Registration for the submission of the Applications to participate in the lottery and the possibility to apply for employment purposes for the 1st Quarter 2026 will take place on November 13th 2025, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 

1. Send a registration email to the following email address: tbilisi.employment@mzv.gov.cz on the above-mentioned date at the above-mentioned time.*

2. Indicate 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. 

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

5. Applicants who are not citizens of the countries belonging to the territorial jurisdiction of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in  Tbilisi 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: 17

*The email addresses provided are for visa/residency 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.

 

 

Frequantly asked questions:

1. Include only your passport number in the subject line.

No other characters are permitted (e.g., Re.:, Fwd:, etc.).

 

2. Email registration will take place on the above-mentioned date.

Emails received at Tbilisi.employment@mzv.gov.cz before or after the designated registration period will be disregarded and excluded from the registration process. The time of delivery of the email to the mailbox is determining. 

 

3. Due to the cybersecurity measures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, we recommend sending your email during the first hours of the registration period, rather than at the end.

 

4. Each applicant may send only one email.

If multiple emails are sent on behalf of the same applicant within the given deadline, the applicant will be automatically excluded from the registration, even if the emails are sent from different email addresses.

 

5. Email applications must include copies of the following documents in PDF format only:

• A scanned copy of the data page of the applicant’s travel document

• A scan of the employment contract

 

6. Citizens of countries other than Georgia may only participate in the registration if they have been residing in Georgia for more than two (2) years on the basis of a long-term residence permit. A scan of this residence permit must be included in PDF format in the registration email together with the other required attachments.

 

7. Registration emails where the sender has activated a restriction preventing replies (such as disabling receipt of confirmation replies) will be excluded from the registration process.

 

We would like to highlight that the registration to apply for an employee card does not guarantee that the applicant will be granted a term to apply for an employee card. It is only a registration of applicants for the allocation of a date, from which above mentioned amount of applicants will be randomly drawn, who will then be informed via the Embassy about the date set for the submission of the application for the Employee Card itself.

It is further to be noted that even in case of submitting of an employee card application, there is no guarantee that the employee card is going to be granted. The decision process related to the employee card applications falls in its entirety into the competence of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic and there is no legal claim on obtaining an employee card.

The above described appointment system has been adopted in accordance with the Art. 169f of the Act No. 326/1999 Coll., on the Residence of Foreign Nationals in the Territory of the Czech Republic and the jurisprudence of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic (judgement No. 10 Azs 153/2016).