Is an Airbnb booking enough for a long-stay application?

It is none of the three statutory forms. Some offices tolerate transitional arrangements briefly, but the application stands on the Act’s list, get one of the three.

How fresh must the proof be?

It must cover the stay being applied for, and as a supporting document it lives under the 180-day rule where it applies, see [the documents answer](/answers/apostille-and-sworn-translation).

Does the flat have to meet a size standard?

For the proof itself, the Act asks for the document, not square metres. Specific procedures can look harder at real conditions; a mailbox-only address is a risk everywhere.

What counts as proof of accommodation for a Czech visa?

Exactly three documents qualify: proof you own the flat or house, proof you are entitled to use it (typically your lease), or a written confirmation by the owner or authorised user, with an officially verified signature, that you may live there. Anything else, booking confirmations included for long stays, is asking for a request to supplement.

Who this is for: Long-stay visa and residence applicants, and the landlords and hosts being asked to sign for them.

Not for: Short Schengen stays, whose accommodation evidence follows the short-stay rules, and asylum procedures, which have their own system entirely.

The three forms, from the Act

Proof of accommodation — the three documents the Act accepts

Ownership document, or proof of your right to use the dwelling, or the owner’s confirmation with a verified signature

Long-stay visa applications under § 31(1)(d), and the residence applications that reference the same proof. Exactly three forms qualify: a document proving you own the flat or house; a document proving you are entitled to use it (typically your lease); or a written confirmation from the owner or authorised user, with their officially verified signature, that you may live there.

Show the Czech text

The wording the rule above was read from. It is the authoritative text, and it is in Czech.

“§ 31 odst. 5: "Dokladem o zajištění ubytování podle odstavce 1 písm. d) se rozumí doklad o vlastnictví bytu nebo domu, doklad o oprávněnosti užívání bytu anebo domu nebo písemné potvrzení osoby, která je vlastníkem nebo oprávněným uživatelem bytu nebo domu, s jejím úředně ověřeným podpisem, kterým je cizinci udělen souhlas s ubytováním."”

Read from e-sbirka.gov.cz on 14 October 2026Check it yourself

The third form is the workhorse: the owner’s signed confirmation, with the signature officially verified at a Czech POINT, municipal office or notary. An unverified signature is the single most common defect in otherwise complete applications. This site’s form pages carry it ready to print: for an individual owner and for a company.

For tenants: when your lease is the proof

A lease in your name, covering the application period, generally carries the “right to use” form on its own.
Subletting: your right derives from the tenant’s, so offices want the chain visible, the owner’s confirmation cuts through cleanly.
Shared flats: the person on the lease signs the confirmation for you, with the verified signature.

The address you prove here is the address the state will write to, and decisions sent there count as delivered. Keep it real and keep it current, see reporting an address change.

For landlords asked to sign

Signing the confirmation says this person may live at your property, nothing more exotic, and the verified signature protects you as much as them: nobody can extend the paper beyond what you signed. Hosts who register their guests with the police also discharge the guest’s own arrival duty, see the first-weeks answer.

Quick questions

Is an Airbnb booking enough for a long-stay application?: It is none of the three statutory forms. Some offices tolerate transitional arrangements briefly, but the application stands on the Act’s list, get one of the three.
How fresh must the proof be?: It must cover the stay being applied for, and as a supporting document it lives under the 180-day rule where it applies, see the documents answer.
Does the flat have to meet a size standard?: For the proof itself, the Act asks for the document, not square metres. Specific procedures can look harder at real conditions; a mailbox-only address is a risk everywhere.

Official sources, and when we read them

Act 326/1999 Sb., § 31(5), consolidated text in force (2026-06-12) read 14 October 2026

A summary to help you act in time, not legal advice. Rules change; the dates above say when each source was actually read, and the fact boxes carry their own.

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