Health Insurance Confirmation for International Master's Enrollment

[Satyarth]

Dear sir/madam,

I am an incoming international student for the Winter Semester 2025/26 and have been admitted to the international Master's program (Physics).

Upon completing my enrollment, I saw this part on the international enrollment checklist (https://www.uni-hamburg.de/campuscenter ... tional.pdf)

"Note on health insurance
In order to be enrolled, you must either have statutory health insurance or obtain
exemption from insurance through a state health insurance agency.
Your status (insured or exempt) is transmitted to the universities by the state health
insurance agencies via an electronic procedure. Thus, once you receive an acceptance letter,
contact a public health insurance provider and have yourself insured or exempted so that
Universität Hamburg can be notified about your insurance status. However, this notification
can also be made after the end of your enrollment deadline. As long as your insurance status
is not reported to Universität Hamburg, you will not be enrolled and therefore will not
receive semester documents.
Further information, in particular about exemption, is provided here: www.unihamburg.de/kven."

Upon clicking the link at the end, which led me to this page (https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/campuscen ... rsicherung), I saw this-

"Information for international students
Students insured in a European country are exempt from the insurance obligation as a rule. Contact a German public health insurance provider to have the exemption confirmed.
Travel health insurance does not provide sufficient coverage for studies in Germany. Therefore, do not take out travel health insurance for the duration of your stay.
Please make sure that your health insurance covers all health risks, as high treatment costs apply, which you have to bear if not covered by your insurance. For inquiries concerning health insurance coverage in Germany, please contact the Counselling Center for Social & International Affairs (BeSI) at the Studierendenwerk Hamburg.
International students who can take out valid insurance only once they are in Germany can notify us accordingly after they arrive.
If you need proof of health insurance to apply for a visa, you can take out a provisional policy to cover the first 3 months of your stay. Once you arrive in Hamburg, you then take out health insurance for the duration of your studies. Please note the information on health insurance in our leaflet To-dos for New Students (PDF).
See https://www.hamburg.com/newcomers/study ... insurance/ for more information about health insurance for international students.
NB: Any type of health insurance that is not provided by a German public health insurance provider must be reviewed by a public health provider. If your health insurance policy provides sufficient coverage for the duration of your studies in Germany, any German public health provider can notify us of your exemption from the public health insurance obligation."

I understand from the checklist and health insurance guidelines that international students can take out valid health insurance after arriving in Germany and notify the university accordingly.

However, since the enrollment deadline (4 June) is fast approaching, I would like to confirm that no action is currently required on my part regarding health insurance in order to complete my enrollment successfully.

Thanks and regards

[Campus-Center - BK]

Dear Satyarth,

I understand from the checklist and health insurance guidelines that international students can take out valid health insurance after arriving in Germany and notify the university accordingly.

This is correct - the proof of health insurance is not part of the enrollment procedure till June 4.

Best regards,
BK