Diplomatic missions of the Czech Republic request all applicants for long-term visas and long-term and permanent residence permits older than 15 years of age to submit criminal record extracts along with their applications, i.e. criminal record extracts issued by a state of which they are citizen and in which they have resided in the past three years uninterruptedly for a period longer than six months, alternatively a solemn declaration if these states do not issue criminal record extracts, in accordance with article 31 paragraph 3 a) of Act No. 326/1999 Coll., on Stay of Foreign Nationals on the Territory of the Czech Republic.