Nine Purposes, Nine Special Activities and Five National Visas, and Living on Your Own Money Is on None of the Three Lists
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Grenada on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
154 exceptions recorded across 56 countries · none match Grenada to Slovakia · Residency on passive income
Slovakia has no passive-income or self-sufficiency residence category, and the way the Act is built makes that a finding rather than a gap. Section 21(1) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z. lists the purposes for which temporary residence may be granted and there are nine of them: business, employment, study, special activity, research and development, family reunification, service duties in civilian components of the armed forces, the status of a Slovak living abroad, and the status of a long-term resident in another member state. Section 20(2) then ties the residence to one purpose. The widest-sounding of the nine, special activity under section 25(1), is itself a closed list of nine named activities - lecturing, art, sport, a traineeship, a government or Union programme, a treaty obligation, health care, volunteering, journalism - and it opens by excluding a business person. The only long-stay permission outside those titles is the national visa in section 15(1), and its five grounds are an existing residence, a pending residence application, a language school of at least 25 hours a week, the interest of the Slovak Republic, and a treaty obligation. There is no tenth door. What the Act does ask of everyone who holds residence is money: section 111(1)(e) makes the holder prove, at a residence check, financial security of at least the subsistence minimum for each remaining month, up to a year ahead - 295.22 EUR a month since 1 July 2026, and half that for a minor.
At a glance
- Residence on your own income
- No such purpose in section 21(1) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.
The section lists nine purposes and is exhaustive; section 25(1) lists nine special activities and is exhaustive; section 15(1) lists five grounds for a national visa and is exhaustive. All three were read in full.
- How many purposes exist
- 9
Section 21(1) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., points (a) to (i).
- Residence is tied to
- One purpose at a time
Section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.: a change of activity needs a fresh application.
- Money a residence holder must be able to show
- The subsistence minimum for each remaining month, up to a year ahead
Section 111(1)(e) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; half of it for a minor.
- What the subsistence minimum is
- 295.22 EUR a month
Section 1(a) of Measure No. 155/2026 Z. z., in force from 1 July 2026. Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 in its own section 2(a).
- A year's worth of that
- 3,542.64 EURCALC (calculated by us, not published)
Our arithmetic, not a figure any instrument prints: twelve times 295.22 EUR under Measure No. 155/2026 Z. z. It is also the amount section 32(14) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z. asks for as financial security of the stay.
Figures marked CALC are our arithmetic, not a figure in any instrument. Where the law states a threshold as a multiple of something else, the amount shown is that multiple applied - and it moves when the underlying figure does.
Requirements
- A purpose from the nine in section 21(1), because residence is tied to one purpose
- Proof at any residence check of at least the subsistence minimum for each remaining month, up to a year ahead
- A different route altogether, if what you have is an income rather than a purpose
Country-level policy
Most countries that police absence do it one way. Slovakia does it four, and the four are not variants of one rule. Section 111(1)(t) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z. makes a temporary residence holder stay on the territory for more than half the time of the granted residence in the calendar year, which is a presence quota: two absences of four months each breach it even though neither is continuous. Section 36(1)(d) makes breaching it a ground to cancel the residence, and exempts a researcher under section 26, a Slovak living abroad under section 29, a long-term resident of another member state under section 30, and anyone whose residence began less than 90 days before the year ended. Section 111(1)(a) separately requires written notice to the police before a continuous absence of more than 180 days. Section 50(1)(c) cancels permanent residence where the holder is continuously abroad for more than 180 days without having given that notice. And sections 35(a) and 49(a) end a residence - temporary or permanent - that was granted and never used: the holder who does not enter Slovakia within 180 days of the grant loses it. Underneath all of them sits the definition in section 2(1)(k): continuous residence runs from the day of entry, and a continuous absence of more than 180 days does not count towards it, which is what a five-year clock for long-term residence is actually measuring.
