Updated information on entry and residence (including requirements for visa and residence permit applications) is available on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

● We ask all applicants to kindly make an appointment for submitting the visa application - by sending a mail to Tokyo.Visa@mzv.gov.cz - as early as possible, since the waiting time for available submission slots can be long at times (especially during the summer months, when the waiting time can exceptionally exceed 6 weeks). How to obtain a visa appointment: please follow this information. Thank you for your understanding.

● From 2 May 2023, the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Dresden will become the only place in the Schengen area where eligible applicants will be able to apply for a short-term or long-term visa and residence permit. Other embassies in the Schengen area will no longer accept visa applications. More information here.

● When applying for a visa, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tokyo always requires submitting a Criminal Record issued by applicant's home country and by all countries where the applicant stayed in the last three years for more than 6 months (in total).

● Foreigners residing in Japan (who are not Japanese citizens) can submit an application for a long-term residence permit at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tokyo only if they have resided in Japan legally and continuously for at least two years and are currently holders of a Japanese residence permit that is at least one year long.