General rules and list of documents required for personally submitting an application to foreign police (cudzinecká polícia).
Applying for a residence permit via family reunification for citizens of non-EU countries.
1) Applicant’s form
Žiadosť o udelenie prechodného pobytu – application for a residence permit.
You can download the žiadosť o udelenie prechodného pobytu form on our website and fill it out on your computer or by hand.
The form must be completed on Slovak language.
2) Proof of accommodation in Slovakia
Čestné vyhlásenie vlastníka nehnuteľnosti – declaration from the property owner.
You can download the sample from our website and fill it out manually.
The document must be completed in Slovak or Czech and certified by a Slovak or Czech notary, or personally signed at the foreign police department when submitting documents.
or
Nájomná zmluva – rental agreement.
It’s necessary to prepare a separate copy or a notarized copy of the agreement for submission to the police.
The document must be completed in Slovak or Czech and certified with the seal of the institution.
or
Potvrdenie ubytovacieho zariadenia – confirmation of accommodation.
Handed out when living in dormitories, hostels, hotels, etc.
The document must be completed in Slovak or Czech and certified with the seal of the institution.
or
Elektronický súhlas o zabezpečení ubytovania – electronic consent of the property owner to provide accommodation.
It is submitted directly by the property owner(s) via the Slovak Ministry of the Interior’s e-services portal.
It is also important to note:
1) Any proof of accommodation must be issued for a period of at least 6 months.
2) The addresses of the guarantor and the applicant for reunion must match.
3) Original passport
Cestovný pas – international passport.
The passport must be valid at the time of documents submission.
Police officer will make a copy of the passport and return it to the applicant.
4) Proof of grounds for family reunification
Rodný list – birth certificate.
It’s necessary to affix an apostille to the original document. Make a copy of the document by a Slovak notary. Next, this copy must be translated by a court translator into Slovak. The resulting translation will be certified by the translator’s seal.
If the registry doesn’t have a translator from the original language of the document, then you can use the services of a court translator in the Czech Republic. In this case, documents translated into Czech will be accepted by the Foreign Police.
5) Declaration that the child isn’t married
Čestné vyhlásenie, že dieťa je slobodné – declaration of unmarried status.
You can download the sample from our website and fill it out manually.
The document must be completed in Slovak or Czech and certified by a Slovak or Czech notary, or personally signed at the foreign police department when submitting documents.
Important: the document is filled out for a child of any age!
6) Proof of no criminal record
Výpis z registra trestov z krajiny občianstva – criminal record certificate from the country of citizenship.
The certificate is required starting from the age of 14.
You must have the original certificate with you or its notarized copy with a court translation into Slovak or Czech. The original certificate must be apostilled in advance.
Important!
If the applicant has lived in any country for more than 90 days in 6 months period over the last 3 years or has not lived, but has the appropriate mark or national visa D in his current passport, he will additionally need to present no crime record from all those countries that he visited.
Such a certificate must first be apostilled and translated into Slovak or Czech.
If the applicant holds two or more citizenships, there may appear a request to provide all valid passports.
At discretion of the police officer, there may also be a request to provide no crime records from all countries, of which the applicant is a citizen.
7) Consent of the second parent
Súhlas rodiča – confirmation of the second parent’s consent.
Confirmation is the written consent of the second parent with his/her child getting a residence permit in Slovakia. Such a statement can be certified either by a Slovak notary, in which case no additional actions are required, or certified by a foreign notary, in which case it’s certified by an apostille and requires translation into Slovak or Czech by a court translator.
Confirmation isn’t required if we are talking about the reunion of a common child of the guarantor and the spouse of the guarantor, i.e. parents are legally married. Accordingly, it will be necessary to provide proof of marriage – Sobášny list (marriage registration certificate).
Despite of no requirement to provide this document in the Law on Foreigners №404/2011 (paragraph 27, section 4) for case described above (common child), in the majority of cases, the police officer accepting documents for consideration will request it.
Also important to note:
Applying for a residence permit for family reunification does not require the guarantor’s residence permit to be already approved!
The administrative fee amount for issuing an ID-card (karta pobytu) can be found on our website.
This information cannot be used as legal advice.