Convenio especial
Dec 18th 2017 | 6:10 pm
#16
Just Joined
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 2
Re: Convenio especial
Just completed the Convenio Especial process in AndalucÃa. Residencia (well, being allowed to stay) card more than 12 months since issue (even a day over!), NIE, Padron showing you live at an address within the Autonomous Community you want the Convenio to apply to (Just a 'fresh one', that's all, no historics required) and the DWP letter stating you are cast adrift from UK NHS rights. Passport Copies, and more copies of anything you have supplied so far that you think they will need (Spanish systems, eh?) and Bobs your Uncle. They write to you with the terms and conditions, you make your first payment by Bank Transfer with proof of payment returned with the T and C's signed form. Cards arrived within 21 days, together with NHSS, INSS, numbers and details of your allocated Doctor / Surgery. I can make it sound more difficult if you like, but it was quite easy when we found the right 'Department' locally.
NOT the INSS office they have NIL to do with the CE here, start off at the local Health Centre.....bigger the better!
No mention of Fiscal residence (as yet I suppose) when we applied, but we are anyway! All transfers to pay monthly HAVE to come from a Spanish Bank account.
Good Luck and don't forget that once you get the letter from the DWP, you are finished with Healthcare in the UK and your records updated! Also to remember that there is NO EHIC attached to the CE so its Travel Insurance to cover UK visits (unless you are over 65), and you have to pay for all prescriptions (unless and 'in patient') and any NON emergency Hospital Transport.
Go for it!
NOT the INSS office they have NIL to do with the CE here, start off at the local Health Centre.....bigger the better!
No mention of Fiscal residence (as yet I suppose) when we applied, but we are anyway! All transfers to pay monthly HAVE to come from a Spanish Bank account.
Good Luck and don't forget that once you get the letter from the DWP, you are finished with Healthcare in the UK and your records updated! Also to remember that there is NO EHIC attached to the CE so its Travel Insurance to cover UK visits (unless you are over 65), and you have to pay for all prescriptions (unless and 'in patient') and any NON emergency Hospital Transport.
Go for it!
Dec 18th 2017 | 8:55 pm
#17
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 549
From: Granada Province
Re: Convenio especial
Good luck, get on it!
Dec 19th 2017 | 4:46 am
#18
Just Joined
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 2
Re: Convenio especial
Thanks...
I’ll get on it in the morning...
Luckily enough it’s just me 😉ðŸ‘ðŸ¼
I’ll get on it in the morning...
Luckily enough it’s just me 😉ðŸ‘ðŸ¼
Dec 19th 2017 | 8:42 am
#19
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Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 15,149
From: Costa Valencia
Re: Convenio especial
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