Travel insurance for working in Canada with pre existing medical conditions

Suejw

Help !!

My son is going on a ski instructor course in Canada for 7 weeks and then he is hoping to work there until the end of the season. He has his work permit and visa, valid for 2 years.

He is trying to find travel insurance to cover:
Winter sports packag
5 months cover
Ability to renew the insurance if he decides to stay on
Cover to repay the course fee if he should unfortunately get injured and not complete the course
Additional personal effects cover for camera, skis etc
But the main issue is his pre existing medical conditions - Epilepsy, Adrenal cortisol deficiency and a previous subdural haematoma. The only quotes he has had so far are for £2,500.

Any help would be appreciated

Regards
Sue

PrivateClients

Sue,

I don't know if medical conditions are accepted but a young lady I know is due to leave for Canada in November on a two year visa and asked me to check her travel insurance to see if it looked okay.

She purchased a 2 year IEC policy from True traveller. She paid about £2,000 for the 2 year policy.

She is going straight into a job with a contract already in place at the ski chalet and leaves a fairly decent job in London so the cost was not an issue.

She took for the whole period because, as their website says, apparently it is a visa condition to have the insurance for the duration of the visa or (as I understand it) at least the period up until a return flight is due to leave Canada. I don't know if there would really be an issue with immigration in Canada if cover was only held for 5 months, just because you had no return flight booked, but travel forums might be a better place to go.

Might be worth contacting TrueTraveller for some more advice and a quote. Although I don't know a lot about them or their policy so please carry out your own research into the Company.

Best of luck.

OnanTheBarbarian

Although my circumstances of travel and time at the other end are different to your son, I recently got what I feel is a good deal from a brokers called Insure With https://www.insurancewith.com/

They specialise in travel insurance for people with pre-existing medical conditions.

I have advanced cancer and am on lifelong chemo treatment, but an annual policy with all conditions declared and only excluding Mexico, the annual premium was around £250.00 for me and my wife.

They are aware of a trip to USA in December (which was the main point of taking out the cover)

best to call them rather than do the online quotation.