Student visa to the Czech Republic - grounds for obtaining
A student visa to the Czech Republic is probably the easiest of all long-term visas to the Czech Republic, and the refusal rate for student visas is lower than for other types of long-term visas. Therefore, if you decide to move to the Czech Republic and you are between 16 and 30 years old, then obtaining a student visa is ideal as the first step on the path of your immigration to the Czech Republic.
The basis for issuing a student visa to the Czech Republic is your study at an educational institution accredited in this country. It can be both a university and a secondary educational institution, and Czech language courses. Moreover, not all Czech language courses provide a basis for obtaining a student visa to the Czech Republic. Many accredited courses, although they give the basis for obtaining a visa, but having provided confirmation of acceptance to such courses to the Czech Embassy, you can only apply for a visa for the purpose of another or tourism.
With such a visa, you can freely enter the country, study at courses and even, possibly, enter a university. But then you will have to return home and again apply to the Czech consulate to obtain a student visa to the Czech Republic, because other types of visas, for example, a tourist visa cannot be exchanged for a student visa.
A completely different situation arises when you start studying Czech language courses at a state university . In this case, you immediately receive a student visa and upon entering the university upon completion of the course, you just have to complete the formalities for extending your existing student visa without leaving the territory of the Czech Republic.
All our Czech language courses are held at large, well-known state Czech universities, so when you enroll in our courses, you immediately receive a long-term student visa to the Czech Republic, without causing unnecessary questions and mistrust from the embassy staff. At the end of our courses, you renew your student visa at the appropriate department of the Czech Ministry of Internal Affairs, without leaving the country. Subject to the availability and correct filling of all documents, there are no problems with extending a student visa in the Czech Republic.
Student visa to the Czech Republic - validity and processing time
A long-term student visa to the Czech Republic is a visa for the purpose of study, valid for 90 days to a year. This is a multivisa, so the number of entries and exits from the country is not limited, moreover, with a student visa, you can freely travel from the Czech Republic to the Schengen countries.
Documents and an application for a long-term visa to the Czech Republic are considered by the competent authorities of the Czech Republic from 60 days to six months. This period depends on where you will study. According to the law, upon admission of an applicant to a state university or to Czech language courses at a state university, the minimum period for consideration of an application for a student visa is 60 days. However, in practice, even in this case, consideration of your application for a student visa to the Czech Republic may take 2-4 months, so we advise you to take this fact into account and prepare visa documents very well in advance.
You can register at the embassy to apply for a long-term student visa to the Czech Republic exclusively via the Internet. Students applying to most of our programs must choose: "Long Stay Visa" Purpose - Study. Due to the large flow of people wishing to study in the Czech Republic, it is not always possible to sign up for the near future, and the registration process itself can take a long time.
Student visa to the Czech Republic - required documents
It is necessary to apply for a student visa to the Czech Republic at the consulate in person. The documents must be translated into Czech by a certified translator with a seal, or the translation requires notarization by a Czech notary at the consulate. Documents older than 180 days are not accepted when applying for a student visa to the Czech Republic. The passport must be valid for at least another 90 days after the expected expiration of the requested visa. So, to obtain a visa, you must provide:
- International passport, as well as 2 copies of its pages with a photo.
- Application for a student visa to the Czech Republic. The application form and instructions for filling out can be found on the website of the Czech Embassy.
- Photos, 2 pieces, size 3.5 x 4.5 cm. On the reverse side of the photo, you must sign in Latin letters in accordance with the passport (name, surname, date of birth).
- Confirmation of acceptance for study.
- Confirmation of the availability of a place to stay in the Czech Republic. Additionally, the necessary powers of attorney, extracts from the real estate cadastre and the commercial register are also attached.
- A police clearance certificate in the territory of the country of which you are a citizen, as well as from countries in which the applicant has stayed for more than 6 months over the past 3 years.
- Notarized consent of both parents for the minor to travel abroad (for those who will be less than 18 years old at the time of crossing the border). We send a sample of consent to our students at their request.
- Confirmation of financial security (bank statement and / or account statement). To obtain a long-term student visa to the Czech Republic for a period of six months, you must have at least CZK 59,400 or CZK 85,800 per year. If it is planned to obtain a visa for a time period - until the age of 18, half of the indicated amounts is considered sufficient. To confirm the availability of the required amount, the embassy is provided with:
- A bank statement on the availability of funds in the account and a bank card. The certificate must indicate the name of the owner of the account and card, indicate the belonging of the presented card to this account, indicate the amount on the account and the currency of the account, as well as the equivalent of the amount in euros (converted into euros).
