Change in registration procedure for applying for Employee Cards at CECO Taipei

An advance appointment for long term visa/stay other than employee card has to be made via visa_taipei@mzv.cz. Subject of the email has to include applicant’s surname and purpose of a requested visa.

Employee Card Applications:

Citizens of Taiwan:

Those interested in arranging an appointment for submitting employee card applications, register at the e-mail address visa_taipei@mzv.cz according to the following rules:

Conditions of the content of the registration e-mail:

1. In the subject of this e-mail must be the applicant's passport number. E-mails containing in the subject information other than the passport number itself will not be taken into consideration.

2. The content of the e-mail must include the following identification data of the applicant: name, surname, date of birth, passport number, contact telephone number and e-mail address.

3. A scan of the employment contract that will be submitted together with the application and a scan of the data page of the passport must be attached to the e-mail application (due to the limited capacity of the registration box the attachments should not be larger than 5MB).

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Citizens of other countries holding a long-term or permanent residence permit in Taiwan:

Important!!! Effective July 1st, 2023 all the residents who want to submit their long term visa/stay at the Czech economic and cultural office in Taipei must prove that they have been staying in Taiwan legitimately and continuously for at least 2 years. In case they are not able to prove it, the application will not be accepted.

Those interested in arranging an appointment for submitting employee card applications, register at the e-mail address employment_taipei@mzv.cz according to the following rules:

Conditions for sending a registration e-mail:

1. Next e-mail registration will take place on January 5th, 2024 at 09:00 a.m. (Taiwan time). E-mails delivered before this date will not be taken into account.

2. Each applicant may send only one e-mail. If one applicant sends more than one e-mail within the given deadline, he/she will be automatically excluded from registration, even if the e-mails are sent from different e-mail addresses. The exclusion notice will only be sent to the applicant's first duplicate e-mail detected.

Conditions of the content of the registration e-mail:

1. In the subject of this e-mail must be the applicant´s passport number. E-mails containing in the subject information other than the passport number itself will not be taken into consideration.

2. The content of the e-mail must include the following identification data of the applicant: name, surname, date of birth, passport number, contact telephone number and e-mail.

3. The e-mail must include a scan of the following documents (due to the limited capacity of the registration box the attachments should not be larger than 5MB):

• scan of document/s proving the applicant's continuous stay in Taiwan for at least two years

• scan of document/s proving the applicant's current residence in Taiwan

• scan of the employment contract that will be submitted together with the application

• scan of the data page if the applicant´s passport

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Without meeting the above requirements, the registration is invalid and will not be taken into consideration. It will be excluded from processing without further reply to the applicant.

All registration emails will be replied within 3 working days.

In case of successful registration, the specific date for an appointment will be sent to you via your contact e-mail. The given date is fixed and can be changed only exceptionally by sending a new request for a new appointment via email visa_taipei@mzv.cz. If all slots for given period are filled, the registration for the that period is terminated and it is necessary to wait until the next registration starts.

Please note that attempts to send registrations in bulk using software tools may be identified as spam by the antispam security of the mzv.cz domain in order to ensure the functionality of the system for all applicants. Such registrations will not be taken into account.

Each e-mail can contain only one adult applicant. If the information requested is incomplete, no appointment will be issued and the e-mail will be discarded as incomplete.

Registration e-mails that have sender-activated functionality of “not being able to send a reply from the mailbox” to which they are delivered will be excluded from registration.

No appointments are offered on Czech national holidays. During Taiwan official holidays, except of those that coincide with Czech national holidays, appointments are offered.

The official languages of the Czech economic and cultural office in Taipei are Czech and English. Applicants for long-term visas and residence permits who cannot communicate in either of these languages need to arrange, at their own expense, an interpreter.

For visa and consular information, we are available on e-mail: taipei_consul@mzv.cz

For more information on long-term visa types/stays and requirements kindly consult the website of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic.