Travel Insurance & Documents
Know what to protect. Know what to bring.
Work through the insurance choices, passport checks, and documents that can change how your trip goes.
Start with your destination for insurance planning, or go straight to the document or claim question in front of you.
The decision: Identify what you need to protect and what your journey requires. Then check the policy wording, travel documents, and supporting records before relying on an assumption.
Where are you going?
Put the insurance question in context.
Choose a country guide to work through the coverage questions relevant to your plans. Use the policy documents and current official entry guidance to verify the requirements for your own journey.
Ready to compare?
Compare trip insurance.
Use this form to compare trip insurance options for your travel plans. Check the covered cancellation reasons, benefit limits, exclusions, and eligibility of the policy you select.
Available plans depend on your residence, destination, age, dates, and eligibility. Review the policy wording, exclusions, deductibles, and limits before buying.
Before choosing a policy
Start with the question you need answered.
Use these guides to examine a specific concern before comparing or relying on cover.
When flexibility changes what you have at risk
What remains to protect if your flight is refundable?
Review the insurance question alongside the bookings and other arrangements for your trip.
Review insurance with a refundable flight →When disruption could mean extra expenses
What should you check about delay cover?
Use the guide to work through the policy questions and records to check when a flight delay affects the rest of your journey.
Understand the flight-delay coverage questions →When the concern is a missing or unusable document
How does the policy address a passport problem?
Check the guide for the distinctions to look for in the policy wording rather than assuming every document-related disruption is treated alike.
Review passport-related insurance questions →Ready to travel
Check the document before the departure day.
Start with the question that fits your situation, then verify the current rules with the relevant official source.
When you are checking the expiry date
Is the passport valid for this journey?
Review how to check passport validity against your destination and route.
Understand the passport-validity checks →When you are deciding which document to use
Passport card or passport book?
Use the comparison to identify which document questions to verify for your travel plans.
Compare passport card and book →When the passport has visible wear or damage
Does the passport condition need attention?
Work through the signs and next steps to check before relying on a damaged document.
Review damaged-passport concerns →When departure is getting closer
Would an expediting service help?
Compare what a service does with the process, timing, and eligibility you need to confirm through official channels.
Review passport-expediting options →If something goes wrong
Build the file around the question being asked.
Start with the claim-documentation guide, then use the focused guides when you need to resolve a particular proof gap.
When you are organizing the claim
What does each document help establish?
Use the documentation framework to organize the event, cause, expenses, and any refunds or other recoveries.
Organize the evidence for your claim →When the claim involves a flight disruption
What should you request from the airline?
Use the focused guide to check which written records may help document the disruption.
Review airline-delay documentation →When the insurer needs supporting documents
Which part of the file needs attention?
Read the insurer’s request alongside the guide and address the specific gap in the records.
Understand proof-of-loss documentation →When documentation is the stated issue
What should you review before resubmitting?
Start with the explanation in the decision and identify which records or questions you need to address.
Review a documentation-related denial →Before you go
Make the important records easy to find.
Keep your itinerary, booking confirmations, policy documents, emergency contacts, and required travel documents organized. Save the instructions you may need if your phone has no connection.
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