Czechia · Residency by investment
Long-Term Residence Permit for the Purpose of Investment
Open
Last verified July 2026
Open, but this is an industrial-investment permit rather than a wealth-migration product and is not competitive as a golden visa.
Roughly EUR 3m plus 20 jobs for a two-year renewable permit with no citizenship shortcut. The honest advice is that this is not a golden visa and should not be sold as one — recommend it only where the client was investing at that scale anyway for commercial reasons.
Qualifying routes
75M CZK
Significant investment
At least CZK 75,000,000 invested AND at least 20 new jobs created for EU citizens or their family members, sustained for at least 2 years. Up to 60% may be satisfied in tangible or intangible assets, including technology and know-how.
The facts
- Minimum investment
- 75M CZK
- Total landed cost
- CZK 75m (roughly EUR 3m) plus a 20-person payroll sustained for at least two years — realistically EUR 4m+ of committed capital and operating cost
- Timeline
- 3–9 months — Permit granted for 2 years, renewable
- Physical presence
- Genuine investment and business activity
- Family
- spouseminor childrenvia family reunification
- Permanent residency
- 5 years of continuous residence
- Citizenship
- 10 years of lawful residence, or 5 years after obtaining permanent residence — no shortcut for investors
- Language test
- B1 Czech certified by a full ALTE member, plus a civics exam on the constitutional system, culture and history
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- at least CZK 75,000,000 investedat least 20 new jobs for EU citizens or family members, sustained 2 yearsinvestment plan approved
What can go wrong
- No citizenship shortcut whatsoever — the clock still runs 10 years, or 5 after permanent residence.
- The 20-job requirement must be sustained for at least 2 years, and the jobs must be for EU citizens or their family members.
- A 2-year permit for a EUR 3m commitment compares poorly with every other route in this file.
- Specialist surveys of open European golden visas correctly omit Czechia — this is not a wealth-migration product.