Slovakia: Visa for Highly-Skilled Foreign Nationals and Relocated Employees Now Available

Details

• • Managers and highly-skilled specialists (defined as ‘an expert requiring exceptional professional knowledge, skills, abilities, knowledge, qualifications, and experience necessary for operation or management’) seeking relocation to a Slovakian entity of their current employer qualify for the National Visa. Occupations must be specified within the Slovakian statistical classification index.

     

  • Individuals must have been employed with the sponsoring company for a period of time that the government has not yet clarified. An employment contract is required once the applicant commences work in Slovakia

• • This visa is also suitable for graduates of certain higher education universities within Slovakia or the Czech Republic; a higher educational institution listed in relevant regulations or of an equivalent education according to the European Qualification Framework certain research institutions; or graduates of certain higher education universities who will be employed in certain occupations.

  • An employment contract is not required for application purposes, but an offer of employment is required.

     

     

• • Employers must submit a list of relocated employees and their occupation codes to immigration authorities.
  • If the list is approved, the National Visa application is submitted either at the Slovak embassy/Foreign Police or with the Foreign Police in Slovakia.
  • After commencing employment, all applicants must notify the Labour Office Registration of their stay within seven days.

• • Applicants must submit an  application at a Slovakian embassy/Foreign Police or in Slovakia to the Foreign Police in person.
  • After commencing employment, all applicants must notify the Labour Office Registration of their stay within seven days.