Employee Cards are intended for foreigners who will work in the Czech Republic for a period longer than three month.

Employee card is a form of a long-term residence permit.

Applications for Employee Cards are submitted at the diplomatic missions of the Czech Republic according to the consular territorial competence. The diplomatic mission forwards the application to the Ministry of the Interior for evaluation and decision. If the application is evaluated positively, the diplomatic mission where the application was filled issues a long-term visa for the purpose of collecting the Employee Card. The foreigner collects the Employee Card after the arrival to the Czech Republic at the Ministry of the Interior.

Employee Card application requirements:

• Application form  for an Employee Card
• Application form for  a long - term residency permit
• travel document
• 2 photos
• biometric features – fingerprints
• fee (5 000 CZK)
• supporting documents proving
  • purpose of stay (employment contract, work agreement or agreement on future agreement and document proving qualification)
  • birth certificate
  • proof of accommodation with officially verified signature of a landlord (for example rent contract etc.)
  • proof of financial means (for example bank statement for past three months and international credit card etc.)
• criminal record extract issued by the state of the applicant´s citizenship and by the state where the applicant resided in the last three years for more than six months
• upon request a document proving fulfillment of measures against spread of infectious disease
• health insurance for the whole period of stay will be requested when visa is approved

All requested documents MUST be submitted as ORIGINALS together with COPIES tranlated into CZECH LANGUAGE (WITHOUT THEM THE APPLICATION WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED). Just the data page of the passport should be copied (not the whole passport). 

Detailed information about Employee Card applications is available at the website of the Ministry of the Interior, under which competence the portfolio of Employee Cards falls.