Travel Visa To Czech Republic

[tjansen]

Can anyone tell me about getting travel visas to the Czech Republic?

I am on a retirement extension living in Thailand. My friend is a Thai citizen.

Thanks for any details.

[nowork114]

Can anyone tell me about getting travel visas to the Czech Republic?

I am on a retirement extension living in Thailand. My friend is a Thai citizen.

Thanks for any details.

Service at Czech Embassy sucks The requirements are as for other Schengen countries, details can be found on their website (www.mzv.cz/bangkok).

1. Be ready for sour faces, you are annoying them (both Thai & Czech staff)

2. Not one-stop service - they like to return you and re-schedule appointment for minor problem

3. The application form is pain in the a$$ - print few copies and fill at home (must be printed in color)

4. Take umbrella and chair (if you can't stand for long time) - they will let you queue in front of the embassy (hot & sunny) and of course no toilet etc.

5. Car park not available - park in Conrad and take motorcycle

6. Security sucks - you have to wait in line, no talking, no phones, no laughing - feel like in prison

7. Long lunch breaks - confirm that staff come back from lunch before going to pick up passport

If you want to go to Eastern Europe, go to Embassy of Slovakia (Sathorn Rd.) - much better service.

Good luck and let us informed how was it.

[Bjorn]

Don't go to the Czech embassy for a visa. The staff there is just crazy! I was there about a year ago applying for a visa to Czech for my Thai wife. They came up with a lot of "necessary" documents needed. I'm sure the Czech people are still communists with a lot of love of Russia.

I believe they simply don't like Thai people. Best would be to get them out of EU.

If you need a visa to schengen countries (which Czech belongs to), then go to another schengen country and get your schengen visa. With a schengen visa you can travel within all schengen countries.

[nowork114]

Don't go to the Czech embassy for a visa. The staff there is just crazy! I was there about a year ago applying for a visa to Czech for my Thai wife. They came up with a lot of "necessary" documents needed. I'm sure the Czech people are still communists with a lot of love of Russia.

I believe they simply don't like Thai people. Best would be to get them out of EU.

If you need a visa to schengen countries (which Czech belongs to), then go to another schengen country and get your schengen visa. With a schengen visa you can travel within all schengen countries.

The problem is not with Czech people, they are indeed OK, but if you give stamp to an idiot... And the Czech Embassy is full of them.

[tjansen]

Don't go to the Czech embassy for a visa. The staff there is just crazy! I was there about a year ago applying for a visa to Czech for my Thai wife. They came up with a lot of "necessary" documents needed. I'm sure the Czech people are still communists with a lot of love of Russia.

I believe they simply don't like Thai people. Best would be to get them out of EU.

If you need a visa to schengen countries (which Czech belongs to), then go to another schengen country and get your schengen visa. With a schengen visa you can travel within all schengen countries.

The problem is not with Czech people, they are indeed OK, but if you give stamp to an idiot... And the Czech Embassy is full of them.

This information is very useful and something I never would have thought of doing. You have confirmed what my friend was hearing about trying to get a Czech visa. As a result, we will very possibly go to some other country for our holiday. However, the option of getting the visa from a different bureau sounds inviting. I have never heard the term schengen. Can you recommend which schengen country's embassy to go to or possibly whether it would be better to go to the EU? We don't live in Bangkok, so we would like to minimize the number of trips.

Thanks once again for a great forum and for knowledgeable information.

[alyx]

Don't go to the Czech embassy for a visa. The staff there is just crazy! I was there about a year ago applying for a visa to Czech for my Thai wife. They came up with a lot of "necessary" documents needed. I'm sure the Czech people are still communists with a lot of love of Russia.

I believe they simply don't like Thai people. Best would be to get them out of EU.

If you need a visa to schengen countries (which Czech belongs to), then go to another schengen country and get your schengen visa. With a schengen visa you can travel within all schengen countries.

The problem is not with Czech people, they are indeed OK, but if you give stamp to an idiot... And the Czech Embassy is full of them.

This information is very useful and something I never would have thought of doing. You have confirmed what my friend was hearing about trying to get a Czech visa. As a result, we will very possibly go to some other country for our holiday. However, the option of getting the visa from a different bureau sounds inviting. I have never heard the term schengen. Can you recommend which schengen country's embassy to go to or possibly whether it would be better to go to the EU? We don't live in Bangkok, so we would like to minimize the number of trips.

Thanks once again for a great forum and for knowledgeable information.

Hey

My friend and I went to Czech before it entered the Schengen (actually six months prior to their entry)

Therefore I applied for my thai friend who was given a one month visa

I was greeted by a natice staff to whom I remirred all necessary documents and he was very helpful. He answered quite a lot of question

Of course it took, at the time, spmething like two weeks to get the visa from them (as they had to refer to their immigration office back home)

I should add that my friend had alreadyy been granted a Schengen visa

Maybe things have changed since 2007 but nothing to do with what has been described on this site

Actually it would be a shame not to go to this country so the best (if you really get the kind of welcome described) so get an EU visa which will allow you to vist many countries in general and this country in particular (you could also try Hungary (fun), Sloveni

a (small but very nice country)