Expat Zone

Hello there!

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 Friendly reminder to all of the Brits and their family members out there 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

The deadline for changing your permits to biometric ones is 31. 8. 2022 & appointments for Prague are nearly away, so I strongly recommend booking yours asap‼️

The process consists of 2 meetings (about 2-3 weeks apart, each about 1 hour) and both require your presence:
- 1st is biometry collection (signature, fingerprints, ID photo)
- 2nd is biometry card pickup

You’ll only need your passport, previous residence permit and health insurance card for both meetings. That’s it!

You can book appointments either by:
- using this phone number 974 801 801
- or in person at an MOI - OAMP location
Keep in mind that in some cases each method has different slots, so if one doesn’t work feel free to try the other. 🙂

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 To all people of Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Friends, due to today’s drastic invasion of Russia, anyone who needs help understanding the current regulation in Czechia, how to retain/gain legal status here, how to come safely or bring your endangered family, please do not hesitate to contact EZ.

The consultation will be provided FREE of charge❣️ EZ was never about profiting from misery.

Moreover, this year’s annual donations (2 % of Expat Zone profit) are headed to Ukraine to help people who were hit hardest by the crisis. Let it be as short as possible.

Czechia is ready to provide help, we already have a special visa helping people staying here legally (even on a tourist visa), our minister of defence pledged to support asylum for you as well and more is expected to come in following hours and days.

You are not alone, stay strong. ♥️

Hello there!

This isn’t a paid promo, just sharing something I’m genuinely excited about lately. Language barrier can be a huge obstacle when living in Czechia, especially when it comes to bureaucracy, where finer details can be very significant and I’m determined this tool will help you a great deal.

I’ll cut right to it - for the past few months, I’ve been using this automatic translator to understand documents from all over the world and the output quality is tremendous, incomparable to any machine translator I’ve encountered hitherto 𝗯𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗿.

https://www.deepl.com/translator

That’s it, you’re welcome. 😁 Anyone knew about it? What do you think about the engine?

Take it EZ!

Hello there!

I’m very excited about the latest interview with Pavla Hodinková from Dream Job regarding my new project pertaining to a complete solution for Czech businesses that are looking for new talent from abroad without any extra administrative.

Ultimately, I want to enable my business clients to access the worldwide labour market, which is a sustainable growth solution independent on the local macroeconomic situation. Czechia has been the EU country with the lowest (sometimes 2nd or 3rd) unemployment rate for years, all of that time we’ve been in an economic conjuncture, therefore local businesses (and I can confirm that from practice as well because I'm mainly working with HR/recruitment departments while providing services to my business clientele) are bleeding as they have to invest significant resources into the hiring process (e.g. in IT I've observed even 100 000-150 000 Kč per tried candidate) and even so have a hard time finding some, which means their staff gets often overworked, they can't grow nearly as quickly as they could, which ultimately hurts GDP performance for the whole nation.

Feel free to find out more details regarding this, legal immigration process and safety it ensures at https://dream-job.cz/ziskavani-pracovnich-viz-petr-sezemsky-expatzone-cz/ (sorry to my English connections, this time the interview is in Czech 😅).

Hope you’ll be taking it EZ this weekend! 🤙

Získávání pracovních víz - Petr Sezemský, Expatzone.cz - Agentura Dream Job U nepřipraveného zaměstnavatele je proces delší, jelikož obecně aby bylo možné nabídnout pracovní místo občanům třetích zemí, je nutné jej 10-30 dnů nabízet

This matter isn’t commonly known about EZ, and there’s a reason for it. Despite doing it since 2019 (right when the project became financially self-sustainable), I’ve always felt a bit awkward about sharing it. It always felt like something normal, something you’d take for granted, something anyone successful does. However, since it concerns the money of the client, and isn’t that common after all, I have decided to open up about it.

At minimum, 2 % of what you’re paying Expat Zone after costs is being donated to people living either in warzones or in other insufferable conditions. It’s always being paid for the previous year based on annual net income. I’d hereby like to thank the organisation Člověk v tísni, one of the biggest and most impactful NGOs in Europe, for transparent and effective usage of the finances.

The first year‘s donation went to Afghanistan, mainly to women and children affected by the crisis. The money was spent on temporary shelter, food, water or direct financial support.

The second year’s donation has been sent to Nepal in an emergency fundraiser to help mitigate the impact of one of the worst COVID-19 spikes I’ve gotten to observe (this year’s May) - only 1 % of patients had access to hospital beds, they entirely ran out of oxygen during the worst part of the spike for about a month. The financing was used to buy these and other critical resources, such as respirators and disinfection.

The idea is that it's part of our civic duty to do what each individual can, one small step at a time, to help improve situation in developing countries where safety (something we’re usually not even concerned about) is still valuable commodity. Without safety, you cannot build & develop.

As long as Expat Zone will exist, we’ll be pursuing ways to provide help where it counts. And you as the client are part of it.

Hello there, hope you’re enjoying the summer!

📣 As you may be aware, a new Czech immigration law update just came into legal force on 2. 8. 2021. 🇨🇿

𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀?

🇬🇧 British citizens covered by the Brexit Agreement have to change their residence permits for biometric ones 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝟯𝟭. 𝟴. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘇𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝟯𝟭. 𝟭𝟮. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬, 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 & 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗘𝗨 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹.

🇪🇺 Close & distant EU family members categories have been implemented, distant ones ( 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 ) 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗱𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

💶 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘀 for EU citizens & their family members have been implemented.

🏥 Private health insurance conditions ( 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙋𝙑𝙕𝙋 ).

For any questions, don’t hesitate to send a message.

Otherwise as always, take it EZ! 🤙

Welcome! This page has been created to share practical information mainly relevant to expats living/planning to live in Czechia, consisting of occasional:
- useful tips/news from the MOI practice
- reminders of deadlines related to various obligations
- adventures of your fellow expats

Hope you enjoy! Feel free to share your story as well 🙂

Hello there!

These days aren’t easy, but we’re at the finish line. What always cheers me up are happy endings of a lovely story. For example, here we’re picking up a residence permit with Adventurous Kate, which will enable her to stay here with her love. ❤️

She even wrote few stories about the whole journey in impecable writing if you’re interested 🙂

What’s your favourite story during these days?

Cheers and take it EZ! 🤙

Hello there!


If you run a business affected by government restrictions, you deserve respect for keeping it running all the way down here. This message will hopefully slightly ease the economical burden on you. It won’t take much longer if we stick together.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 (500 Kč/day), if:
- Your business was directly impacted by the restrictions.
- Your business is at least 80% dependant on a business directly impacted by the restrictions (typically by long-term B2B relationship).
- Your business is dependant on closed down business premises.

Need help? Send a message to take it EZ. 🤙

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩: https://ouc.financnisprava.cz/kbv/form/bonus
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬: https://www.financnisprava.cz/cs/financni-sprava/media-a-verejnost/nouzovy-stav/kompenzacni-bonus-podzim-2020/zadost-KB-podzim-2020/zadost-webova-aplikace
𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬: https://www.mpo.cz/en/guidepost/for-the-media/press-releases/measures-concerning-not-only-entrepreneurs-and-sole-traders--254340/

P.S.: There’s also a new compensation bonus approved for 1 000 Kč/day since 1. 2. 2021, if you’ve already gained bonus for part of February and apply for the higher one in the same period, you will be paid the difference, so you won’t lose a crown if you applied for both of them in the same period. See the last link for official detailed information.