Far as I know some countries don’t even have applecare. For example Romania🤷🏻‍♀️ you’d have to change your country to another one, but then sending it to an apple store is going to be hard(considering there is no apple store in the country, like at all). Going to an IStyle, the romanian version of your local applestore(just a reseller, but they do everything an apple store would), is a hit or miss. It is a little different I guess, depending where OP is from🧍🏼