Both halves of the former Czechoslovakia ask for A2, and they attach it to different documents. In Czechia the examination guards permanent residence after five years and section 70(5)(f) of Act No. 326/1999 Sb. excuses anyone over 60. In Slovakia permanent residence is a family status - section 43 grants it to the spouse or dependent relative of a Slovak citizen with no language test at all - and the five-year, time-based route is the EU long-term resident status in section 52 of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z. That is where the language sits. Section 52(7) grants the long-term residence only where the applicant proves command of Slovak under section 54(4), and section 54(4) sets the level: an examination at a language school or a public university whose linguistic difficulty corresponds to at least A2 of the Common European Framework. The exemptions are four and none of them is an age ceiling: under 14 at the application, a holder of temporary residence as a Slovak living abroad under section 29, a person who completed lower secondary education at a Slovak-language school, and a person who studied at least two school years at a Slovak-language primary or secondary school or two academic years in a Slovak-language university programme, within the last five years. Section 52(8) lets the Ministry of the Interior waive it for permanent ill health.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Grenada
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Prechodný pobyt môže policajný útvar udeliť štátnemu príslušníkovi tretej krajiny a) na účel podnikania, b) na účel zamestnania, c) na účel štúdia, d) na účel osobitnej činnosti, e) na účel výskumu a vývoja, f) na účel zlúčenia rodiny, g) na účel plnenia služobných povinností civilnými zložkami ozbrojených síl,42) h) ktorý má priznané postavenie Slováka žijúceho v zahraničí,43) i) ktorý má priznané postavenie osoby s dlhodobým pobytom v inom členskom štáte.»Our translation - not official
The police department may grant temporary residence to a third-country national a) for the purpose of business, b) for the purpose of employment, c) for the purpose of study, d) for the purpose of a special activity, e) for the purpose of research and development, f) for the purpose of family reunification, g) for the purpose of discharging service duties by civilian components of the armed forces, h) who has been granted the status of a Slovak living abroad, i) who has been granted the status of a long-term resident in another member state.
The closed list of purposes. Nine of them, and none is a person living on money of their own.
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«Prechodný pobyt na účel osobitnej činnosti udelí policajný útvar, ak nie sú dôvody na zamietnutie žiadosti podľa § 33 ods. 6, štátnemu príslušníkovi tretej krajiny, ktorý nie je podnikateľom,54) na a) lektorskú činnosť, b) umeleckú činnosť, c) športovú činnosť, d) stáž v rámci vysokoškolského štúdia mimo územia Slovenskej republiky alebo do dvoch rokov po skončení vysokoškolského štúdia mimo územia Slovenskej republiky, e) činnosť vyplývajúcu z programov vlády Slovenskej republiky alebo z programov Európskej únie, f) plnenie záväzku Slovenskej republiky vyplývajúceho z medzinárodnej zmluvy, g) poskytnutie zdravotnej starostlivosti alebo na sprevádzanie štátneho príslušníka tretej krajiny, ktorému sa poskytuje zdravotná starostlivosť, ak je to potrebné, h) dobrovoľnícku činnosť alebo i) činnosť novinára akreditovaného v Slovenskej republike.»Our translation - not official
The police department shall grant temporary residence for the purpose of a special activity, where there are no grounds to refuse the application under section 33(6), to a third-country national who is not a business person, for a) lecturing, b) artistic activity, c) sporting activity, d) a traineeship within university study outside the territory of the Slovak Republic or within two years of completing university study outside the territory of the Slovak Republic, e) an activity arising from programmes of the Government of the Slovak Republic or of the European Union, f) discharging an obligation of the Slovak Republic under an international treaty, g) the provision of health care or accompanying a third-country national to whom health care is being provided, where that is necessary, h) voluntary activity, or i) the activity of a journalist accredited in the Slovak Republic.
The widest-sounding purpose in the Act, and it is a closed list of nine named activities. Living on an income is not one of them, and the opening words exclude a business person outright.
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The Slovak state's own legal information system, run by the Ministry of Justice, which publishes the Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky and keeps every instrument as a series of point-in-time versions. Three addresses serve the same corpus and they behave differently. www.slov-lex.sk is the live portal: a legacy address such as /pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/ answers HTTP 301 to redir.slov-lex.sk and again to /ezbierky/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/, which is an application page. static.slov-lex.sk is a complete static mirror at predictable addresses and is the one to read: /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ is the version history, /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.html is the version in force from that date, and /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.print.html is the same text without the navigation. The third is the PDF, at /pdf/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ZZ_{year}_{number}_{YYYYMMDD}.pdf, and for an instrument of any age it is the one with legal force: each version's header prints either Obsah dokumentu je právne záväzný or, for older instruments, Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter, and the HTML page says in terms that its content is informative and that the legally binding content is in the PDF. Version dates are the date the version took effect, so finding the text in force on a given day means reading the history page rather than guessing an address.
