Obligations of Third-Country Nationals After Being Granted Temporary Residence

  • to submit, upon request of the police department or a diplomatic mission, to the collection of biometric data for the purposes of proceedings under the Act on the Residence of Foreigners,
  • to enter the territory of the Slovak Republic within 180 days from the granting of residence,
  • to report the place of residence (to notify the commencement of residence within 3 working days, unless this is reported by the accommodation facility),
  • within three working days from receiving the residence document, to conclude health insurance,
  • within 30 days from receiving the residence document, to submit a medical report confirming that the foreign national does not suffer from a disease endangering public health,
  • within 30 days from receiving the foreigner’s residence document, to submit a document confirming health insurance.

Obligations of Foreign Nationals During Their Stay

  • to provide truthfully and fully all data required within the scope of the Act on the Residence of Foreigners,
  • to protect residence documents against loss, theft, damage, or misuse,
  • to provide data necessary for statistical monitoring of residence,
  • to report the loss, theft, or damage of a travel document or a residence document within 5 working days from the moment they became aware of it,
  • to apply for the issuance of a new residence document within 5 working days if the entries in the document do not correspond to reality, or if the document has been lost, stolen, damaged, or misused,
  • to surrender without delay any invalid residence document or a found residence document belonging to another foreign national to the police department,
  • to report within 5 working days all important changes (change of name, address, personal status, nationality, data in travel documents),
  • upon request of a police officer or gendarme, to prove identity and the legality of residence by presenting a valid travel document and residence document,
  • to present a travel document upon request of the accommodation provider,
  • to appear upon summons at the police department in connection with proceedings conducted under the Act on the Residence of Foreigners,
  • to notify the police department if they will stay outside the place of granted residence within Slovakia for more than 30 consecutive days,
  • to notify in writing the police department if they will stay outside the territory of the Slovak Republic for more than 180 consecutive days,
  • during a check, to demonstrate financial means sufficient to cover the stay at least in the amount of the subsistence minimum for each remaining month of residence (up to a maximum of one year in advance),
  • to notify the police department within 3 working days that the purpose for which the residence was granted has ceased to exist,
  • to leave the territory of the Slovak Republic no later than on the last day of authorised residence,
  • to stay in the territory of the Slovak Republic for more than half of the period of granted temporary residence in a calendar year.

Business Activities

  • the statutory body must have an activated electronic mailbox.

Tax Obligations

A taxpayer with unlimited tax liability in the Slovak Republic is a natural person who has permanent residence in the territory of the Slovak Republic or who is ordinarily resident there; a natural person is considered ordinarily resident in the territory of the Slovak Republic if they do not have permanent residence there but stay in the territory of the Slovak Republic for at least 183 days in the relevant calendar year, continuously or in several periods. Every day of the stay, including the day on which the stay began, is counted.

A foreign national conducting business in the Slovak Republic must apply to the Tax Office for income tax registration.

The obligation to register for value added tax (VAT) arises upon reaching a turnover of EUR 50,000 within 12 consecutive calendar months.

Even without reaching the required turnover, it is possible to apply for voluntary VAT registration.

To file an income tax return by 31 March for the previous tax period; an income tax return must be filed by legal entities and natural persons whose taxable income in the calendar year exceeded EUR 2,823.24 (total taxable income also includes income from foreign sources in the case of a taxpayer with unlimited tax liability).

Obligations Upon the Birth of a Child

  • to notify the registry office competent according to the place of birth of the child (the notification is usually made by the physician),
  • the registry office issues a Slovak birth certificate (this does not mean that the child acquires Slovak citizenship),
  • to apply for the child to be entered in the parent’s travel document or to apply for the issuance of the child’s own travel document (at the diplomatic mission of the home country or in the home country),
  • within 90 days, to apply for the granting of a residence permit for the child of the same type as that held by the parent (if the parents hold different types of residence permits, the child will be granted the more favourable type),
  • if the application for the child’s residence permit is not submitted within 90 days, the child must leave the territory of the Slovak Republic within the same period,
  • during the first 60 days after birth, the child is insured by law in the same health insurance company in which the mother is or was publicly insured – if the mother was not publicly insured, the child is insured in the General Health Insurance Company (VŠZP). Within 60 days, the parent is obliged to register the child with a public or commercial health insurance company (the child may be publicly insured only if it has permanent residence in the Slovak Republic; if the child does not have permanent residence yet, it must be insured in a commercial health insurance company for the time being).

Medical Examination of Foreign Nationals for the Foreign Police / Medical Report for Foreign Nationals

Medical examinations for foreign nationals in Zlaté Moravce are available without prior appointment.

Tel.: 0948 350 123

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