The basic two important mandatory medical health requirements to consider when applying for spanish Non Lucrative Visas are the following:

1. To have unlimited access to spanish healthcare system, in Spain.
2. To be free of any of the deseases listed under the International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR). The deseases listed here are such that constitute a public health emergency of international concern.

1. Unlimited access to spanish healthcare system for spanish Non Lucrative Visas, as health requirements for Spanish Non Lucrative Visa

A general requirement for all applicants to any type of spanish Visa o spanish Residence Permit that allows you to reside in Spain is having access to the spanish healthcare system in an equivalent way to the service provided by the Spanish State to spanish citizens.

That is, no country wants to receive immigrants who do not have their health coverage insured, so that they do not become a burden on its public health system.

In general, again, for applicants to any type of spanish Visa o spanish Residence Permit, they may fulfil this requirement by:

• getting access to the public spanish healthcare system (spanish State provided healhcare), or
• taking a private healthcare insurance policy valid for spanish Visas o Residency Permits applications.

Getting access to the Public Spanish Healthcare System

This is undoubtedly your best option, as a way to comply with the health requirements for Spanish Non Lucrative Visas, because the Spanish public healthcare system offers a high quality service in general, allowing for much better healthcare than other countries with high standards of living can offer.

But only under certain conditions you will be able to apply for your Visa o Residency Permit and get public spanish (state) healthcare.

In general, most Non-LucrativeVisa applicants in Spain are not eligible for Spanish public health care. Only some countries with a health coverage agreement with Spain allow, for example, their pensioners to access the Spanish public health system, thus enjoying free Spanish public health care as residents in Spain, when they obtain their Spanish Non-Profit Visas, or at any later moment once they reside in Spain. For example, UK pensioners can get their UK S1 form to bring it to Spain in order to register in the spanish healthcare system, as well as, for example, Chilean citizens who are pensioners can bring their E/CHL-9 form issued by Fonasa.

Fortunately, the Spanish Goverment have changed the criteria and, nowadays, you may attach to your Non Lucrative Visa application your S1 form to fulfil the requirement of unlimited access to the spanish health care system. It was not like that short time before.

Spanish state (public) health system has high quality standards and it is considered even better than private health insurances when dealing with delicate health matters: Spanish Non Lucrative Visa health requirements.

At the Perez Parras Economists & Lawyers Firm we have successfully assisted many UK citizens, as well as citizens all over the world who were elegible for Spanish public healthcare system to bring their S1 forms and register them with the Spanish Administration.

Private healthcare insurance policy valid for spanish Visas o Residency Permits applications, as a way to meet the medical health requirements for Spanish Non Lucrative Visas

Many applicants to Spanish Non-Lucrative Visas are unable to access the Spanish public health system, and must therefore obtain private medical insurance which must be attached to their Spanish Non-Profit Visa application. Your private healthcare insurance policy must such that you get a service as if you would get under the public spanish healthcare system: without exclusions, excesses or copayments. Unfortunately, all Spanish Consulates all over the world don’t have the same criteria with respect to the private healthcare insurance polity you must take, so it is important that you work with experienced lawyers that know well about it.

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