TAS ChinaBenefits
Twelve areas of benefit.
Your membership covers twelve areas of everyday life, from the flight home to the last journey. Every programme on this page is marked in one of two ways: with your member card, or free to everyone.
- With your member cardProgrammes your membership opens to you.
- Free to everyoneOpen to all, with or without a card.
1Travel
Travel home and travel anywhere
The road home is the first thing a family abroad plans and the last thing it gives up. We negotiate for the routes Chinese families actually fly, in the weeks they actually travel, and for every journey in between.
Spring Festival family fares
Fares for the holiday routes home, secured for members ahead of the seasonal rush.
With your member cardSummer and Qingming travel
Seats for the school holidays and for the journeys of remembrance.
With your member cardFlights for visiting parents
Travel arranged for parents who come to stay, with assistance through the airport for elders.
With your member cardOnward connections
Rail and domestic connections from the gateway airport to the home town.
With your member cardStudent travel
Flexible tickets for term dates, with luggage allowances that suit a move.
With your member cardUrgent family travel
Help finding a seat at short notice when a family emergency calls you home.
With your member cardTravel orientation
Plain guides to transit rules, baggage and documents for journeys with several legs.
Free to everyone
2Money
Sending money home
Supporting parents, paying a mortgage at home, sending a red envelope at the New Year: money moves in both directions across a Chinese family’s life. We arrange transfers through regulated providers and guide members through the rules on either side.
Family transfers
Regular transfers to parents and relatives, through regulated providers.
With your member cardRed-envelope and festival gifts
Gifts of money for Spring Festival, weddings and birthdays, arriving on the day.
With your member cardTuition and rent payments
Paying a university or a landlord in another currency, with a record you can keep.
With your member cardThe two-currency household
Guidance on holding and moving money between two countries, within the rules of both.
With your member cardPayments for family businesses
Cross-border payment services for shops, restaurants and traders.
With your member cardSafe-transfer guide
How to check that a transfer service is regulated before you use it.
Free to everyone
3Phone
Phone, internet and staying reachable
A family that lives in three time zones lives on its phones. We secure plans that keep the family in one conversation, and we guide members on keeping a home number alive while they are away.
Family mobile plans
Plans for the household abroad, with data shared between its members.
With your member cardCalls and data to China
International calling and data that reach parents and grandparents.
With your member cardRoaming for the journey home
Service that works from the moment you land.
With your member cardKeeping your home number
Guidance on keeping a home-country number active for banking codes and family.
With your member cardStudent starter connection
A phone plan and home internet arranged in a student’s first week.
With your member cardHome internet
Broadband for the household, for study, work and long video calls.
With your member card
4Health
Health, dental and vision
Health systems differ more than any other part of life abroad, and they are hardest to learn when you are ill. Your card opens health, dental and vision programmes where you live, and we arrange cover for parents who come to stay.
Health programme for members
Access to health services where you live, arranged through licensed providers.
With your member cardDental care
Check-ups and treatment through participating dental practices.
With your member cardVision care
Eye tests and glasses for adults and children.
With your member cardMedical cover for visiting parents
Travel medical cover for parents’ stays abroad, through licensed providers.
With your member cardCare in Chinese
Help finding doctors and clinics that work in Mandarin or Cantonese.
With your member cardWell-being support
Confidential support in Chinese for students and families under strain.
With your member cardHealthcare registration guide
How to register with a doctor, and how care is paid for where you live.
Free to everyone
5Pharmacy
Pharmacy
A prescription written in one country is not always filled in another, and familiar medicines carry unfamiliar names. We arrange pharmacy programmes for members and guide families through travelling with medication.
Prescription programme
Member arrangements at participating pharmacies.
With your member cardEveryday pharmacy
Medicines without prescription and health essentials for the household.
With your member cardMedicines for visiting parents
Guidance on continuing a parent’s medication through a long stay abroad.
With your member cardTravelling with medication
What to carry and declare when you fly with prescription medicines.
Free to everyoneMedicine names across borders
How to find the local equivalent of a medicine you know from home.
Free to everyone
6Insurance
Insurance through licensed providers
Insurance is offered to members through licensed insurers in the place where each member lives. Membership itself is not insurance, and it is the insurer, never TAS China, that decides every policy and every claim.
Life insurance
Cover for the family that depends on you, through licensed insurers.
With your member cardFinal-expense cover
Cover for funeral and repatriation costs, so that the family is not left to find them.
With your member cardTravel insurance
Cover for journeys home and abroad, including for parents who travel.
With your member cardHome and contents
Cover for the home you rent or own.
With your member cardMotor insurance
Cover for drivers building a record in a new country.
With your member cardStudent cover
Cover suited to a student’s housing, belongings and travel.
With your member cardReading a policy
A plain guide to the terms that matter before you sign.
Free to everyone
7Banking
Banking, savings and credit-building
A good name at the bank at home counts for nothing on the first day abroad. We guide members to a first account, a credit history built from zero and a place to save, and we refer them to qualified professionals when two tax systems meet.
First bank account
An account opened in your first weeks, with guidance on the documents banks ask for.
