Student sickness insurance and registration certificate

[hraban]

Hello,
I've heard that those people who apply after coming to the UK, studying and then working do not need their period of study covered with a sickness insurance, given they applied for a registration certificate with Home Office in the past. I vaguely remember though that only certificates issued before a specific date make you exempt from the insurance requirement.

I've got a 3 month gap in insurance cover during my student days, and I believe that renders everything before the gap as not qualifying period. I recently found a registration certificate though, dated November 2011. Could this be a solution for me?

Thanks a lot

[salmintin]

There is no CSI requirement for students who received a yellow registration certificate before 20 June 2011.

Yours seems to have been issued after that date, so you probably were not exempt from CSI.

[noajthan]

Ref https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... issued.pdf

[hraban]

Thanks a lot. Seems this one is a pass then, and I will just have to sit and hope for brexIt not to happen. After 8 years in the country