Czech Republic - Obtain Employee Card

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Procedure

1. Go to Czech Embassy (appropriate jurisdiction) or Ministry of the Interior office to file for an application .
2. Fill out an "Application for Employee Card" form. You can download the form here: Application Forms
3. State the number of the job vacancy according to the central register of job vacancies that can be filled by holders of employee cards, in addition to providing the relevant information.
4. Attach the required documents.
5. Submit the application.
6. An interview invite might be requested to you.
7. Pay the fees.

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Required Documents

• application form
• travel document
• 2 photos
• biometric features fingerprints
• fee (1,000 CZK)
• supporting documents proving
• purpose of stay (employment contract, work agreement or agreement on future agreement, document proving qualification if required)
• accommodation (for example rent agreement etc.)
• financial means (for example bank statement and international credit card etc.)
• criminal record extract issued by the state of the applicants citizenship and by the state where the applicant resided in the last three years for more than six months
• upon request a document proving fulfillment of measures against spread of infectious disease
• travel health insurance in case of visa issuance

Office Locations & Contacts

Ministry of the Interior
postbox 21
Prague 7 Letn
170 34
Telephone: +420 974 811 111 (switchboard operator)

MOI offices

Eligibility

An employee card is intended for foreign nationals from all the countries around the world. But not for citizens of the EU/EEA Member States and Switzerland and their family members who are citizens of other states but hold a residence card for a family member of a citizen of the EU/EEA and Switzerland or those who have applied for such a card.

Fees

Employee Card - 1,000 CZK

Validity

An employee card is most often issued for the duration of the employer-employee relationship but not for more than 2 years, with an option to repeatedly extend its validity.

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Sample Documents

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Processing Time

The deadline for making a decision on an application for an employee card is 60 days; or 90 days in especially complicated cases or if the Department for Asylum and Migration Policy of the Ministry of the Interior has requested the Employment Agency of the CR a regional branch office or the branch office for the Capital City of Prague to issue a binding statement of opinion.

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Instructions

• An application for an employee card must be filed in person at the embassy of the CR with the appropriate territorial jurisdiction. You are only entitled to file the application at the embassy of the CR in the state of which you are a citizen or, if applicable, the state that issued your travel document, or in the state where you have long-term or permanent residence. Compliance with this condition is waived for a foreign national who is a citizen of a state that appears on the list of countries whose citizens are entitled to file an application for a long-term visa or a long-term or permanent residence permit at any embassy of the CR (Ordinance No. 429/2010 Coll.).
• An applicant is also entitled to file an application for an employee card in the territory of the CR at an office of the Ministry of the Interior (MoI) of the CR, if you are already staying in the territory of the CR on a visa for a stay of over 90 days or a long-term residence permit for some other purpose. In that case, you may file an application until the very end of validity of such residence permit.
• An employee card can be applied for by submitting a special application form titled Application for an Employee Card where you must also state the number of the job vacancy according to the central register of job vacancies that can be filled by holders of employee cards, in addition to providing the relevant information.
• An application for an employee card must always be filed in person. (The only exception applies for applications filed at an embassy, where the embassy can waive this obligation in justified cases.)
• For applications filed in the territory of the CR at an office of the MoI CR, it applies that if you file the application in some other manner (electronically, by mail, via an authorised representative), it must be deliver to MOI CR by the last day of the statutory period (not enough to bring it to the post by the last day of statutory period), the proceedings on the application will not be commenced unless you appear in person at the office of the MoI CR where the application was sent/filed within 5 days.
• In the case of applications filed at an embassy, the embassy acts merely as an intermediary between the applicant and the authority responsible for the decision, which is the MoI CR. During the proceedings, the embassy communicates with the applicant; at the beginning of the proceedings, the embassy requests the applicant to eliminate any deficiencies in the application and invites the applicant to an interview; the documents prepared by the MoI are delivered to the applicant via the embassy; or else the embassy requests the applicant to come to have a visa for a stay of over 90 days for the purpose of collecting an employee card entered into his or her passport.

Required Information

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1. Date of Birth.
2. City or County of Birth.

Need for the Document

An Employee Card is a new type of permit for a long-time residence in Czech Republic where the purpose of the foreign national's stay is employment. It is intended for foreigners who will work in the Czech Republic for a period longer than three months.

A foreign national who has an employee card is entitled:

• to reside in the territory of the CR and, at the same time,
• to work in the job for which the employee card was issued, or
• to work in the job for which the Department for Asylum and Migration Policy of the Ministry of the Interior granted consent (in connection with changing employer, changing job, taking up employment with an additional employer or in an additional job).

Following are the procedures on how to obtain an employee card.

Information which might help

An employee card replaces the visa for a stay of over 90 days for the purpose of employment, a long-term residence permit for the purpose of employment and a Green Card, which will no longer be issued. Blue Cards will continue to be issued.

Other uses of the Document/Certificate

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e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

External Links

Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic

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