With your member cardCredit-building
A path from no record at all to a sound credit history.
With your member cardSavings
Savings accounts for the household and for a child’s education.
With your member cardHome-buying orientation
Referrals to qualified mortgage and property professionals.
With your member cardBanking for family businesses
Accounts and payment services for shops, restaurants and traders.
With your member cardTax-time referrals
Referrals to qualified tax professionals who understand income and family in two countries.
With your member cardScam Watch
Warnings on the frauds that target people far from home, and how to check each one.
Free to everyone
8Documents
Legal and document help
We do not give legal or immigration advice. We refer members to qualified professionals, and we explain, free to everyone, how documents move between two systems.
Lawyer referrals
Referrals to qualified lawyers for family, property, employment and business matters.
With your member cardNotarisation and authentication
Guidance on having documents notarised and authenticated for use in another country.
With your member cardCertified translation
Translation of certificates, transcripts and contracts by qualified translators.
With your member cardFamily documents
Guidance on birth, marriage and inheritance papers that must be recognised in two places.
With your member cardConsular Desk
How to reach your consulate, renew documents and book appointments.
Free to everyoneDocument guides
Step-by-step guides to the papers each system asks of a newcomer.
Free to everyone
9Work
Jobs, skills and recognition of qualifications
A degree earned in one country and a career interrupted by a move: it is the common story of the first generation abroad. We guide members through recognition of what they already know, and towards work that uses it.
Credential assessment support
Guidance on having degrees and professional licences assessed and recognised.
With your member cardProfessional licensing pathways
Orientation for engineers, nurses, doctors, accountants and teachers returning to their professions.
With your member cardLanguage for work
English and local-language courses for the workplace.
With your member cardCareer introductions
Introductions through the alumni associations and chambers of the network.
With your member cardFrom study to work
Orientation for graduates moving from a student’s life to employment.
With your member cardStarting a business
Orientation on registering and running a small business abroad.
With your member card
10Everyday
Everyday savings
The weekly shop, the tank of fuel, the family dinner for twelve. We negotiate with the grocers, restaurants and shops that Chinese households use most, so that membership is felt in ordinary life.
Groceries
Member arrangements with supermarkets and Asian grocers.
With your member cardRestaurants and banquets
Arrangements for family meals, festival dinners and banquets.
With your member cardFuel and motoring
Arrangements for fuel, servicing and roadside help.
With your member cardHome and furnishing
Arrangements for setting up a first home abroad.
With your member cardFestival shopping
Arrangements for Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn gifts.
With your member cardParcels home
Arrangements for sending parcels and gifts to family.
With your member card
11Family
Family, education and elder care across borders
A Chinese family abroad is usually raising children in one country and caring for parents in another. Membership serves the household at both ends.
Heritage-language classes
Chinese classes for children growing up abroad, at weekend schools and online.
With your member cardTutoring
Tutoring in school subjects, and preparation for examinations.
With your member cardUniversity guidance
Orientation on applications and admissions for families new to the system.
With your member cardSupport for study parents
Orientation and company for parents who accompany a child studying abroad.
With your member cardElder-care referrals at home
Referrals to care services for parents who remain at home.
With your member cardElders abroad
Activities, companionship and orientation for parents who have joined their children overseas.
With your member cardSchool enrolment guide
How school places, districts and language support work where you live.
Free to everyone
12Farewell
End of life and repatriation of remains
Every community abroad has known the telephone call that begins a collection. We guide the family, arrange the services through licensed providers, and stand with them through the association network.
Bereavement guidance
A person who guides the family through the first days, in Chinese.
With your member cardRepatriation of remains
Arrangements to bring a loved one home, through licensed providers.
With your member cardA dignified local farewell
Burial or cremation in keeping with the family’s customs, in the place where they lived.
With your member cardQingming remembrance
Arrangements for tending a grave or holding a remembrance from far away.
With your member cardEstate and document referrals
Referrals to qualified professionals for the papers that follow a death.
With your member cardThe Mutual Aid Compact
Associations standing together when a member dies far from home. It is not insurance.
Free to everyoneWhen a member dies far from home
A calm, step-by-step orientation for families and associations.
Free to everyone
For providers
Offer a programme to our members.
Airlines, banks, insurers, clinics, schools and shops that serve Chinese families well are welcome to bring a programme to the membership. TAS Member Services negotiates and runs every programme on behalf of the houses.
TAS Member ServicesQuestions
Questions about benefits.
How do I use a benefit?
Show your member card. Your card lives on your phone, and each programme sets out how it is used in the place where you live.
Do benefits differ from country to country?
Yes. Programmes are arranged where members live, so the providers differ from one country to another. Your card is the same everywhere, and every house of the family recognises it.
Does my family share my benefits?
Children under 18 are included on a parent’s membership. Each adult in the household holds their own membership, and membership is free.
Who provides the insurance?
Licensed insurers in the place where you live. Membership is not insurance, and the insurer decides every policy and every claim.
What is free to everyone?
The guides, Scam Watch, the Consular Desk, referrals to free local help and the association network. No card is needed for any of them.