Long term residence permit

 You can apply for this type of residence permit, if you have been staying in the territory of the CR on visa issued for more than 90 days and you wish to reside in the territory for a temporary period longer than one year without changing the purpose of your stay.

  Also you can apply for long term residence permit in the event that you have been staying on visa over 90 days for the purpose of tolerated stay and subsequently you are staying here on long term residence permit for the purpose of tolerated stay, and you have been staying in the territory for at least 3 years without interruption.

 You can also file the application for long term residence permit, if you have been staying in the territory as a member of diplomatic mission staff or a member of the staff of international governmental organization accredited in the CR, or as a family member.

The period of validity of residence permit varies according to the type of the purpose of stay and it can be 6 months as the very minimum, or 1 year or 2 years at the most. 

 Application shall be submitted at an alien police department relevant to your domicile  120 days at the earliest and 14 days at the latest before the expiration of your visa issued for over 90 days. The application shall be cleared within 60 days from its submission. (There is one exception – application for long term residence permit for the purpose of family reunification; police issue the ruling within 270 days from the date of submission.)

You are obliged to attach following documents to your application:

-   passport

-  document evidencing the purpose of your stay in the territory

-   document proving sufficient funds to sustain yourself

-   document evidencing that you are provided with lodging during your stay in the territory

-  abstract from Criminal Register of the CR (this does not apply to persons under 15 years

    of age)

-   2 photographs

  If you apply for residence permit for the purpose of employment, you are obliged to attach your travel document, document evidencing that you are provided with lodging during your stay in the territory, abstract from Criminal Register of CR, 2 photographs, work permit or a document extending your work permit.

  If you apply for residence permit for the purpose of doing business, you are obliged to attach the same documents as in the case of applying for long term permit (see above), a document issued by the tax office of the CR showing the status of tax arrears and the confirmation from the District Board of Social Insurance that you do not owe any social security contributions or contributions to the state employment policy system, including penalty. (If you are not a payer of such contributions, you are obliged to provide a document evidencing such fact.) In case that you are an entrepreneur according to the Small Business Act, you are obliged to submit a trade certificate or a license deed, or the confirmation from the Trades Licensing Office that you meet the requirements for doing business.

 If our application is answered in affirmative, police issue a long term residence card or they earmark the permit in your travel document (the purpose of stay is indicated there, too). Administrative ruling on long term residence permit is issued with regard to children below the age of 15 without travel documentAdministrative fee for the issuance of this type of residence permit is  CZK1000,-.

Children below the age of 15 pay CZK 500,-

Changing the purpose of stay

 If you wish to stay in the territory for a purpose different from the one you have been granted permission for, you are obliged to apply for a new long term residence permit.

 Exemption concerns persons who have been granted long term residence permit for the purpose of family reunification (see below) who can apply at the alien police office to be granted long term residence permission for a different purpose under following conditions.

-  if you are over 18 years of age and you have been staying in the territory for 5 years, you are entitled to work or do business under privileged conditions, it means that you are not obliged to change existing purpose of your stay to be allowed to work;

-   in case of divorce, if you have been staying in the territory at least 2 years at the date of divorce and your marriage was lasting 5 years at the very minimum;

-   you are a survivor of a person who was granted permission for family reunification, you can apply for a different purpose of stay in case that you had been staying in the territory at least for 2 years without interruption at the date of death of your family member, or if death was caused by an occupational injury or an occupational disease. (This right expires after a lapse of 1 year from the date of death.)

If you have been granted residence permit for the purpose of protection (see below), you can apply for changing the purpose of your stay without meeting other requirements.

If you are a holder of visa for over 90 days for the purpose of tolerated stay, you are not allowed  to apply for the change of the purpose of your stay.