On October 15th 2026 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. CEST (Central European Summer Time, UTC+2), registration will take place to receive applications for a short-term Schengen visa, long-term visa, long-term residence permit and superlegalization for the term of November 2026.

ATTENTION! As of 1 October 2026, the following change has been introduced regarding appointment bookings for certain types of Schengen visas.

Applications for the purpose of professional sports (e.g. 1st and 2nd football leagues), business, culture, training/internships, and conference attendance:
The inviting entity on the Czech side (a Czech legal entity, sports club or its agent/representative, Czech company, organization, etc.) must send an email to abuja.consulate@mzv.gov.cz containing the names of the invited persons, the purpose of travel, and the travel dates. Based on this information, the applicant will be assigned an appointment within approximately two weeks, subject to the capacity of the office.

Applications are accepted on a continuous basis (i.e. not only on the registration day).

Please note that appointments will be assigned ONLY on the basis of an email request from the Czech entity.

For all other visa categories, please follow the instructions below to book an appointment for submitting your application.

 

1. Send a registration email to the following email address* on the above-mentioned date at the above-mentioned time for the purpose of:

- Schengen visa: Abuja.Schengen.Visa@mzv.gov.cz

Note: Applies to Schengen visa applications for tourism, visits to family or friends, airport transit, medical treatment, seasonal employment, and applications for the purposes mentioned in the previous paragraph that do not meet the requirement of having an inviting entity on the Czech side.

- Superlegalization: Abuja.Superlegalization@mzv.gov.cz

Long term visa/residence permit:

- Sport: Abuja.Sport.Visa@mzv.gov.cz

- Study: Abuja.Student.Visa@mzv.gov.cz

- Erasmus program: Abuja.Consulate@mzv.gov.cz

- Scientific Researchers: Abuja.Consulate@mzv.gov.cz

- Employment (Blue card only): Abuja.Consulate@mzv.gov.cz

- Family unification: Abuja.Visa@mzv.gov.cz

- Other: Abuja.Visa@mzv.gov.cz

2. Indicate only your passport number in the email subject line.

3. In the body of the email, include the following information: full name (as it appears on your travel document), type of visa and purpose of stay and email address. Additionally, if applicable, include the names of your spouse and children if you are applying jointly. For superlegalization the email must contain the following information: full name, date of birth, passport number, email address and a list of documents for superlegalization.

4. Attach the following documents to the e-mail for visa appointment (in .pdf format): a scan of the passport data page, a scan of the proof of purpose of the application, and a scan of the valid residence permit (in the case of third-country nationals). For superlegalization attach (in .pdf format) also a scan of the passport data page and a scan of the documents.

5. Applicants who are not citizens of the countries belonging to the territorial jurisdiction of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Abuja must also attach proof that they have been permitted to reside in the country within the territorial jurisdiction of the Embassy for at least the two years preceding the application. If residence cannot be proven, the applicant must submit the application in their home country.

6. 1 applicant = 1 e-mail. Submit only one email per applicant. Only one applicant can be submitted in each email. The only exceptions are: when minor children apply with a parent (→ parent includes minor children in their application) or when a family is applying (→ one family member includes minor children and spouse in their application).

7. Your e-mail will be processed electronically by a system based on a randomized element.

8. The following emails will be disqualified from the registration process:

(i) emails that are not sent in the format specified in point 2,

(ii) emails that do not include the attachments referred to in point 4,

iii) emails in which the applicant attempts to register multiple applicants in one submission** - except for emails from family or parents registering their minor children,

(iv) emails that are sent multiple times by one applicant,

v) emails sent outside the specified registration period,

vi) emails with attachments larger than 10 MB.

9. Wait for the confirmation. The Embassy will inform you within 7 days whether or not a submission date has been assigned.

10. If you do not receive confirmation of an assigned appointment within 7 days, it implies that your registration for an appointment was either unsuccessful or was not sent in accordance with the terms and conditions of the registration process.

11. The assigned date cannot be changed. If you fail to show up for your appointment, the assigned date becomes invalid. If you arrive late without prior apology, your appointment will also be cancelled - in such a case, the Embassy will proceed with other applicants who arrived on time.

 

Current average waiting time for submission of the application: 15 - 30 days.

Number of applications accepted for a given period for purpose of:

- all types of Schengen visa (from the registration system): 30

- superlegalization: 40

Long term visa/residence permit:

- study: 10 - 20

- family unification: 5 (minor children CAN apply in the same email as the legal guardian)

- other: 1

The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Abuja uses, for the given type of registrations for the acceptance of applications, an electronic registration system for applicants, which is conducted once per month on the basis of criteria published on the website of the Embassy. This is an electronic system that enables appointments to be allocated only to applications that have fulfilled the published criteria, and in an order based on a random element, in accordance with Section 169f(3) of Act No. 326/1999 Coll., on the Residence of Foreign Nationals in the Territory of the Czech Republic and on Amendments to Certain Acts. Appointments are always allocated for the following month.

Registration is open for 6 hours. The registration system sends the applicant a notification informing him/her whether the registration request has been delivered and how it has been processed. Registration requests delivered within the registration interval that have fulfilled the published criteria are, within the available capacity, assigned an appointment by a system using a random element. The chronological order of delivery of registration requests during the registration interval is not decisive for the allocation of an appointment. Due to the strict cyber protection measures, we recommend not to send the registration e-mail very close to the opening/closing time. The Embassy communicates only with applicants to whom an appointment has been allocated within the available capacity for the given period. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers this system to be transparent and fully compliant with the requirements of the case law of the administrative courts.

If a registration request for the submission of an application was not selected by a method based on a random element due to the limited capacity of the Embassy / a government-imposed quota and no appointment was allocated, the applicant was informed of this fact electronically. Requests for the allocation of an appointment submitted by a method other than the one described above cannot be accommodated.
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*The email addresses provided are for visa/residency/superlegalization application appointments only. They are not intended for general communication or answering inquiries.

**In order to ensure the functionality of the system, the mzv.cz domain antispam may identify attempts to send bulk registrations via software tools as spam. As a result, such registrations will not be processed. Applicants acknowledge that the mzv.gov.cz email domain is protected by advanced cybersecurity systems. Therefore, emails identified as spam or potentially harmful, those exhibiting signs of automated mass distribution, originating from IP addresses or domains on security blacklists, or those failing to meet or exceeding the established security parameters of the domain, may be excluded from the registration process. The use of automated tools, bots, scripts, or any other software for mass distribution of registration emails will be classified as a cyber threat, and such emails will be excluded from registration.