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Work & Life
98 articles43 guides · 51 explainers · 3 lists · 1 FAQUpdated 13 Oct 2026
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Family reunification in Czechia: who can join whom, and on what basis
Your spouse's right to join you depends less on love than on your own permit: its type, its age and what you can show the Ministry. The rules by sponsor type.
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Filing a Czech tax return: who must, when, and where to click
Most employees on one payroll never file. Self-employed people and anyone with a second income do, and the deadline depends on how you submit.
- Guide6 min
Finding a Czech GP: how registration really works
No postcode lottery and no waiting list: you build your own shortlist and ask each surgery one question. How to get on a doctor's list before you need it.
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Finding a job in Czechia as a foreigner: channels, language and permits
An English-speaking job in Prague is easy to find and hard to keep without the right permit. Where vacancies sit, and what each passport has to settle first.
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Finding an English-speaking doctor in Czechia without a stale list
Online lists of named doctors age badly. Five routes that give a current answer, the questions to ask on the phone, and what to do when nobody speaks English.
- Guide6 min
Freelancing in Czechia: how to get a trade licence (živnost)
You probably do not need a company. The sole trader's trade licence is a registration, not an exam, but your residence permit has to allow it first.
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Getting a Czech driving licence as a foreigner: exchange or start again
Two doors lead to the same card: swap the licence you hold, or pass the Czech test. Which door you get depends on where the old licence came from.
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Grocery prices in Czechia compared with the euro area: what the data say
Food in Czechia is cheaper than in Germany and dearer than your pay packet suggests. How the comparisons are built, and why the crown moves the result.
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How Czech healthcare is organised: insurers, GPs, specialists, hospitals
Insurers buy care, they do not provide it. Follow the money and the usual path, and the many doors of the Czech system stop looking random.
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How Czech public schools work: nine years, one big choice at 11 or 15
Czech children start school at six, can leave for a grammar school at 11 and sit a national leaving exam at 18 or 19. The stages, the calendar and what is free.
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How the Czech minimum wage works: set by decree, enforced by inspectors
The government sets the floor each year, but a floor is not a salary guide. What counts towards it, what the guaranteed wage was and how underpayment is chased.
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How to pay Czech taxes from abroad without missing the deadline
Czech tax counts as paid only when the money reaches the tax office's account, so a transfer sent on deadline day is already late. How to pay from abroad.
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International schools in Czechia: how to choose without a league table
Fees, curricula and accreditation tell you more than any ranking. What the IB, British and American labels mean here, and the questions that expose differences.
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Learning Czech as an adult: five routes compared on time and effort
Seven cases will not yield to an app alone. Courses, tutors, self-study, work and immersion compared by the time and effort they demand, not by their marketing.
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Leaving Czechia: how to close accounts, insurance and tax in order
A lease with a notice trap, a car that keeps accruing insurance charges and a flat that may lose its tax exemption. The order in which to close things.
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Living on a Czech average salary in Prague: four budget scenarios
Whether an average wage works in Prague depends less on the wage than on how much of it the flat takes. Four households, one method, and no invented rents.
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Moving to Czechia from the United Kingdom: the post-Brexit rules
The British passport that once let you move to Prague on a whim now buys 90 days. What changed in 2021, which routes remain, and what to settle before you fly.
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Moving to Czechia from the United States: permits, taxes, first steps
Americans can arrive on a passport and stay 90 days. Staying longer needs a permit applied for in advance, and a US tax return follows you across the Atlantic.
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Moving to Prague: a complete step-by-step plan
Order matters more than speed. The permit comes before the lease, the lease before the registration, and the registration before most of what follows.
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Nostrification: how Czechia recognises a foreign diploma
Recognition is not one process but three, and for many jobs you need none of them. Who decides, what you submit and when a plain translation is enough.
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Opening a Czech bank account as a foreigner: documents and dead ends
Your employer, landlord and utilities all assume you have one. What banks ask for, the basic account you have a right to, and the order that avoids loops.
- FAQ6 min
Opening a Czech bank account without a residence permit: what is possible
Some Czech banks open accounts for non-residents and some do not, and EU and non-EU citizens fare differently. What to bring and what to do if refused.
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Paid leave in Czechia compared with the UK and Germany
Four weeks is the Czech legal minimum; the UK and Germany set theirs differently. How holiday entitlement and public holidays add up across the three.
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Permanent residence in Czechia: five years, an exam, no long gaps
The standard route asks for five years of continuous residence. The catch is how 'continuous' is counted, and a Czech exam that sits between you and the card.