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Employee Card (zaměstnanecká karta)
The full guide, the forms in English, the document checklist, and every fee, deadline and validity period read from the ministry’s page or the Act itself. Applying, extending, and changing employer.
Your card expires. You changed jobs. You don’t know which form.
Every rule here comes from the Act or the ministry’s own page, with the date it was read. Start with where you are, or go straight to what you need.
What’s happening right now?
No signup, no email.
- My permit expires soonOr it already has
- I'm changing jobs, or just did
- I'm applying for the first time
- I'm going for permanent residence
- Something's gone wrong with my applicationNo decision, a missed appointment, a refusal
From “my permit expires soon” to the form you file.
One real situation, start to finish: renewing an Employee Card. The other four situations work the same way.
Step 1: Where you are
My permit expires soon
You pick the situation. No account, no email.
Open this situationStep 2: What applies to you
Four rules, each with its source
Read from the Act or the ministry’s page, with the date it was read.
- The window you may file in
- What the extension costs
- How long a decision takes
- If it expires while they are still deciding
Step 3: The form
Application for Employee Card (Issuance or Renewal)
Your permit decides the form. Its page explains each field in English.
Žádost o vydání nebo prodloužení platnosti zaměstnanecké karty
Open the formStep 4: What to do next
Five steps on the form’s page
What to attach, what it costs and where to file it.
- 1Check this is the right form
- 2Download the official form
- 3Gather what to attach
- 4Fill it in
- 5Submit it
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Five situations, or four questions if none fits.
One permit is finished. The rest is honest about what it is.
Every topic has a guide, and most have their official forms. The depth varies, and we would rather tell you that now than three weeks in.
Permanent residence(trvalý pobyt)
Citizenship(státní občanství)
EU Blue Card(modrá karta)
Studying(pobyt za účelem studia)
Family reunification(sloučení rodiny)
Business and freelancing(živnostenský list)
Czech language exams
Health insurance(zdravotní pojištění)
Employee Card application fee
ipc.gov.cz
2,500 CZK
Third-country nationals applying IN the Czech Republic at the Ministry of the Interior. Applying from abroad at an embassy costs more. EU citizens and their family members pay a different, lower schedule.
“Long-term residence (including blue and employee cards) | Application submission for a long-term residence permit | 2,500”
Corroborated by
“Přijetí žádosti o vydání povolení k pobytu — cizinci Kč 2 500”Act 634/2004, Položka 116 bod 1 a), version in force 2026-09-01
Every number on this site looks like this.
The amount, who it applies to, the sentence it was read from, the page it came from, and the date somebody opened that page. Where we cannot confirm a figure we say so and link you to the official source instead of guessing — that is 2 of the 31 figures we track today.
Dates work the same way: your filing window is worked out on screen, with the rule behind it. You check it; nothing emails you.
Is this legal advice?
No. It is the paperwork: which form applies to you, what it costs, what to attach, and the window you are allowed to file in. If your application has been refused, or anything about your case is contested, you want an immigration lawyer instead.
Why not just ask a Facebook group?
A group gives you someone’s memory of their own case. Almost every rule in Czech immigration law is scoped — to a permit type, to whether you file here or at an embassy, to your nationality. An answer that was correct for them can be the wrong one for you, and you find out months later.
What does it cost to find out?
Nothing. The guides, all 45 official forms and their PDFs, the path planner, the glossary, the free letter tools and one scored reálie exam paper are free to read, and the planner needs no account and no email address. Pro is 149 Kč a month and adds the assistant, unlimited exam papers and the A2 and B1 language exams, the document generators and saved case tracking.
Most of it is free to read.
The guides, all 45 official forms and their PDFs, the path planner, the glossary, the free letter tools and one scored reálie exam paper are free to read with no account at all. Pro is 149 Kč a month and adds the assistant, unlimited exam papers and the A2 and B1 language exams, the document generators and saved case tracking. There is no free account and nothing to sign up for — reading costs nothing and asks for nothing, and the only account there is, is a paid one.
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- Path planner — no account, no email
- All 45 official forms and the guides
- The complaint and motivation letter generators
- One scored reálie exam paper, marked question by question
- The CZ/EN glossary and every verified figure with its source
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- AI assistant that knows your case, your permit and your dates
- Unlimited exam papers, and the A2 and B1 language exams
- The document generators and checklist PDFs
- Saved applications, documents and dates
- Priority support
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One tap, and the rules that do not apply to you disappear. No account, no email address.
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