How to Apply for the European Health Insurance Card in Social Security?

How to Apply for the European Health Insurance Card in Social Security?

Well, we can easily apply for a European Health Insurance Card in Social Security Portal.

The step-by-step process is mentioned below.

First of all, we have to open an Internet Browser and Search for “Social Security Portugal”.

We have to open the link “http://www.seg-social.pt/inicio”

as shown in the picture below.

We have to click on “Segurança Social Direta”.

Next, we have to provide our Social Security number and Password. We can click on “Entrar” to login.

If we do not have a Password for Social Security, we can learn how to get Social Security Password in the link below.

How to get Social Security Password?

Once we are logged in, we have to scroll to “Doença” menu.

We have to click on “Obter Cartão Europeu De Seguro De Doença".

Here, we have to click on "Iniciar Pedido" as shown in the picture below.

Now, we need to check our information and click on "Enviar Pedido" as shown in the picture below.

Next, we need to click on "OK" as shown in the picture.

We can see a confirmation message as shown in the picture below.

We have to click on "Ver Lista De Cartões" to see the list of the cards.

On this page, we need to click on "Comprovativo".

Here, we can see our details as shown in the picture below.

Next, we need to verify the Digital Signature.

If we do not know how to verify the Digital Signature in Adobe Acrobat Reader, we can check the link given below.

How to verify Digital Signature in Adobe Acrobat Reader?

We need to click on "Transferir" as shown in the picture below.

Now, we need to change the file name to "ComprovativoDePedidoDeCartãoEuropeu.pdf" and change the file type "Ficheiro ASPX (*.aspx)" to "Todos Os Ficheiros (*.*)".
Finally, we have to click on "Save" to save the document.