Visa for a Stay Longer than 90 Days for the Purpose of a Working Holiday
Route status
Open to new applications under the rules recorded below.
| Nationality restrictions |
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| Open only to nationals of | Chile, Peru, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan as of 2026-07-27[1] The nine partners the route page carries a tab for. Australia and Taiwan have no published conditions on the page: it directs applicants to the Consulate General in Sydney or the Czech Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei instead, so the age band, quota and fee for those two are not established here. |
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Vízum k pobytu nad 90 dnů za účelem pracovní dovolené (Working Holiday) as of 2026-07-27[1] |
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| Official name (English) | Visa for a Stay Longer than 90 Days for the Purpose of a Working Holiday as of 2026-07-27[1] The Ministry of the Interior's own English page heading. |
| Legal basis | Act No. 326/1999 Coll., s. 30(1) with s. 30(3); the eligibility conditions, age band, quota and repeatability come from the bilateral agreement with each partner state rather than from the Act as of 2026-07-27[1][2] |
| Instrument type | national visa as of 2026-06-12[2] A visa for a stay longer than 90 days. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA as of 2026-07-27[1] |
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| Minimum age | 18 as of 2026-07-27[1] |
| Criminal-record condition | Not established from a qualifying source The route page does not list documents per partner in the section read, and the conditions are treaty-based. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 1 year as of 2026-07-27[1][2] 1 year on every published partner tab, which is also the s. 30(3) ceiling for a long-term visa. |
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| How the initial term is set | fixed |
| Renewable | No as of 2026-07-27[1] 'No, the validity of this residence permit is limited to 1 year and it cannot be extended.' Most partners also bar a second grant to the same person; Canada allows the visa to be obtained at most twice, and Peru restricts it to applicants who have not participated before. |
| Maximum total duration | up to 1 year as of 2026-07-27[1] 1 year, except on the Canada tab, where the visa may be obtained at most twice. |
| Work rights | full as of 2026-07-27[1] 'As long as the residence permit is valid, you can work in the Czech Republic (you have free access to the labour market) for the entirety of your stay.' The treaties nonetheless make employment a secondary purpose: 'Your possible employment must be a secondary purpose of residence.' That is a condition on the purpose of stay rather than on the right to work, and the vocabulary cannot express both at once. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2026-06-12[2] s. 68(2)(a) counts time on a long-term visa toward the 5 years, and s. 68(3) does not list the working-holiday visa among the excluded stays – unlike the seasonal-employment visa and the special work visa, which it names expressly. Recorded on that closed-list reading; no source states it affirmatively, and the visa's own 1-year non-extendable ceiling means the 5 years cannot be reached on this instrument alone. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | No as of 2026-07-27[1] The purpose is a holiday with incidental work; no offer is required and employment must be secondary. |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-07-27[1] The holder has free access to the labour market, so no per-job test arises. |
| Qualification requirement | none as of 2026-07-27[1] No qualification condition on any published partner tab. |
| Employer sponsorship | No as of 2026-07-27[1] No employer is involved in the grant. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-07-27[1] Not a post-study job-search instrument; the purpose is a working holiday. |
Process
| Where to apply from | from abroad only as of 2026-07-27[1] 'You can only apply in person at one of the Czech Republic's diplomatic missions', or at the Dresden visa centre if already residing in the EU. |
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| Statutory processing time | Not established from a qualifying source The route page states no decision period for this visa on any partner tab. |
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Physical presence
| none stated | to keep the permit as of 2026-07-27[1][2] Neither the governing provision nor the route page states a day count, a maximum absence or a reporting obligation for keeping this permit. What the Information Portal states instead is qualitative: 'You must fulfil the purpose of your stay for the whole duration of your residence permit.' s. 155b applies to long-term residence permits, not to visas. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | No as of 2026-07-27[1] Every published partner tab requires that the applicant 'not be accompanied by dependent persons', and a long-term visa is in any case not a qualifying sponsor status under s. 42a(7)(a). |
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| Eligible relations | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-07-27[1] |
| Family may apply at the same time | No as of 2026-07-27[1] Follows from allowed = false. |
| Family members' work rights | Not applicable No dependants can be admitted on this instrument. |
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Verification
| Sources cited | 2 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 2 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-06-12 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-07-27 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-26 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Visa for a Stay Longer than 90 Days for the Purpose of a Working Holiday
Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-07-27 · Accessed 2026-08-23 · Archived copy - [2] Zakon c. 326/1999 Sb., o pobytu cizincu na uzemi Ceske republiky a o zmene nekterych zakonu – consolidated text
Ministerstvo vnitra CR / e-Sbirka · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2026-06-12 · Accessed 2026-08-22