Prague, June 24 (CTK) – Over 6,000 British citizens lived in the Czech Republic at the end of March 2016, including 1,690 with a permanent stay in the country, according to the Interior Ministry’s statistics, which show that the number of British in the country has been on the rise.
However, their real number was probably higher since as EU citizens, the British are not obliged to apply for residence permit in the Czech Republic.
Of the British with the permanent stay status, over 40 percent lived in Prague, as did almost two thirds of those with a temporary stay permit.
In 2007, the Czech immigration office registered 1,201 Britons with permanent stay in the country.
In the first quarter of 2016, permanent stay permits were granted to 32 British citizens, raising their number to 1,690.
The number of the British with temporary stay rose from 2,577 in 2007 to 4,345 this March, 37 of whom were granted it in the first quarter of 2016.
Foreigners can gain a Czech temporary residence permit for a stay exceeding three months.
A permanent residence permit is granted after five years of living in the Czech Republic.
At the end of May, labour offices registered 51 job seekers of British nationality, including six women. A total of 16 British unemployed were eligible to unemployment benefits.
In mid-2015, the Social Security Administration sent Czech pensions to 699 people staying in Britain.
