Seeking advice on visa and health insurance

taylorfamilycontact

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Member since 26 February 2023

taylorfamilycontact

26 February 2023 12:29:44

taylorfamilycontact

26 February 2023 12:29:44

I am British with professional qualifications in Education. My wife is Finnish and we formerly lived in Germany where I worked for 5 years (Pre-Brexit); we now wish to return in October when my contract in the Netherlands concludes. I have lived and worked in seven countries which complicates matters. As a British freelancer with this background finding out which visa is needed and what is required has not been easy. Therefore, I seek someone to help me with this and with health insurance. If free advice is available that would be great. However, I suspect I might need a professional as my situation is a little unusual. In the latter case, I would hope to find help at reasonable cost.

TominStuttgart

Germany Expert

Member since 19 March 2012

Stuttgart

TominStuttgart

26 February 2023 16:05:10

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TominStuttgart

26 February 2023 16:05:10

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Stuttgart

Not really complicated because having worked in lots of countries is irrelevant. Your wife is Finnish, which belongs to the EU and Schengen. It should be pretty straight forward to get a family reunion visa - unless you have a problem like a serious criminal record or belong to a criminal or terrorist organization. On such a visa you have the right to work even freelancing.

Since you lived in Germany before then you can contact your previous insurance company for a start.

And one rarely needs to pay for help with such things. For some it is complicated if neither partner speaks German but one assumes you know enough after 5 years spent in the country. The issues and offical-dom you will have to deal with are not significantly different than what you would have had to deal with on your previous stay; although post-Brexit your status is changed. But immigrating as a spouse of an EU citizen is not a problem, millions have the same situation.

taylorfamilycontact

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Member since 26 February 2023

taylorfamilycontact

28 February 2023 21:51:10

taylorfamilycontact

28 February 2023 21:51:10

Many thanks.

Good to know a reunion visa will be sufficient for freelance work.

Maybe you also know about health insurance? In contact with a health insurance company to sign up, it got complicated. As I have pensions from multiple countries the company wanted some information from each. I had shown my pension income but they wanted some information about health care related to pensions. The word ‘Zuschuss' was mentioned but it was unclear what I needed to get. Any ideas?

Best regards

Simon

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