- A valid bank card is required. Bank card details, including the card number, must also be indicated in the certificate.
If you do not have your own account, and the account is registered for another person, then you need to provide a bank card in your name (photocopy) issued to the account of the person in whose name this account is opened. It is also necessary to provide a statement of account status, which must indicate the name of the account holder, the amount on the account and the currency of the account, the equivalent of this amount in euros. Further, it is necessary that the account statement contains information that you can use the account. If this information is not contained in the statement, then the account holder must write a so-called "sponsorship letter" - a confirmation that he allows you to use funds from his account. The signature of the account holder must be notarized (certified by the notary of the country in which the certificate was issued). This option is used in the event that if a minor child travels to the Czech Republic and the account is opened for the parent. We will send a sample sponsorship letter to students.
That is, if the owner of the account is, for example, your mother, then you provide the following documents:
- certificate from the bank in the name of the parent,
- information that you have the right to use this account, which is contained in the text of the statement of the certificate or
- a sponsorship letter written by a parent to the child's name stating that the child is eligible to use the parent's account
- a bank card that the parent orders to his own account in the name of the child.
If you are our client and you need a sample of a “correct” statement of account status, please contact our consultants and we will send you a sample!
Since most banks issue certificates that do not meet the requirements of the embassy, please send us scans of your certificates for verification before giving them to a translator or sending us the originals for translation.
When applying for a student visa to the Czech Republic, you must also provide:
- it is necessary to provide copies (without notarization) of all the documents listed above and their translations. You do not need to provide a copy of the application for obtaining a visa,
- A5 envelope with your contact address in the “recipient” field,
- A “notification of delivery” with the applicant's address is a card to be picked up by mail.
Czech document translations - important information
All documents submitted with an application for a long-term student visa to the Czech Republic must be in the Czech language.
All documents in other languages must be translated into Czech. The translation is carried out either by a court translator in the Czech Republic with certification with a seal, or outside the Czech Republic - by any translation agency, with subsequent certification of the translation by a Czech notary at the consulate. We pay special attention to the fact that translations are attached to the original documents.
Translation of documents by a legal translator in the Czech Republic
If you decide to submit your certificates for translation to a court translator in the Czech Republic, you can contact our consultants to clarify what exactly you need for this. To do this, you will have to send us the originals of your documents. If the translation is made by a court translator in the Czech Republic, it does not need to be certified anywhere before being submitted to the consulate, the translation is completely ready to be submitted to the consulate.
Translation of documents in a translation agency in your country and certification by a Czech notary at the consulate
You can order the translation of your certificates at a translation agency in your country. If the translation is not made by a Czech court translator and is not certified by his seal, then certification of the translation by a Czech notary at the consulate is required. Because Czech notaries at the consulate do not accept every day, or the certification of a translation may take several days, we recommend that you call the consulate beforehand to clarify the notary's working hours, how long it will take to certify the translations, how many days before the planned submission of documents, it is necessary to provide the notary with the translations for certification. You can contact our consultants to clarify the contact information of the Czech consulates in a particular country, as well as territorial affiliation (which consulate in which city you belong to).
When applying for a long-term student visa, you must submit the entire package of documents to the embassy or consulate at once. The documents submitted later will not be accepted by the embassy.
Student visa to the Czech Republic - tips and tricks
When applying for a long-term student visa to the Czech Republic, you can be interviewed at the embassy. At the interview, you may be asked where you will study, what exactly is the name of the educational institution and where it is located, where you will live, what are the conditions in the place of your future residence in the Czech Republic, have you seen it. If you have not been to the Czech Republic and have not seen either a university or a hostel, it is advisable to say that you have seen the photographs and describe what you saw on them. You may also be asked about why you actually need a student visa to the Czech Republic, why you need to study in the Czech Republic and what you are going to do after graduation. It is advisable to answer such questions that the Czech Republic has an excellent education, so you want to study in this country, and after graduation, you are going to return and work in your homeland.
Remember that getting a visa, both student and any other, to the Czech Republic and not only, is not your right. The embassy views issuing you a visa as a "service" that their government provides you. Refusals sometimes do not have objective reasons, they may depend on the mood of the interviewer at the consulate or the official responsible for receiving documents, on filling out the protocol based on your answers to the questions asked and on the subjective impression you will make during the interview at the embassy. Therefore, before applying for a long-term student visa to the Czech Republic, we recommend that you prepare well for the interview at the embassy, think about what you will answer possible questions. Be polite and positive during the interview.
And we wish you success in submitting documents and getting your long-awaited student visa to the Czech Republic as soon as possible and keep our fingers crossed!
