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• !!! IMPORTANT !!! - CORONAVIRUS - STATE OF EMERGENCY - INFORMATION FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS - !!! IMPORTANT !!!
   
• ​Check the status of your application - regularly updated approved applications for temporary, long-term and permanent residency including their extensions and extension of the long-term visa listed by receipt number (č.j.)
   
• EU citizens and their family members
  • BREXIT
     
• Third-country nationals
   
• Information for education providers and students
• Information for accommodation providers
• Information for employers
• Asylum
   
• Contacts
   
• Full text of the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals in the Czech Republic (pdf, 1.9 MB)
   
• Do you need assistance or advice?
   
• Information Publications for Foreigners
• Information Publications for Applicants for International Protection
• Information Publications for Beneficiaries of International Protection

IMPORTANT NOTICES:​

• Sign yourself all applications for resident permits sent to MOI offices. Send your applications to the Ministry of the Interior by post or via data box; do not send them via email without guaranteed electronic signature. Applications sent by simple email will not be considered.

• Information about change of operation of MOI offices due to the state of emergency

• Dear clients,
  the working hours of MoI telephone information line have changed:
  Mo - Thu: from 9:00 - 16:00.
             Fri: from 9:00 - 14:00.
  Thank you for your understanding.

• Dear clients,
  MOI office Praha - Letná will be opened from Monday, March 30^th, 2020. Opening hours are: Monday, Wednesday 9:00 - 12:00 (only for clients with an appointment).
  Thank you for your understanding.

• Dear clients,
  we would like to inform you that:
  - there will be no acquisition of biometric data on these MOI offices: Chomutov and Kladno.
  Thank you for your understanding.

• We would like to inform you that a practice of making copies of presented documents has changed since January 1st, 2020. You will find more information here (pdf, 170 kB).

• You can find List of changes made by the amendment to the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals with effect as of July 31st, 2019 here (pdf, 184 kB).

• Dear clients,
  we would like to inform you that you can check the status of your application via receipt number (or "ŽOV" number) here: https://frs.gov.cz/en/ioff/application-status.
  Thank you for your understanding.

• Dear clients,
  MOI office Liberec (address: Voroněžská 144/20, Liberec) will be closed from March 26^th - March 31^st, 2020 due to reconstruction. MOI office will be open again from 1 April 2020.
  If you want to make an appointment, we recommend you to use Foreigners reservation system: https://frs.gov.cz/en. There are a lot of free terms.
  Thank you for your understanding.

• Dear clients,
  there is only one telephone number to make an appointment in Prague and Central Bohemia - telephone appointment line - 974 820 680. There are rules of ordering line. We also kindly ask you to call to this appointment line only in case you want to make a reservation. Working hours of appointment line are: Mo - Th: 9.00 - 16.00 and Fr: 9.00 - 14.00.

• 06/11/2019 - An up-to-date version of the Act No. 326/1999 Coll. on the Residence of Foreign Nationals in the Czech Republic
• 31/07/2019 - Information leaflets for university students considering changes made by amendment to the Act. No 326/1999 Coll. on the Residence of Foreign Nationals with effect from July 31st, 2019
• 20/05/2015 - Emergencies
• 08/09/2014 - New Immigration Portal of the Ministry of Interior
• 08/02/2012 - Leaving the Czech Republic with a Departure Order - transit by ground

  
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Disclaimer: This website is currently under construction and is continuously being updated. The information available here is not intended to be comprehensive and many details which are relevant to particular circumstances may have been omitted. It is not a complete statement of the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals in the Czech Republic (pdf, 1.9 MB) or policy. Please note that the MOI takes no responsibility for the content and accuracy of any of the external websites we link to from this website.