I'm expecting a child which will be born in the territory of the CR. How can I get insurance for it?
A child born to parents resident in the territory of the CR on the basis of residence permission
A child born to parents who are staying in the CR temporarily, on the basis of a so-called long-term visa, namely a visa for residence over 90 days
Children born to parents temporarily residing in the CR on the basis of a short-term visa (i.e. exit visa, transit visa, airport visa and visa for residence up to 90 days) or without a visa
A child born to a mother who is applying for asylum or has a residence visa for the purpose of sufferance according to asylum law
A child born to a mother who has gained asylum
What if my child is born handicapped? How is healthcare covered?

Health Insurance for Children of Foreign Nationals Born in the Territory of the CR

I'm expecting a child which will be born in the territory of the CR. How can I get insurance for it?

In this case look through the following situations and decide which applies to you: the conditions of the child's health insurance are governed by the type of residence which can be obtained for the child, if each parent has a different type of residence (i.e., e.g. one has residence permission, the other a visa for over 90 days) they can choose the basis for the residence of the child from the two possibilities, whichever is more beneficial for the child, one of the parents is a Czech citizen - it is necessary to ascertain whether the child will not become a Czech citizen. If so, its residence and thus health insurance falls under the regulations for the registration and records for the residence of citizens.

A child born to parents resident in the territory of the CR on the basis of residence permission:

If the parents with child wish to stay in the CR longer, they are required to submit an application for a residence permit to the immigration authorities within 60 days of the child's birth. In this case the residence is considered as permanent residence from the child's birth until legal maturity. The child, from birth, fulfils the conditions for participation in public health insurance. The state covers the child's premiums. Care of an infant in a maternity hospital should be fully covered by your insurer.

For the application you need to produce the child's travel documents and birth certificate. In the case of a legal representative, who is a foreign subject, the travel documents can be replaced by that person's travel documents, provided the child is recorded there.

A child born to parents who are staying in the CR temporarily, on the basis of a so-called long-term visa, namely a visa for residence over 90 days:

If the parents with child wish to further remain in the CR, they are required to submit an application for the same type of residence permit to the immigration authorities within 60 days of the child's birth; the purpose of the visa will be having a family here. Aside from the child's birth certificate and travel documents (see above), it is also necessary to submit a document of the child's health insurance. In this case it is necessary to conclude contractual insurance for the child with VZP. Care of the child in the maternity hospital usually needs to be paid, as VZP insures the child after a medical examination has been undertaken. The validity of the contract is not usually backdated to the child's birth.

This situation should change if the draft Act on the Health Insurance of Children of Foreign Nationals having Long-term Residence in the Czech Republic and amendments to related acts is adopted. This should come into force by the 1.1. 2004. This draft act will be debated by the organisational committee of the Lower House of Czech Parliament on 11.9. 2003 under reference 417.

Children born to parents temporarily residing in the CR on the basis of a short-term visa (i.e. exit visa, transit visa, airport visa and visa for residence up to 90 days) or without a visa:

If the parents and child travel abroad within 60 days of its birth the child's residence is automatically considered as temporary. Care of the child in the maternity ward is covered in the same way as in the previous point, i.e. the requirement to conclude contractual insurance for the child with VZP, unless the parents have a policy where something else is agreed.

WARNING!

If you do not keep the 60-day limit until the submission of the application for residence permission or visa over 90 days for the new-born child, and also do not travel out of the CR during the 60 days from its birth, the authorities can annul your residence permission or visa over 90 days. In decision-making the police look in particular at the suitability from the point of view of the effects on private and family life.

A sixty day period is considered as extension, unless submission of the application in this period was prevented for reasons outside your control. These reasons (e.g. illness) must be proven without delay by submitting an explanation to the police.

If you have residence permission its termination means your participation in public health insurance is also automatically terminated!!!!!

A child born to a mother who is applying for asylum or has a residence visa for the purpose of sufferance according to asylum law:

The state covers healthcare costs connected with the birth of the child.

A child born to a mother who has gained asylum:

A child born to a refugee has participation in public health insurance from the time when the asylum or another type of residence in the territory of the CR was granted according to laws on the residence of foreign nationals.

What if my child is born handicapped? How is healthcare covered?

In this case submit an application for residence permission for the child on humanitarian grounds within 60 days of the birth of the child (or later, if the child has already been granted a visa for over 90 days and the defect is established afterwards and is not covered by insurance). If you submit an application in the period of 60 days from the child's birth then, in the case of its positive settlement the residence of the child will be considered as permanent from its birth and care should be covered by the insurer to the full extent. In the case that you submit an application for a residence permit for a child for humanitarian reasons later than within 60 days from the child's birth, then if the application has a positive outcome, the child's residency is considered as permanent from the day when the decision on the residence permit acquired legal power.

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