Visa for a Stay Longer than 90 Days for the Purpose of a Working Holiday

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Information for the citizens of Japan

General Information

Who can apply for a visa for a stay longer than 90 days for the purpose of a working holiday?

You can apply for a long-term visa for the purpose of a working holiday if you are a citizen of Japan, you are between 18 and 30 (including) years of age at the time of application, you are not accompanied by dependent persons, except for persons who hold their own valid visas; and, at the same time, you wish to spend a holiday in the Czech Republic or work occasionally and temporarily here to finance your trip.

Your possible employment must be a secondary purpose of residence.


How long is this visa valid for?

For a maximum of 1 year. At the same time, it is not possible to issue this visa repeatedly to the same person.


What does this type of visa look like?


Is it possible to extend a long-term visa for the purpose of a working holiday?

No, the validity of this residence permit is limited to a maximum of 1 year and it cannot be extended.


What obligations and possibilities does this residence permit mean?

As participants of this programme, you are going to enter the Czech Republic mainly for the purpose of spending a holiday here. You also confirm that you are not going to change the purpose of your residence and that when the visa expires, you will leave the country. In the course of your whole residence in the Czech Republic, you can work here without any additional work permit (you have free access to the labour market). However, work must not be the main purpose of your residence and must only serve the purpose of financing your trip.

You must also follow the obligations for foreigners stipulated by law.

At the same time, with a long-term visa, you can repeatedly leave and re-enter the Czech Republic for the whole duration of the visa’s validity. A long-term visa also entitles you to a short non-profit stay in other Schengen countries.


APPLICATION

How and where can you apply?

You can only apply in person at one of the Czech Republic’s diplomatic missions:

  • in a country that issued you with a travel document or which you are a national of, or
  • if you are already residing in the EU, you can apply at the Dresden visa centre,
  • at any of the Czech Republic’s diplomatic missions if you are a national of one of these countries.

For a list of all the Czech Republic’s diplomatic missions please see the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.


What is the consular fee?

Japanese citizens can apply for this type of a long-term visa free of charge.


STEPS TO FOLLOW IN ORDER TO APPLY:

1. Prepare the necessary documents

To apply you will need:

Please review the formal requirements that the documents must meet.

2. Fill in the application form

You can fill in the application form online. Then print out the filled-in form and sign it.

You can also download a blank application form, print it out and fill it in by hand – it must be filled in legibly, in block capitals and in Latin characters. You can also collect the form free of charge at a Czech Republic’s diplomatic mission

3. Contact the diplomatic mission

Before applying, please contact the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tokyo and make an appointment.

4. Submit the application

You must submit the application in person. In justified cases a diplomatic mission may waive the obligation to submit the application in person. You must add all the documents required by law to the application and use the correct form (printed). If you fail to do so, your application will be considered as inadmissible. Your application together with the documents will be returned to you.

The diplomatic mission’s employees may take your fingerprints and visual record, and they may also do an interview with you.

5. Wait for the decision

The Ministry of the Interior will first assess if your application meets all the formal requirements and it will also check if you meet all the requirements to obtain the residence permit you are applying for. In such case you may be invited for an interview that will be conducted by the diplomatic mission upon the Ministry’s request.

In the course of the administrative proceedings you can:

You can track the state of your proceedings online on the website under Status of my application or in your personal account. For more information on the state of your application you can submit a written application for a notification on the state of the proceedings.

6. Learn the result of the administrative proceedings

On the website under Status of my application you can see the following states:

  • Being processed: No decision has been taken yet. For more information on what you can do in the course of the administrative proceedings please see the previous section.
  • Preliminarily Assessed Positively: The Ministry’s decision has preliminary reached a positive result. Please see the following section.
  • Rejected: Your long-term visa application was rejected – either there is a reason for not granting the visa or your application was deemed inadmissible.
    • There is a reason for not granting the visa: In such case you will receive a notice informing you about the reasons for not granting the visa. You cannot appeal against this notice. If your application is not granted and you disagree with the reasons for not granting the visa, you can apply for a new assessment of the reasons for not granting the visa.
    • Your application was inadmissible. In such case you will receive a notice that the decision has been recorded in the file, explaining why the application was deemed inadmissible. The Ministry will return the whole application (the form, the documents and the consular fee) to you.

7. Collect your visa at the diplomatic mission and provide a proof of medical insurance

If the application is granted, come to the diplomatic mission and collect the visa. A diplomatic mission’s employee will contact you beforehand in order to schedule an appointment with you.

Before receiving the visa in your passport, you must provide a proof of travel medical insurance:

  1. covering emergency and essential care for the first 90 days of your stay in the country together with a proof of comprehensive medical insurance for the rest of your stay, or
  2. directly a proof of comprehensive medical insurance for the entirety of your permitted residence in the country.

For persons under 18 years of age, only travel medical insurance for the first 90 days of stay is required. After collecting long-term residence, persons under 18 years of age automatically become participants in the public health insurance system by law.

The diplomatic mission can also ask you to provide a proof of payment for the insurance. A proof of travel medical insurance is not required in cases stipulated by law (e.g. your medical insurance is provided under an international agreement).

8. Get registered at the Foreign Police upon arrival

You must get registered at the Foreign Police within 3 days from the day you arrived in the Czech Republic.