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Long Term Permit

General information

Where to apply

You are entitled to file an application for a long-term residence permit inside the Czech Republic at the Ministry of Interior (MOI) offices, if:

  • you have been residing in the Czech Republic on a visa for a stay of over 90 days and

  • you intend to temporarily live in the Czech Republic for more than 1 year including the previous visa

  • and if, at the same time, the purpose of your stay remains unchanged (exceptions are made e.g. for a Blue Card, family members or scientists).

    In given cases, an application for a long-term residence permit without the precondition of staying on a visa for over 90 days can be submitted  at a Czech Embassy (purpose of studies, scientific research, family reunification, resident of another EU Member State, Employee Card). The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Kuwait has consular territorial competence for the  State of Kuwait and the State of Qatar.

    You should submit the application on a completed form along with all the necessary requirements given individually for selected purposes of stay. You should, however, always submit originals or notarized copies of the documents. All of the documents submitted must be made out in the Czech language or Slovak language or officially translated into Czech. Moreover, foreign public documents must be supported by a higher verification (superlegalisation or Apostille).

    All documents issued by the relevant Kuwaiti /Qatari authorities (Police Clearance Certificate, Unabridged Marriage/Birth Certificates etc.) must be authorized by the relevant Ministry of  Foreign Affairs and then superlegalized by the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Kuwait  and then officially translated into Czech language.

    The requirements for the application shall not be older than 180 days except for the travel document and the photograph of the foreign national if it corresponds to his/her actual appearance.


    Application proceedings

    You are obliged to file the application for a long-term residence permit and application of "change of purse" for long term residence permit in person. (Only with certain types of applications that can be filed at embassies, the particular Czech Embassy can waive this obligation, in well-substantiated cases). If the application is filed in the Czech Republic in a different manner (electronically, by post, via an authorised representative), it has to be delivered to the Ministry of Interior at the last day of statutory period (it is not enough to submit the application at the last day on the Post Office) application proceedings are not initiated if you do not visit the MOI office were the application was sent/submitted in person within 5 days from it being received. If this is the case, the office will inform you of the fact that proceedings were not initiated and will return the application to you along with any appendices.

    In the event of filing the application at a Czech Embassy, the Czech Embassy works as an intermediary between the applicants and the body responsible the MOI. During the proceedings, the embassy communicates with the applicants, inviting them for an interview, informing them of the reasons for rejecting their application or invites them to arrive for the stamping of the visa for over 90 days for the purpose of collecting a residence permit.

    If the specified requirements have not been submitted with the application or it has other discrepancies, the proceedings for such an application can be suspended. During the proceedings, the MOI/embassy can invite you for an interview, request that you complete the requirements, take your fingerprints or take a pictorial record of you.

    Additions can be made to the application in person, by means of your proxy or by post. The documents you were asked to provide should always be provided within the set deadlines. Not providing these requirements is a reason to reject the application. During the process you can, of course, provide any other documents that you consider important for your application.

    The Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals sets out the deadlines in which the MOI has to make a decision on the application from the day of filing the application. The deadlines vary for individual purposes of stay and can be found in the information on individual categories. If the proceedings are suspended, the deadline for issuing a decision is also suspended. This deadline is also suspended or is extended in cases laid down by law.


    Decision to issue a long-term residence permit

    In the case of a positive appraisal of your application, the MOI office/embassy at which you filed the application will contact you.

    If you are not in the Schengen area at the expected time of a decision to be reached (on an application submitted inside Schengen area), please inform the given MOI office/embassy of this matter.

    In the event of filing an application at an embassy, you will receive a visa for a stay of over 90 days for the purpose of receiving a residence permit, with which you can travel to the CR and report to the MOI office within 3 days to fulfil the reporting duty and provide biometric data necessary for issuing a residence card. The address of the office which you are suppose to report at, will be given to you when receiving the residence permit at the Czech embassy abroad.

    In the stated time period, however no longer than 60 days from providing the biometric data, you have to report in person at a MOI office in order to collect your residence permit card – to confirm your identity (or more precisely the correctness of the personal information in the card, its functionality and the information and correctness of the data saved on the biometric card).

    If the application is rejected you have the right to recall the decision

    In the event of not being granted a long-term visa, within 15 days of receiving the notification of not being granted a long-term visa you can request the MOI – Department for Asylum and Migration Policy – for a new appraisal of the reasons for not granting the visa. If it was not possible to deliver the notification of not being granted a long-term visa, the deadline for filing an application starts on the day that follows the 180th day from filing the visa application.The application on a new appraisal of the reasons shall contain data about who filed it, what is regarded as being at variance with the legal regulations or an impropriety in the previous decision or procedure. Facts that you failed to provide or state in the application for a visa cannot be a reason for a new appraisal.Within 60 days of the application being delivered, the MOI will inform you in writing of the results of the new appraisal of the reasons for not granting a long-term visa.

    You can send the application by post to the Ministry of the Interior of the CR.

     

    https://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/sites/antitrafficking/files/act_no_326_on_residence_of_foreign_nationals_en_1.pdf