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Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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«Štátnemu príslušníkovi tretej krajiny môže byť udelené národné vízum, ak a) je to potrebné v súvislosti s udeleným pobytom v Slovenskej republike, b) je to potrebné v súvislosti s podaním žiadosti o udelenie pobytu podľa tohto zákona; to neplatí, ak ide o podanie žiadosti o prechodný pobyt podľa § 22, c) je starší ako 15 rokov a je prijatý na jazykové vzdelávanie v jazykovej škole32a) v rozsahu najmenej 25 vyučovacích hodín týždenne, d) je to v záujme Slovenskej republiky alebo e) je to potrebné na plnenie záväzkov Slovenskej republiky vyplývajúcich z medzinárodných zmlúv.»Our translation - not official
A third-country national may be granted a national visa where a) it is needed in connection with residence granted in the Slovak Republic, b) it is needed in connection with lodging an application for residence under this Act; that does not apply to an application for temporary residence under section 22, c) they are older than 15 and have been admitted to language education at a language school for at least 25 teaching hours a week, d) it is in the interest of the Slovak Republic, or e) it is needed to discharge obligations of the Slovak Republic arising from international treaties.
The national visa is the only long-stay permission outside the residence titles, and its grounds are five. None of them is self-sufficiency either.
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The Slovak state's own legal information system, run by the Ministry of Justice, which publishes the Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky and keeps every instrument as a series of point-in-time versions. Three addresses serve the same corpus and they behave differently. www.slov-lex.sk is the live portal: a legacy address such as /pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/ answers HTTP 301 to redir.slov-lex.sk and again to /ezbierky/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/, which is an application page. static.slov-lex.sk is a complete static mirror at predictable addresses and is the one to read: /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ is the version history, /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.html is the version in force from that date, and /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.print.html is the same text without the navigation. The third is the PDF, at /pdf/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ZZ_{year}_{number}_{YYYYMMDD}.pdf, and for an instrument of any age it is the one with legal force: each version's header prints either Obsah dokumentu je právne záväzný or, for older instruments, Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter, and the HTML page says in terms that its content is informative and that the legally binding content is in the PDF. Version dates are the date the version took effect, so finding the text in force on a given day means reading the history page rather than guessing an address.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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«Prechodný pobyt je viazaný na jeden účel.»Our translation - not official
Temporary residence is tied to one purpose.
The sentence that makes the list in section 21(1) decisive. It continues, after a footnote block in the publisher's own PDF, that a third-country national wishing to carry on a different activity must lodge a fresh application.
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The Slovak state's own legal information system, run by the Ministry of Justice, which publishes the Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky and keeps every instrument as a series of point-in-time versions. Three addresses serve the same corpus and they behave differently. www.slov-lex.sk is the live portal: a legacy address such as /pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/ answers HTTP 301 to redir.slov-lex.sk and again to /ezbierky/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/, which is an application page. static.slov-lex.sk is a complete static mirror at predictable addresses and is the one to read: /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ is the version history, /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.html is the version in force from that date, and /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.print.html is the same text without the navigation. The third is the PDF, at /pdf/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ZZ_{year}_{number}_{YYYYMMDD}.pdf, and for an instrument of any age it is the one with legal force: each version's header prints either Obsah dokumentu je právne záväzný or, for older instruments, Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter, and the HTML page says in terms that its content is informative and that the legally binding content is in the PDF. Version dates are the date the version took effect, so finding the text in force on a given day means reading the history page rather than guessing an address.
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Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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«e) preukázať pri kontrole pobytu finančné zabezpečenie udeleného pobytu najmenej vo výške životného minima na každý mesiac zostávajúceho pobytu, najviac však na jeden rok dopredu; ak ide o maloletého štátneho príslušníka tretej krajiny, vo výške polovice životného minima na každý mesiac zostávajúceho pobytu, najviac však na jeden rok dopredu,»Our translation - not official
e) to prove at a residence check financial security of the granted residence of at least the amount of the subsistence minimum for each month of the remaining stay, but at most one year ahead; in the case of a minor third-country national, of half the subsistence minimum for each month of the remaining stay, but at most one year ahead,
A continuing test rather than one applied at the counter: it is owed at any residence check, for as long as the residence lasts.
