The embassy hereby informs that due to limited operational capacities, the embassy is only accepting up to maximum number of student visa applications per month which is 40 (max. 20 slots for long-term visa/residence applicants and max. 20 slots for Schengen visa applicants).

Average waiting time for a visa appointment is currently around 6-8 weeks for those students who have applied for a visa appointment until June 30, 2025. 

For those who have applied for a visa appointment after June 30, 2025 their visa appointment requests will be on hold until further notice if there are any slots available (for example if there are any cancellations from previous students). In other words, there is no guarantee the applicants who have applied for a visa appointment after June 30, 2025 will be given the appointment on time so that their visa application is processed before their intended date of arrival in the Czech Republic.

Therefore we would like to encourage students to send us their visa appointment requests before June 30, 2025!

When applying for a visa appointment you must strictly follow the instructions on our website. If not, your request will be excluded and ignored as the embassy receives hundreds of requests every month. All the appointment requests are queued in the exact order in which the email request was received by the embassy, in accordance with the principle of transparency and predictability. Students who insist on disrespecting the waiting queue will be excluded immediately!

NOTE: The above mentioned number of available slots already includes slots for students accepted in special student programs: Government Scholarships, "Režim student" and "Zrychlená procedura". These students have a priority over any other applicants based on the priorities of the embassy and of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. 

UPDATE: Please, note that at this moment all the available slots until the end of the month of August are already taken due to an extremely elevated number of students interested in applying for visa this year. As the capacities of the embassy remain the same as last year, it is not realistically possible to attend all the students.