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Except the shor-term visa the following types of visa exist:

• Airport transit visa: Allows the foreign national to pass through the international transit area without actually entering the territory of the state concerned during a break or a transfer between two parts of an international flight.
• Transit visa: Allows the foreign national who travels from one third country to another to travel through Schengen Area countries. This visa allows its holder for one or more transits providing none of them will take more than five days.
• Long-term visa: Allows the foreign national for entry and residence for more than 90 days in six months and may be granted if it is needed in connection to granting of a residence permit or to fulfil obligations of Slovak Republic arising from international agreements, or if it is in the interest of the Slovak Republic.
• Group visa: Is granted to a group passport (5 to 50 persons) created before the travel from the home country, if the members of the group will enter the territory, stay in the territory and leave the territory as a group.
• Visa with limited territorial validity: This is national visa valid for the Slovak Republic only, it allows transit from the territory of one or more Schengen states with the aim of reaching the territory of Slovakia. It can be granted in connection to a residence permit or in order to comply with obligations arising from international agreements.

How to apply for visa

If you want to apply for visa in order to enter Slovakia, you need to file a visa application at a Slovak diplomatic mission abroad. Do not file the application earlier than 3 months before the planned trip. The diplomatic mission will issue a decision about the application within 30 days of its submission. In the case of citizens of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Moldavia, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine it will issue the decision within 10 days.

You will need the following documents:

(1) filled in and signed form of the application form available in English here,

(2) color photo of your face, 3 X 3.5 cm,

(3) valid passport, it must be valid until at least 3 months after the expiration date of the visa,

(4) documents proving the purpose of the residence, such as

  (a) organized/individual tourism: voucher issued by a travel agency or an invitation issued by a person inviting you or an invitation issued by the alien police department,

  (b) business trips: invitation issued by the business partner or institution, or invitation issued by the alien police department, for repeated business trips submit a co-operation contract with the Slovak company,

  (c) international conferences, seminars, symposia, cultural and sports activities: invitation issued by the organizer of the event, official letter of the sending organization applying for visa for its employee,

  (d) other purposes: other documents confirming the purpose of the trip and residence in Slovakia,

(5) travel ticket or other document: submitting of a roundtrip ticket (flight ticket, bus/train ticket, may not be an open ticket), if travelling by car, submitting a drivers license and technical card, green card (third party liability insurance),

(6) financial status of the applicant: bank statement confirming regular income (salary, retirement pension) for the period of past 6-12 months, or a bank statement (credit card), cash, traveller's checks, confirming that the applicant has at least EUR 56.40 available per every day of residence,

(7) international health insurance: health insurance must be valid in all Schengen states.

Fees: The fee for applying for visa is EUR 60, the fee for applying for long-term visa EUR 99.50.

Visa is granted in the passport as a sticker. After obtaining visa the foreigner is allowed to stay in the Schengen area during the time set out in visa. There is no legal title for visa.

The foreign national that has been granted a visa must report to police department the beginning, location and term of residence. If the foreign national stays in a hotel or other public accommodation facility, the administrator of the facility bears this obligation and the foreign national is not required to report.

Invitation

It is possible that for the visa application you will be asked to submit an invitation verified by a police department. The application to verify the application is submitted at an alien police department on an official form, available here, and a fee of EUR 33 must be paid when submitting the application. The alien police department will decide about the verification of the invitation within 15 days from submitting of the application. The confirmation of verification of the invitation is valid for 90 days.

• If the invitor is an individual: A foreign national may be invited by an individual that is a citizen of the Slovak Republic with permanent residence in Slovakia or a foreign national that has a temporary residence permit or a permanent residence permit. Only relatives may be invited (parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse, etc.), other persons may be invited only with consent of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic. A document confirming the family relationship is attached to the application (original or a verified copy) and the consul may request a document confirming that the applicant is able to cover the costs related to the visit of the foreigner (e.g. a bank statement).
• If the invitor is a legal entity: Legal entity or a sole proprietor may invite to Slovakia a foreign national that performs similar activity. A commercial registry or business registry extract (original or verified copy) is attached to the application and the consul may request a document confirming that the applicant is able to cover the costs related to the visit of the foreigner (e.g. a bank statement).