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For the purpose of employment (Employee Card)

The Consulate General currently only has the capacity to accept Employee Card applications during its consular hours, 4 applicants per month.

You should submit the application on a completed form along with all the necessary requirements given individually for selected purposes of stay. You must submit originals of the documents. All of the documents submitted must be in Czech language or officially translated into Czech. Furthermore, Hong Kong or Macau public documents must be apostilled, while public documents from Mainland China must have a higher verification (superlegalisation) by the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Beijing, the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Shanghai or the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Chengdu.

The following must be submitted along with an application for an employee card:

  1. a valid travel document,
  2. a document confirming availability of accommodation,
  3. 2 photographs showing the current appearance of the foreign national,
  4. a contract of employment, an agreement on work activity (or at least an agreement for a future contract where the parties agree to enter into a contract of employment or an agreement on work activity by an agreed deadline). The aforementioned documents must contain a stipulation which provides that regardless of the scope of work, the agreed monthly salary will not be lower than the basic monthly minimum wage and that weekly working hours will be at least 15 hours,
  5. documents proving the professional qualifications for performance of the desired job, if this condition follows from the nature of the employment or an international agreement sets such a condition, particularly
    • a document proving the required education (such as a diploma); in justified cases, particularly if reasonable doubt exists as to whether you have the required education or whether your education is appropriate for the nature of employment, you will be obliged, at the request of an administrative authority, to prove and submit a document certifying that your foreign education has been recognised by the relevant authority of the CR,
    • a document proving the required professional qualifications, if such qualifications are required according to other legal regulations (for example, a fork-lift truck operator licence or the appropriate driving licence for a tram/bus driver, etc.),
    • a document proving that you meet the requirements for performing an occupation referred to as “regulated occupation”, if your application is related to this kind of occupation; if you do not hold such a document already, you must apply to the relevant recognition authority of the Czech Republic for recognition of your professional qualifications, after filing the application for an employee card. Issuance of the employee card is contingent on your submission of an affirmative decision of the recognition authority,
  6. a document similar to an extract from the Penal Register, i. e. Certificate of No Criminal Conviction (in Hong Kong). Certificate of No Criminal Conviction from Hong Kong Police (Request letter from the Consulate is needed in order to apply for the Certificate at Hong Kong Police - for deailts please see here), please and any other country where you have stayed during past 3 years for more than 6 months (duly apostilled or superlegalized and with verified translation into Czech or English language) and your home country if it is not Hong Kong.

More detailed information related to applying for an Employee Card can be found at: http://www.mvcr.cz/mvcren/article/employee-card-682810.aspx.