Organization : Ministry of Interior
Facility : Extension of the Validity of an Employee Card
Country : Czech Republic
Website : http://www.mvcr.cz/mvcren/article/employee-card-682810.aspx?q=Y2hudW09Nw%3d%3d
Extension Validity of an Employee Card :
The validity of an employee card can be repeatedly extended, provided principally that the same conditions applicable to the issue of an employee card are met,
Related : Ministry of Interior Procedure for Granting International Protection Czech Republic : www.statusin.org/39754.html
and can be extended for the period for which a contract of employment or an agreement of work activity has been entered into but not for more than 2 years.
In the case of a job performed on an employment permit, the validity of the employee card will be extended for a period corresponding to the period stated in the decision on extension of the employment permit.
An application for extension of the validity of an employee card is to be filed at an office of the Ministry of the Interior.
You must file the application no sooner than 120 days before expiration of the validity of the current employee card and the last day of the validity of the employee card at the latest.
Due to the fact that the fiction of validity of the current employee card apply to the permission to work in the job, for which the employee card was issued (see below for more information).
You can work still on current position, if you are submitting the extension of employee card on the same position, that you are practicing already. This shall not apply, if it is a job on which is, according to the Employment Act, requiring a work permit.
If reasons beyond the control of a foreign national prevented him or her from filing an application for extension of the validity of his or her employee card within the prescribed deadline, he or she shall be entitled to file the application within 5 working days after such reasons cease to exist.
Until the expiration of this authorisation, the residence permit and work permit will be considered to be valid.
It is the responsibility of the foreign national to cite and prove those reasons which prevented him or her from filing the application within the prescribed limits, that is, no sooner than 120 days and no later than 30 days before expiration of the validity of the current employee card, to the administrative authority of his or her own initiative. The foreign national has the obligation to state and prove these reasons.
Required Attachments to an Application for Extension of the Validity of an Employee Card :
An application for extension of an employee card is to be filed on a special form entitled “Application for an Employee Card”.
A foreign national is required to attach the following to an application for extension of the validity of his or her employee card :
** a travel document,
** a document confirming availability of accommodation,
** a contract of employment or an agreement on work activity (or else an amendment to the contract or agreement on extension for the period, for which the extension of the employee card is applied for),
** a decision of the Employment Agency to extend the employment permit – this only applies to an employee card, which is of non-dual nature with an employment permit (see the section Special Cases / Non-Dual Mode of an Employee Card) or in the event that the foreign national has changed his or her job position to a position, for which an employment permit has been issued to him or her, during his or her stay with an employee card,
** documents proving the professional qualifications for performance of the requested job,
** the obligation to submit this attachment only applies to an employee card of a dual nature, and specifically only if the document previously submitted to the OAMP ceased to be valid (for example, if a certificate on acquisition of professional qualifications, which the foreign national had attached to the application for an employee card, was limited in time and is already invalid at the time when the application for extension of the validity of the employee card is to be decided on),
** upon request, a document similar to an extract from the Register of Criminal Records,
** upon request, a document proving the fulfilment of conditions set out in the measure of the Ministry of Health on prevention of the spread of infectious illnesses (Medical report),
** a photograph, if the appearance of the foreign national has changed.
If you meet the conditions for extension of the validity of your employee card, you are obliged to appear in person at the MoI CR upon request for the processing of the information necessary for issue of an employee card, including the acquisition of your biometric data.
Failure to appear at the MoI CR upon request is a reason for discontinuing the proceedings on your application.