If you experience a life event, like getting married or having a baby, you may qualify for a Special Enrollment Period to enroll in coverage through Virginia's Insurance Marketplace outside of Open Enrollment. During this process, you may be asked to provide documents to confirm the events that make you eligible. If your eligibility results don't say you need to provide documents, you don't have to. Simply pick a plan and enroll.
If your eligibility results say you have to provide documents, you should do so as soon as possible after you pick a plan. This will prevent a delay in your coverage starting. Follow the instructions on your Virginia's Insurance Marketplace notice for what documents to submit and how to submit them.
If additional information is needed to verify eligibility for a Special Enrollment Period, Virginia's Insurance Marketplace will send a "Data Matching Issue (DMI)" notice to your secure inbox and will request information. Consumers will have a 90 day Reasonable Opportunity Period to provide documentation to resolve the DMI. More information can be found here.
No matter if you need to submit documents to confirm a Special Enrollment Period, or not, you have 60 days from the time of the event to enroll in coverage.