In this article, our immigration experts answer all most common questions about Czech Partnership Visa. If you have any questions about the Czech Republic’s Partnership Visa that have not been answered here, get in touch with us and we’ll be happy to answer you directly or add the answer here.
How to apply for a partner visa in the Czech Republic?
Step 1 – check if you qualify for the partner visa
Czech partner visa or a partnership visa is only meant for couple where one of you is an EU citizen. If both of you are non-EU citizens, the partner or partnership visa does not apply to you.
Step 2 – come to the Czech Republic under correct type of short-term visa
Depending on your nationality, this step might be either super simple (i.e. for nationalities which have the 90 days visa-free stay option) or super complicated (if you can not come visa-free, you must get one special type of short-term visa – for visiting your EU family member).
Step 3 – submit all your partner visa documents to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI)
You must submit all the documents in person and while your visa-free stay or the special short-term visa is still valid. You submit the application to the MOI responsible for the area of where you live.
We describe the whole process in more details in this article about the partnership visa.
How to be eligible for partner visa?
In the Czech Republic there are a few major requirements to be eligible for the partner or partnership visa:
1. You must be in a serious long-term relationship similar to a marriage.
There is no exact specification what exactly this means. Generally speaking though, you should be together for at least about a year, no online/distant relationship, you should live together, travel together, share finances to some extent, know each other families etc.
2. You must make enough money (in the Czech Republic) on monthly basis
For unmarried couples, there is a requirement of making enough money on monthly basis. If you do not make enough money on monthly basis, your partner or partnership visa will be denied. Good news is that the amount to make is actually not that high. Bad news is that it might be more complicated to prove than it might sound.
The only simple way to do so is to be employed in a Czech company and have high enough salary. Anything else than that (i.e. being a freelancer in CZE, being employed outside of CZE, or worst of the worst being a freelancer outside of the Czech Republic) can make the whole partner visa application to complicated.
3. You must live together in the Czech Republic
As part of the partnership visa application is a visit from the Foreign Police in your apartment, you must live together in the Czech Republic.
More qualification requirements in this article about the latest updates in the Czech Partnership Visa.
Is it hard to get a Czech partnership visa?
Getting the Czech partnership visa follows the general rules of Czech immigration. One, obvious, part of the immigration processes in the Czech Republic is to have ALL the required documents, in the required form. This is the very minimum baseline and just having all the requirements does not mean you will get the visa approved. It is just the main pre-requisite.
The part that decides if you get the visa or not is your “real intentions” and documents and information proving your purpose of stay.
For example, if you are applying for a business visa but you can not really explain your business plan and you do not have any documents to back it up, you will most likely get denied. Similarly, if you are applying for a student visa but you do not even remember the address of your school, probably you will get denied.
Same applies to the partner visa. If you are faking your relationship, it will be hard and you will most likely get denied. If your relationship is not really “long-term and serious ” (i.e. you only know each other online, or you have been together for just a few months), you will most likely be denied.
If you have been together for five years, lived together in two countries, traveled to eight others, have a join bank account, know each others families etc., you will very likely get the partner visa approved.
How long do you have to be with someone to get Czech partner visa?
Czech Immigration law does not specifically say that you must be together for a certain period of time. It says though, that you must be in a serious long-term relationship (similar to a marriage). From our experience with about 1 000 successful partnership visa applications, the ideal minimum duration of the relationship is at least one year.
Although we have worked with couples who had been together shorter than that, the outcome is then very individual and the case can take longer to get approved with more hurdles along the way. One of the important parts is also the intensity of your relationship.
If you “have been together for a year” but that means you have only known each other online and never seen each other in real life, your chances of approval are pretty low. If you have been together for a year meaning you have been living together for 9 months out of those 12, you have a join bank account, have traveled to many countries and attended your sister’s wedding together, approving your application will be way easier.
Contact us if you want to discuss your case to see if you qualify for the partnership visa.
Can you get a Czech partner visa if you don’t live together?
Simple answer here is no, you can not get the Czech partnership visa is you do not live together. There are two main reason for that:
1. You must be in a serious long-term relationship similar to a marriage. Not living together does not seem serious, and definitely not similar to a marriage (unless right before divorce).
2. One of the steps in the Czech partnership visa process is two Foreign Police officers visiting you in your apartment to check if you live together. If you don’t, that is a simple reason to deny your application.
Do you have any further questions about the Czech Partnership Visa? Get in touch and we’ll be happy to answer them or help you get the visa as we have done with a 1 000 couples so far 🙂
