread here which looks into living in spain with a business registered abroad:
Living in Spain with UK-based business
It applies to someone with a UK-based business, but it does open up the subject of having a business elsewhere and not registering for autonomo.
(See Stravinsky's answers in particular).

I am referring to this because, as far as I can tell, expatrocks is only intending to spend a limited time in Spain before he moves on elsewhere.
So it might be useful - there again it might not.

yes, I'd forgotten about that - but until he has a resident visa he isn't supposed to work at all, really

& then from what kalohi said, when he gets his resident visa he might not actually have the freedom to move around as much as he wants/is planning to

[expatrocks]

your physical presence HERE means you are working HERE

So a person can't come to Spain on vacation and check in with the office or answer work-related email?

autónomo is self-employed National Insurance - it entitles you to state healthcare & goes towards an eventual state pension - if you are self-employed (even online with a company elsewhere) you have to register & pay - tax is on top of that

There's no way I'm paying Spain $18,000 over the next 5 years. I'll hardly ever be here.

I have a 'family member of an EU citizen' Spanish residency permit (OH is Spanish) which is good for 10 years. But one of the stipulations is that I can only leave Spain for 3 months at a time or the residency permit becomes null and void. So if you leave Spain to live someplace else and then return before your 5 years are up you might find that need to go through the residency process again.

I haven't heard about anything like that but who knows. They throw stuff at you when you least expect it. Finding someone who can answer questions about any of this is extremely rare but I'll ask the next time I do.

I have private health insurance with Cajasol Salud, and although I pay monthly it's an annual policy. And I have to give 2 months notice to cancel the policy. It wouldn't work for you.

I need to look into some sort of international health insurance policy I can keep.

[Solwriter]

Originally Posted by xabiachica

yes, I'd forgotten about that - but until he has a resident visa he isn't supposed to work at all, really

& then from what kalohi said, when he gets his resident visa he might not actually have the freedom to move around as much as he wants/is planning to

Yes, I know.
Catch 22.

[kalohi]

Originally Posted by kalohi

I have a 'family member of an EU citizen' Spanish residency permit (OH is Spanish) which is good for 10 years. But one of the stipulations is that I can only leave Spain for 3 months at a time or the residency permit becomes null and void. So if you leave Spain to live someplace else and then return before your 5 years are up you might find that need to go through the residency process again.
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I stand corrected. It's 6 months that you'd be allowed to leave, not 3. Straight from the webpage of the Ministerio del Interior: La vigencia de la tarjeta de residencia de familiar de ciudadano de la Unión caducará por las ausencias superiores a seis meses en un año. LINK

[expatrocks]

I stand corrected. It's 6 months that you'd be allowed to leave, not 3. Straight from the webpage of the Ministerio del Interior: La vigencia de la tarjeta de residencia de familiar de ciudadano de la Unión caducará por las ausencias superiores a seis meses en un año.

Wow. I should have checked with you guys a long time ago. At what point would they check my passport to see if I've been gone?

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by expatrocks

Wow. I should have checked with you guys a long time ago. At what point would they check my passport to see if I've been gone?

every time you come in & go out again.................

[Bfpijuan]

What about travel insurance? My husband and I have abbeygate, year round coverage for less than $200 a year.

[gus-lopez]

Originally Posted by xabiachica

every time you come in & go out again.................

Bit of a farce really as he can pop into France , Germany, holland , etc; & fly out /in from there & they'll still think he's here !

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by gus-lopez

Bit of a farce really as he can pop into France , Germany, holland , etc; & fly out /in from there & they'll still think he's here !

well there is that of course...............which would cause even more problems......

[expatrocks]

Bit of a farce really as he can pop into France , Germany, holland , etc; & fly out /in from there & they'll still think he's here !

Oh I like that.

well there is that of course...............which would cause even more problems......

What sort of problems?

Has anyone tried IMGlobal health insurance? Their "Patriot Travel Medical Insurance" can be activated in 10 minutes and proof of insurance documents are emailed so that would be perfect for my residency. Plus we could keep the insurance as we travel around.

http://www.imglobal.com/