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Dubai will make checkup insurance compulsory for exile, despite missing a self-imposed deadline for Jan 2008.

The state with 1.2 1000000 expatriates, is the biggest draw for foreign workers in the United Arab Emirates.

Remaining UAE members are expected to fall in with a Federal soldier scheme, which will mean every exile in any of the UEA states must have insurance. Other center East state are expected to bring in similar compulsion.

This will mean that in each state or state that insurers and brokers will have to be authorised to do concern there and offer wellness insurance.

The days of any international health insurance company being able to offer UK exile cover for about any state in the world are disappearance.

In Dubai, take up of insurance is expected to be progressive tense, rather than on one date. Exile will have to show a cover certification with a registered insurer when they apply for visa reclamation every three years.

Foreign insurers will need an accredited local spouse to trade.

Cigna, Allianz, Bupa International, Goodhealth and Expacare have local spouse, but other well-known international wellness insurers will either have to seek local partnerships and accreditation, or not offer cover there. Sadly, history shows us that there will necessarily be insurers and brokers offering cover to UK exile without mandate, claiming either wilfully or ignorantly that being authorised in the UK is adequate.

Several center East state seek to control who offering insurance in their bound so are or will limit sales to international insurers with a local spouse or to a licensed homegrown supplier. As other Gulf states move towards compulsory insurance for their foreign workforces there is little doubt they will also require local partnerships for international insurers.