Visa insurance checklist before you apply

What you hold when the file is ready

Before you send a Ukraine visa application, settle three insurance points: the amount the visa rules name, the plan whose sum insured reaches it, and what to check on its certificate.

Take, as an illustration, six colleagues planning a five-day autumn stay in Vinnytsia, each filing a visa application of their own. Five days fit inside one policy, which runs for 3 to 180 days. Each of them can work through the seven points below with their own certificate before the six files go in.

By the time the six files go in, each colleague has read the amount the visa rule names and matched it against the plan whose sum insured reaches that figure. The dates on the policy are set to cover their own trip.

The amount the visa rule names

Paragraph 5(4) of Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 118 of 1 March 2017 names "a valid medical insurance policy covering expenses of at least 30,000 euros or the equivalent in another currency", unless legislation or an international treaty of Ukraine provides otherwise. The words in quotation marks are translated from the Ukrainian text. The resolution approves the Rules for issuing visas, and the paragraph sits in their list of documents submitted for a visa of any type.

Note: if you use a diplomatic or service passport, the same sub-paragraph does not apply the requirement to you.

The resolution was read in its edition of 21 May 2025, which was in force on 1 October 2026. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine repeats the amount on its visa information page: the policy should provide a minimum of €30,000 or equivalent coverage. On that page, the insurance proof is item 4 of the supporting documents, after the passport, the application form and the photograph. The page carries the same exemption for diplomatic and service passports.

The e-Visa page lists a health insurance policy with 30,000 euro coverage among the copies to upload. Both pages were checked on 1 October 2026, and both show a page date of 19 December 2019.

What to check before the certificate goes in

Check these seven points before you add the certificate to your file.

• Sum insured: look for at least €30,000, or the equivalent in another currency, on your certificate.
• Territory: the Ministry's visa information page asks for a policy that covers Ukraine, so check that Ukraine is within the cover of the policy you file.
• Dates: the same page asks for cover for the period of stay, and your policy prints a start and an end date, so choose dates that cover your whole stay.
• First planned trip: the visa information page lists short-term visas as single, double or multiple-entry. For a multiple-entry visa, the check under paragraph 5(4) is of a policy valid during the first planned trip, so test your dates against that trip.
• Holder: the visa information page asks for proof that you hold the policy or are entitled to benefit from it, so if someone else bought the policy for you, check that it covers you.
• Exceptions: the amount gives way to legislation or an international treaty of Ukraine, so ask the office handling your file whether one applies to you.
• Copy: for an e-Visa, keep your certificate as a file you can upload, because the e-Visa page lists a copy of the policy among the documents.

Which plan meets the amount

Extended matches the amount in paragraph 5(4) with its sum insured of €30,000. Standard, at 100,000 UAH (≈ €2,000), does not. Take the six colleagues again: each of them compares their own certificate with the same two figures.

If your nationality requires a visa, proof of medical cover is often part of the wider process. Choose the Extended plan: its certificate is the one visa files usually ask for.

• If your certificate shows €30,000, the amount matches, and your dates are the next line to read.
• If it shows 100,000 UAH (≈ €2,000), the amount falls short, so switch to Extended before you file.
• If your certificate states the sum insured in another currency, compare it with 30,000 euros, since paragraph 5(4) allows the equivalent in another currency.
• If you apply through the e-Visa page, upload a copy of your certificate.

Before you send the file

Put the policy in your file from the start. Article 11 of the Law of Ukraine On the Legal Status of Foreigners and Stateless Persons, No. 3773-VI, says a visa may be refused where there is no valid medical insurance policy and one can be arranged in the state where the application is filed. The visa rules list the same ground among the reasons for refusing a visa, in paragraph 28(6) of Resolution No. 118.

Before you send anything, read the amount and the dates on your certificate once more.

The Extended plan costs from €5.75 for 3 days, then €1.73 for each further day.