Visa information

As a full time student you should apply for long-term residence permit (for the purpose of studies). The visa application should cost you
2 500 CZK. Here you can download the official information leaflet for visa applicants from the Ministry of Interior.

Once you submit the visa application at the Czech Embassy it might take up to 90 days before your visa is issued. Most of the time it really takes 60-90 days.

For the visa application you will receive from us the following documents:

  • the accomodation contract,
  • admission letter,
  • confirmation of your studies (with the study program and dates),
  • payment confirmation (proof that you have payed the first year tuition fees) – this document is not required so sometimes we just send it scanned in an email,
  • hard copy of the entrance exam result letter (only students who did the entrance exam from 1st August 2019 onwards),
  • hard copy of the nostrification certificate (in case we assisted with that).

All incoming degree students have to arrange a travel health insurance with VZP cooperating with Mendel university. This company has the COVID-19 related situations already covered in the complex travel health insurance. This insurance is usually required once your visa is approved and you are about to get the visa confirmation in your passport/etc. In some countries you will need to have the travel health insurance while submitting the admission documents for visa, see the information at the embassy in your country. You can find information about the health travel insurance companies cooperating with Mendel university here

If your visa is declined, you have three options:

  • appeal against the refusal. For this decision, please contact Dr. Nchor, he has contacts for good lawyers. His email is: dennis.nchor@mendelu.cz
  • let the appeal time pass and apply again
  • ask for refund. Please see our refund policy down the admission process page

Students can be refunded their tuition fee in case of visa refusal or other issues. You will be given the refund if you send us the scanned copy of your visa refusal letter. If you have any other reason for cancelling your application (personal, not being able to get the appointment for visa interview etc.) you will have to wait for the refund till your admission documents expire.

Refund will be calculated as follows:

  • for the applicants for Bachelor program we will deduct CZK 6 000 as the administrative fee plus also all the costs of nostrification and the costs of DHL,
  • for the applicants for Masters program we will deduct CZK 3 000 as the administrative fee plus also all the costs of DHL (we do not deduct the nostrification fee because you pay this separately).

Booking an appointment & Regime student

Booking the appointment for the visa interview can be quite a challenge in some countries.The appointments at the embassy cannot be booked by a third party, with the exception of Regime student list.

This list works in the following countries (at their respective Czech embassies): Ghana, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Togo, Nigeria, Benin, Chad, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Central African Republic, Ukraine, Turkey, Russia, Philippines, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, Republic of Nauru, Vietnam, China, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Sri-Lanka, Bhutan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Barbados, Venezuela, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and Grenadines or Trinidad and Tobago

Regime student countries

The Regime student works from the 15th February till the 10th December each year. There is a pause in the program from the 11th December till the 14th February each year which the government uses for the evaluation of the program.

If your name is on the list it might enable you to get the appointment without the need of booking it yourself.

How does it work?

The university sends every month to the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic a list of students who are accepted for the studies and who already have their nostrification certificates. The Ministry then chooses some of the students who will get the appointment, without the need of booking it through the booking system. The university is not able to prioritize any students for selection and has no say in the selection process. Every month we have no more than 10 candidates out of about 20-30 chosen.
Once the Ministry of Education chooses you and you are called by the embassy you have only one chance. If the embassy turns you down because you did not have your documents ready we cannot put you on the list again and you have to get the appointment by yourself.

So we still advise the students to try to book the appointments themselves, because it cannot be guaranteed that you will be chosen by the Ministry.

How to higher the chances of being chosen by the Ministry of Education
  1. For the September intake have all the admission documents before May, which means applying during winter!
  2. For February intake - have all your admission documents in October, which means applying during summer!