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Long-term business visa (živno / trade licence option). The Czech Republic has no separate digital-nomad visa; freelancers instead take out a trade licence (živnostenský list) and apply for a long-term business visa, in practice the country’s remote-worker option.

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Long-term business visa (živno / trade licence option)

A long-term visa (type D/VC/06) usually issued for up to 1 year, renewable, and convertible into a longer-term residence permit for business.

Who qualifies

Obtain a Czech trade licence for an unregulated trade (volná živnost), which covers most freelance and consulting work and needs no local qualification.
Trade Licensing Act (455/1991 Sb.)
Show funds of 50 times the monthly subsistence minimum (existenční minimum), which has held at CZK 3,130 a month, so CZK 156,500 (about $7,380 at CZK 1 = $0.047) in total, and health insurance of at least €30,000 (about $33,000).
Ministry of the Interior; Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MPSV), subsistence-minimum decree

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

It could fit.

The Czech Republic has no separate digital-nomad visa; freelancers instead take out a trade licence (živnostenský list) and apply for a long-term business visa, in practice the country’s remote-worker option.

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Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Time: 2–4 months for the trade licence and visa together; renewals typically take 60–90 days.
Cost: About $500–1,000: the CZK 5,000 (about $235) visa fee, the trade-licence fee, insurance, and translations.
The hard part: There is no fixed income bar, so the burden falls on documenting genuine, ongoing freelance income once resident, and the visa becomes tax residence after 183 days.

Citizens by 2038.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

2027
First residence permit
1 year, renewable for 2 years at a time.
2028
Renew the permit
Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 2 years.
2030
Renew the permit
Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 2 years.
2032
Permanent residence
Five years of continuous residence (long-term visas and permits count in full, study time at half), then a Czech exam at A2.
2037
Apply for citizenship
With a language test and a civics test.
2038
Citizenship
The decision usually takes 0–6 months.

Language: Czech at B1, by the state exam. Not needed after three school years taught in Czech, or under 15 or over 65.
Civics: A test on Czech society: the constitutional system, culture, history and geography.
Time away: You must actually live in Czechia for at least half of the qualifying period. Single trips of up to 2 months in a row, or 6 months for a serious reason, still count as time in the country.
Two passports: Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.

The business visa lasts at most a year; staying longer means switching to a long-term residence permit for business, issued for up to 2 years. Both count in full toward the 5 years.

The law behind these dates

Living there.

Time you must spend there: No day-count to keep the visa itself, but continuity of residence for the later permanent-residence clock generally means not being outside the Czech Republic for more than 6 consecutive months at a time.
Tax: Becomes Czech tax residence after 183 days in a calendar year, triggering worldwide taxation and mandatory social and health contributions on trade income.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

Start today.

Read the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ page on the long-term business visa.Open mzv.gov.cz ↗
Gather these documents.
- The business plan, and the endorsement or approval it needs
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health insurance that meets the program’s rules

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