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.
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 3 of the 26 figures we track today.
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 planner, the guides, all 45 official forms and the Czech exam practice are free, and the planner needs no account and no email address.
One permit is finished. The rest is honest about what it is.
Employee Card (zaměstnanecká karta)
The full guide, the three 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.
- Step-by-step guide in English
- Three official forms, with the fields people get wrong
- Document checklist with what each one has to prove
- Fees, filing windows and decision deadlines, each with its source
Everything else
Permanent residence, citizenship, students, business and freelance, family reunification, EU citizens and their families. You get the forms, the fee data and the official source for each one — but the depth varies, and some of these have a page where the Employee Card has a guide. We would rather tell you that now.
The right form, the right fee, the right date.
The right form
All 45 official forms, in English, with what to attach and the fields that catch people out.
The right fee
What you pay, where you pay it, and who it applies to — with the page it was read from and the date.
The right date
Your filing window, permit validity and passport expiry on one screen, each with the rule behind it. You check it; nothing emails you.
Also here, and free: Czech exam practice for A2 (permanent residence) and B1 plus reálie (citizenship), a § 80 complaint letter generator for an application that has gone quiet, in-depth guides and a CZ/EN glossary.
Most of it is free to read.
The planner, the guides, all 45 forms, the checklists, the exam practice and the letter generator cost nothing. Pro adds one thing: an assistant that knows your case instead of answering in general.
