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Health Insurance in Israel for B1 Visa Holders
Living in Israel with a B1 partner visa comes with unique challenges, and one crucial aspect is obtaining health insurance. B1 partner visa holders (like any B visa holder) are not considered Israeli residents by the Israeli National Insurance Institution…
How the Israeli Judicial Overhaul Meets Mixed Couples
Guest Article by Max Sorin / Blog / Opinion Articles Unless you’ve been in a coma for the last seven months, you’ve probably noticed that Israel is going through turbulent times. Since the new government was elected and announced its…
Official: Utah “Zoom Marriages” Fully Recognized for Spouse Visa Procedures
Following the publication on our Facebook Page last week, about a recent legal development on the subject of Utah proxy marriages, we can now confirm that Utah “Zoom weddings” (conducted via video conferencing) have the same value as in-person weddings…
Future Mother on A5? Enough With Security Deposits at the Hospital!
If you are an A5 visa holder who is about to give birth in Israel (or your partner is), you probably heard about the standard procedure of having to make a security cheque of 15,000 NIS at the hospital after…
Giving Birth as an A5 Visa Holder: The Bureaucracy and Your Rights
Are you an international couple with a baby on the way? First of all – congratulations! We understand that giving birth in Israel as a foreigner, and dealing with everything that comes after, can feel overwhelming or even scary. But…
Discount Bank Policy Impacts ‘Foreign Residents’: AIC Advocates for Exemption of Partners of Israelis
In the last few months, AIC has gotten inquires about a series of notification letters sent by Discount Bank to some of its clients, notifying them about a new bank policy. As stated in their letters, the bank decided to…
Passport Marathon Impact Survey: 73% of Visa Meetings Canceled, Parliament Discussion Blows Up
Over the last two weeks, AIC conducted an impact survey on how the government’s ‘Passport Marathon’, and the shutdown of visa services all around the country, has affected the international couples community. The survey was conducted in preparation to a…
Israeli Citizenship for Partners of Israelis: Eligibility and Application
Getting Israeli citizenship is the FINAL step in the gradual partner visa process. If you’ve made it here, you and your partner have already spent years building your life in Israel with a partner visa – now, you’re in the…
Supreme Judge Yechiel Kasher: “The petition is theoretical. The potential damage of the outline is limited”.
AIC regrets to inform the community of international couples in Israel that our petition against the “Passport Marathon” outline, its implementation and its destructive outcomes – has been dismissed in limine. This last May 18th, AIC in collaboration with JIJ…
Read the Petition: AIC v. The Minister of Interior
On May 1st, the Minister of Interior and the Population Authority have published the “Passport Marathon” outline. From those publications we learned that PIBA’s intention was to shut down visa departments in the 4 biggest bureaus in Israel for a…
Reports: Activity of Visa Departments in Israel – May 2023
Following the closure of PIBA visa departments in several cities and automatic visa extension, AIC has collected dozens of testimonies about the activity of visa departments around Israel over the last week. Here is what we know so far. Please…
Protocol 5.2.0008 Update: Utah “Zoom Weddings” To Be Treated Same As Other Proxy Marriages
Protocol 5.2.0008 that determines the treatment of applications for status based on marriage to an Israeli citizen, was updated last week. The update to the protocol (which was quite significant) comes as a follow-up to the big update of the…