Buying travel insurance for someone who lives abroad?

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Pootle1
Pootle1 Posts: 32 Forumite
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I've bought tickets for a friend's family to fly from South Africa to the UK. I want to buy them travel insurance for their protection and to refund me in case of unforeseen cancellation.

Can I buy insurance for someone else? Is it best to use a UK or South African company?

thanks

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  • Voyager2002
    Voyager2002 Posts: 15,289 Forumite
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    Difficult one... for a start, do they have the appropriate visas? (Travel insurance does not cover visa problems.) Anyway, UK-based insurers would not touch them: there are two insurance companies that cover people based anywhere in the world, but I think that they would have to take out their own insurance and am sure that they, not you, would have to make a claim.
  • bradders1983
    bradders1983 Posts: 5,684 Forumite
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    edited 17 April 2019 at 2:13PM
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    Send them the money and let them buy it themselves from a South African country, given I assume they are not a UK resident or UK citizen.
  • Cisco001
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    i was checking travel insurance few days ago, one of the condition is the person need to be UK resident and trip start from UK.
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