Brenver26 wrote on Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:39pm:
Hi there, just read your post and signed up for this forum. We want to live in Almeria and to be able to go this year. We are both retired so have a UK pension and will apply for a non lucrative visa. The form to download SC - 01 is in Spanish, do we have to translate this? Also do we need privat...
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...e health insurance as have UK pension?
We are just starting out so this is all very new and at present all seems complicated.
Thanksfor this
As regards the form the one I've downloaded has English translation of questions to right hand side. So my assumption is English is ok. If you email the embassy nearest to you they will respond fairly quickly. I sent a list of questions and they replied within an hour.
As regards the pension and health insurance my understanding is once in receipt of state pension the health care is reciprocal and therefore you do not need to purchase private insurance.
Good luck.