Visa Types
VISA is an authorization which allows a foreign national to enter and temporarily stay on the territory of the Czech Republic / Schengen Area under conditions specified within.
Visa is issued into a passport (travel document) in a form of a visa sticker. Every applicant, incl. a child, is issued an individual visa sticker. If the child does not have own passport and is inscribed in the parent´s passport, two visa stickers are issued into the passport of the parent.
CZE issues these visas:
SCHENGEN VISAS
● for SHORT-TERM (UP TO 90 DAYS) stays in CZE / Schengen Area
● for purposes
→ TOURISM
→ BUSINESS
→ CULTURE
→ SPORT
→ VISIT (INVITATION)
→ OFFICIAL (POLITICAL)
→ TRAINING
→ OTHER
● issued as "C" visas
+ AIRPORT TRANSIT VISA (issued as “A” visas)
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LONG-TERM VISAS
● for LONG-TERM (OVER 90 DAYS) stays in CZE
● issued as needed for 91 days up to 1 year
● allows the holder to undertake short-term (up to 90 days) non-profit travel in the rest of the Schengen Area
● for purposes
→ MEDICAL REASONS
→ CULTURE
→ SPORT
→ OFFICIAL (POLITICAL)
→ FAMILY
→ STUDY, INTERNSHIP, LANGUAGE COURSE, VOLUNTEERING
→ TRAINING
→ OTHER
● issued as "D" visas
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LONG-TERM RESIDENCE PERMITS
● issued as "long-term visas for the purpose of collecting a long-term residence permit" for 60 days during which its holder arrives to CZE and collects the long-term residence permit
● allows the holder to undertake short-term (up to 90 days) non-profit travel in the rest of the Schengen Area
● for purposes
→ EMPLOYMENT – Employee Card, Blue Card, Intra-Corporate Transfer Card
→ INVESTMENT
→ STUDY
→ STAY OF PERSONS WITH LONG-TERM RESIDENT STATUS IN ANOTHER EU STATE
● issued as "D" visas
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PERMANENT RESIDENCE PERMIT
● issued as "long-term visas for the purpose of collecting a long-term residence permit" for 60 days during which its holder arrives to CZE and collects the long-term residence permit
● allows the holder to undertake short-term (up to 90 days) non-profit travel in the rest of the Schengen Area
● issued as "D" visas
Legal sources:
○ Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas (Visa Code)
○ Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement (codification)
○ Act No 326/1999 Coll., on the Residence of Foreign Nationals in the Czech Republic and Amending Certain Acts (in Czech)
Useful links:
○ Information of the European Commission about Schengen
○ Information of the EUR-Lex about Schengen
○ Information of the Ministry of the Interior about traveling Schengen
○ Information of the Office for Personal Data Protection about Schengen