Citizens of Russia to enter the territory of the Czech Republic require a visa. The Czech Republic is a member of the Schengen Agreement. Persons with valid Schengen visas in their passports can freely enter the country by any means of transport.
Types of visas:
Short-term Schengen visa (category C)

– issued to persons whose purpose of visit is tourism, or visiting relatives and friends, or other purposes not related to making a profit on the territory of the Czech Republic.
Long stay visa (category D)

– issued to persons whose purpose of visit is education, entrepreneurship (participation in a legal entity), work, family connection with foreigners living in the Czech Republic for at least 15 months.
Transit visa (category C)

– issued to persons whose purpose of visit is transit through the territory of the Czech Republic to third countries.
Short stay visa

To obtain this visa, you must provide the following documents:

a passport valid for at least 90 days from the end of the trip. The passport must have at least two blank pages for gluing the visa;
a copy of the first page of the passport with the applicant’s data;
a questionnaire filled out in English or Czech and signed personally by the applicant. The questionnaire can be obtained at the consulate or printed from the consulate website (on 2 sheets in both sides). The questionnaire can be completed by hand or on a computer. The questionnaire is filled out legibly, in block letters;
1 color photo 3.5 x 4.5 cm without corners and ovals, on a light background. The photo must be glued to the application form;
in the case of a tourist trip – hotel reservation confirmation (printouts are accepted from the websites of international booking systems, printouts of booking confirmation letters sent from hotels / hostels by e-mail, faxes) or an apartment rental agreement (fax, printout from e-mail), or vouchers of the inviting parties in the Czech Republic (originals, fax copies) with the seal of the travel company. The hotel confirmation must contain the following information: name, address and telephone number of the hotel, names and surnames of tourists, dates of stay, booking number;
in the case of a private or business trip – the original invitation from a natural or legal person;
document (financial guarantee), confirming the availability of sufficient financial resources for the entire period of stay in the Czech Republic and other Schengen countries;
a copy of medical insurance valid for the entire stay and throughout the Schengen area, with an insurance coverage limit of at least 30,000 euros (you must also have the original with you at the time of submission of documents);
a copy of tickets (air, rail, bus) or confirmation of the reservation of round-trip tickets. In the case of a trip by private car – the original and a copy of the driver’s license, vehicle registration certificate;
if a multivisa is requested, it is necessary to provide a plan for all subsequent trips (dates, place of stay) and confirmation of hotel reservations for all subsequent trips;
a copy of the page with the photo and the page with the registration of the civil passport.

Transit visa

Visa-free transit through the territory of the Czech Republic to third countries outside the Schengen area is prohibited, unless the transfer to the next flight is carried out within the next 24 hours, and it is not planned to leave the territory of the airport’s transit zone.

Important! Visa-free transit is allowed only in cases where, when flying between non-Schengen countries, only one Schengen airport is used as a transit airport. If you plan to transfer at two or more Schengen airports (for example, New York – Zurich, Zurich – Prague, Prague – Moscow), a transit visa must be issued in advance.
Visa-free transit is prohibited in cases where the passenger has a ticket with an open date, or when transferring to a connecting flight, it is required to receive and re-register baggage.

In other cases, it is necessary to apply for a transit visa in advance (a Schengen visa of category C is issued, the purpose of the stay is “transit”). To do this, the following documents are submitted to the consulate:

a passport valid for at least 90 days from the end of the trip. The passport must have at least two blank pages for gluing the visa;
a copy of the first page of the passport with the applicant’s data;
a copy of the page with a photo and the page with the registration of a civil passport;
a questionnaire filled out in English or Czech and signed personally by the applicant. The questionnaire can be obtained at the consulate or printed from the consulate website (on 2 sheets in both sides). The questionnaire can be completed by hand or on a computer. The questionnaire is filled out legibly, in block letters;
1 color photo 3.5 x 4.5 cm without corners and ovals, on a light background. The photo must be glued to the application form;
visa of the country of destination, if required;
copies of electronic air tickets or train / bus tickets to the country of destination (or booking tickets);
confirmation of the availability of sufficient financial resources to stay in the Czech Republic;
a copy of medical insurance valid for the entire stay and throughout the Schengen area, with an insurance coverage limit of at least 30,000 euros (you must also have the original with you at the time of submission of documents);
a copy of the page with the photo and the page with the registration of the civil passport.

Rules for issuing invitations from individuals and legal entities

Invitations are provided only in the original, except for cases when the invitation is issued on the official letterhead of a legal entity (the purpose of the trip is business) – in this case, invitations sent by fax are accepted. The business invitation must indicate the purpose of the trip.

If a citizen of the Russian Federation legally residing in the Czech Republic invites his friends or relatives, he must issue an invitation on an official letterhead and have it certified by the Aliens Police or a notary. In the same way, an invitation is issued for friends and acquaintances of Czech citizens or EU citizens living in the Czech Republic.
If a citizen of the Czech Republic or any other EU country, or a citizen of the Russian Federation legally residing in the Czech Republic, invites his close relatives, the invitation is issued in a simple handwritten form and certified by a notary. It is necessary to provide documents confirming the relationship. It is also necessary to provide a completed form Doklad (potvrzení) o zajištění ubytování, a real estate lease agreement, if the inviting person rents an apartment, or an extract from the cadastral register, if the inviting person is the owner of the real estate and financial security documents (bank statement on the state of the account, reference from work, etc.).

The invitation must contain the following information:
– name, surname, passport number and address of the inviting person,
– first name, last name, number the passport of the invited person,
– purpose and timing of the trip,
– information about the nature of the relationship or the degree of kinship between the inviter and the invitee,
– information about who pays for the trip.

If the host party bears the costs of staying in the Czech Republic, the applicant is not required to provide financial guarantees.
Financial guarantees

One of the following documents (original and copy) is attached to the visa application as proof of sufficient financial resources:

– certificate of employment indicating salary, or
– an extract from the applicant’s bank account, certified by the seal of the bank and the signature of a bank employee, with confirmation of the balance of funds on the account, which must correspond to the amounts indicated below, sufficient for staying in the Czech Republic (it is desirable that the certificate reflects the movement of funds on the account for the last three months), or
– certificate in the form 2-NDFL, or
– a certificate in the form 3-NDFL with the seal of the Federal Tax Service, as well as the original and a copy of the certificate of making an entry in the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs, or
– traveler’s checks indicating the owner and a receipt for their purchase.

Sufficient financial means to stay in the Czech Republic:

1010 CZK (possibly in EUR or other currency) for 1 day – when traveling for up to 30 days;
34340 CZK (possibly in EUR or other currency) – when traveling for up to 60 days;
38380 CZK (possibly in EUR or other currency) – when traveling for up to 90 days.

Persons under 18 years of age must have, depending on the length of stay, half of the amounts indicated.

The submitted financial documents must be issued no earlier than 6 months before the date of submission of the visa application.