Your Portuguese health insurance provider should have issued you with an EHIC long ago already, as you would need it for any short trip abroad (within the EU), for example on holidays or business trips. As soon as you have registered yourself with the Dutch authorities as actually living there, you...

Thank you all for the informed replies. Regrading the issue of health insurance/coverage. My spouse and I are both covered at the moment by the Portuguese health system. To move to the Netherlands and take up residency will we need to take out a form of private insurance? Can we apply for the Europe...

Hello, I have what I see as a very simple question/scenario, but the more I research and read about the topic the more confused/worried/skeptical I get. When I read the pamphlets put out by the EU on 2004/38 it seems very simple, but then when I talk to people in various embassies, online, read in f...