DigitalGhost

We are planning a short landing trip for later this year. The trip won't be longer than a few days and we will have return tickets etc.

Would we be OK just doing this on a normal global travel insurance program? We normally just get an annual travel insurance package to cover short trips abroad for a couple (up to 1 month in length) and would ideally just like to use that.

I would get another separate one to cover our first 3 months of residency if/when we actually moved there.

Thanks in advance.

mikelincs

That should be OK, your current cover covers short visits/vacations, it would NOT cover when you moved there as it requires UK residency.

DigitalGhost

Yeah I know that, that's OK, thanks.

I'm just trying to make sure that immigration wouldn't have a problem with it as we would need to land that weekend really. I think it would be fairly obvious that we weren't immigrating that weekend though as we would have return plane tickets back to Europe and only a small suitcase full of clothes between us.

We usually get a couples annual travel insurance policy that covers Asia every year but I was planning on upgrading that to a North America inclusive policy for this year especially since it only costs an extra £7 anyway.

J-A-UK

Sounds good - Do risk not having insurance ........ Just my opinion

Hurlabrick

We did much the same thing, a landing trip in April. Covered that with normal UK travel insurance as it complied with all the conditions and we were still considered resident in the UK at that stage (we simply activated the CoPR is all - still UK tax payers etc.).