Bureaucracy
Grouped by life situation, following the official Czech public administration service catalogue, not by which office is responsible. Every procedure lists its steps, the documents to bring and the authority that decides.
Each card gathers the procedures that usually belong together, in the order they normally need doing.
Residence permission, reporting your arrival and the first registrations with deadlines attached.
Employment paperwork, insurance registration by your employer, and how your tax is handled.
Trade licence, IČO, and the tax, social, health and data box duties that follow it.
Who has to be told when you move, and by when.
Getting into the public system, paying for cover yourself, and avoiding gaps.
Whether you file a return, what your employer does for you, and the self-employed regimes.
Registering the vehicle, insuring it, and driving on a foreign licence.
Closing registrations properly so arrears do not follow you abroad.
Enrolment, student residence permission and insurance.
Marrying or entering a partnership here as a foreign national: the registry office, the documents, and what it does not automatically change about your residence.
Registering the birth, sorting the child's residence and insurance, and where family benefits are claimed.
Naturalisation after years of residence: the exams, the paperwork, and whether you can keep your other passport.
All 36 procedures, listed by category. Use search if you already know what you are looking for.
Permits, certificates and staying legally.
Employment contracts, permissions and payroll.
Trade licences, IČO and invoicing.
Enrolment, student residence and insurance.
Who to tell when you move, and by when.
Cover, insurers and avoiding gaps.
Withholding, annual settlement and filing.
Pensions, sickness and contributions.
Registration, insurance and inspections.
Exchanging a foreign licence.
Birth registration, a child’s residence and family benefits.
Naturalisation, the language exam and dual nationality.
Closing registrations so debts do not follow you.
These topics are covered properly by the official newcomer site run with Prague City Hall support, so we point you there rather than duplicating them.
Prague Compass covers birth registration, a child's residence and where family benefits are claimed. Family reunification casework, childcare places and day-to-day parenting support are outside our scope — the official newcomer site, supported by Prague City Hall, has a full section on them.
Visit newinprague.czPrague Compass can explain a procedure, but it cannot sit with you at the counter. Metropole vsech, the city’s integration programme, publishes a list of intercultural workers who interpret and accompany you to offices free of charge — in Ukrainian, Russian, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Romani, English and other languages.
See the list of intercultural workersEnrolling children in Czech schools and recognising foreign qualifications are outside our scope. The official newcomer site covers both.
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