Long-term residence visas , Czech Republic

Long-term visas – residence visas for more than 90 days.

The Czech Foreigners' Police issues a residence visa for more than 90 days upon the request of a foreigner who is planning to reside in the Czech Republic for a purpose requiring more than 3 months. The long-term residence visa is valid for 1 year and allows multiple entries into the Czech Republic.
A residence visa for more than 90 days can be issued for one purpose of residence (employment, study, entrepreneurial purposes, membership in a legal entity´s statutory body, maintaining family ties with a Czech or foreign citizen , health reasons or other purpose).
Each purpose of residence indicated on the application form must be submitted with the required documents.


Procedure for issuing a residence visa for more than 90 days

• The application for a visa along with all the required documents in person at the Embassy or Consulate of the Czech Republic. The application form available at the Embassy must be used. Download the example here.
• The Foreigners’ Police Office in the Czech Republic decides on the application. The Czech Embassy or Consulate then issues the visa to the foreigner. The visa is affixed to the travel document / passport.
• The visa must be picked up at the same Czech Embassy or Consulate where the application was filed.
• The visa application may take up to 120 days, but it usually takes 6 to 8 weeks.

Visa for more than 90 days is marked as “type D”.


Residence visa for more than 90 days for the purpose of employment

The application (example) must include the following:

a) a travel document/passport valid for the period of residence;
b) 2 photographs (4.5 x 3.5 cm);
c) a document confirming purpose of residence - a notarized copy of a work permit issued by a Labor Office in the Czech Republic;
d) documents on the provision of accommodation for the time of residence on Czech territory –
This document can be a written statement by a private or legal entity stating that accommodation will be ensured
- sublease contract if the foreigner rents a property
- confirmation of accommodation from a landlord, hotel or other accommodation facility
- an original or notarized copy of an extract from the Czech real-estate register

e) an extract from the Czech Criminal Records Registeran extract
(the application form for this extract, which is available at the Embassy or Consulate, may be filed there – this application form must be accompanied by an original of the foreigner´s birth certificate or a notarized copy of a birth certificate and a valid travel document, usually a passport);

Additional documents:
an extract from the Criminal Records Register or similar document from the country of which the foreigner is a citizen (or an affidavit from the foreigner if the country does not issue such reports) or from the country in which the foreigner has resided during the last 3 years continually for longer than 6 months.
In some cases medical check-up report stating that he/she does not suffer from serious illness.


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