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The Slovak state's own legal information system, run by the Ministry of Justice, which publishes the Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky and keeps every instrument as a series of point-in-time versions. Three addresses serve the same corpus and they behave differently. www.slov-lex.sk is the live portal: a legacy address such as /pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/ answers HTTP 301 to redir.slov-lex.sk and again to /ezbierky/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/, which is an application page. static.slov-lex.sk is a complete static mirror at predictable addresses and is the one to read: /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ is the version history, /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.html is the version in force from that date, and /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.print.html is the same text without the navigation. The third is the PDF, at /pdf/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ZZ_{year}_{number}_{YYYYMMDD}.pdf, and for an instrument of any age it is the one with legal force: each version's header prints either Obsah dokumentu je právne záväzný or, for older instruments, Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter, and the HTML page says in terms that its content is informative and that the legally binding content is in the PDF. Version dates are the date the version took effect, so finding the text in force on a given day means reading the history page rather than guessing an address.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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«Finančné zabezpečenie pobytu štátny príslušník tretej krajiny preukáže vo výške dvanásťnásobku»Our translation - not official
The third-country national shall prove financial security of the stay in the amount of twelve times
The sentence ends with the words for the subsistence minimum, which the publisher's PDF carries as a footnote marker. Twelve times the figure in Measure No. 155/2026 Z. z. is 3,542.64 EUR.
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Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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«Sumy životného minima upravené podľa § 5 ods. 2 zákona sa ustanovujú takto: a) suma podľa § 2 písm. a) zákona je 295,22 eura,»Our translation - not official
The amounts of the subsistence minimum adjusted under section 5(2) of the Act are set as follows: a) the amount under section 2(a) of the Act is 295.22 euros,
The live figure. Every multiple in the residence Act is a multiple of this.
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Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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«178,92 eura mesačne, ak ide o jednu plnoletú1) fyzickú osobu,»Our translation - not official
178.92 euros a month, where it concerns one adult natural person,
What the Act itself still prints. It is not the figure in force: section 5 has the Ministry adjust it every 1 July by measure, and the consolidated Act is never rewritten to match, so a reader who opens the statute and multiplies gets an answer that is wrong by a third.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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«Sumy životného minima upravené podľa odseku 2 ustanoví opatrenie, ktoré vydá Ministerstvo práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny Slovenskej republiky podľa údajov zistených Štatistickým úradom Slovenskej republiky a vyhlási jeho úplné znenie uverejnením v Zbierke zákonov Slovenskej republiky.»Our translation - not official
The amounts of the subsistence minimum adjusted under paragraph 2 shall be set by a measure issued by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic according to data established by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, which shall promulgate its full text by publication in the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic.
The mechanism that leaves the Act's own figure behind.
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The Slovak state's own legal information system, run by the Ministry of Justice, which publishes the Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky and keeps every instrument as a series of point-in-time versions. Three addresses serve the same corpus and they behave differently. www.slov-lex.sk is the live portal: a legacy address such as /pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/ answers HTTP 301 to redir.slov-lex.sk and again to /ezbierky/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/, which is an application page. static.slov-lex.sk is a complete static mirror at predictable addresses and is the one to read: /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ is the version history, /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.html is the version in force from that date, and /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.print.html is the same text without the navigation. The third is the PDF, at /pdf/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ZZ_{year}_{number}_{YYYYMMDD}.pdf, and for an instrument of any age it is the one with legal force: each version's header prints either Obsah dokumentu je právne záväzný or, for older instruments, Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter, and the HTML page says in terms that its content is informative and that the legally binding content is in the PDF. Version dates are the date the version took effect, so finding the text in force on a given day means reading the history page rather than guessing an address.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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Practical notes
This is an absence established from three closed lists in one Act, read in full in the legally binding PDF of the version in force from 1 October 2026. It is not a claim that no administrative practice exists outside them.
Czechia reaches the same answer by a different route: its Act leaves the purpose of a long-stay visa open and the Ministry's own index closes it. Slovakia closes it in the statute, so the Slovak answer is falsifiable by reading one section and the Czech answer is not.
A person with money and no purpose is not without options here - the business route in section 22 is open to anyone who will actually trade - but that is a business residence with a business's duties, not a residence for living on an income.
- consolidatesZákon č. 404/2011 Z. z. o pobyte cudzincov a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov
Slov-lex, Ministerstvo spravodlivosti Slovenskej republiky · consolidated to 2026-10-01
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The Slovak state's own legal information system, run by the Ministry of Justice, which publishes the Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky and keeps every instrument as a series of point-in-time versions. Three addresses serve the same corpus and they behave differently. www.slov-lex.sk is the live portal: a legacy address such as /pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/ answers HTTP 301 to redir.slov-lex.sk and again to /ezbierky/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/, which is an application page. static.slov-lex.sk is a complete static mirror at predictable addresses and is the one to read: /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ is the version history, /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.html is the version in force from that date, and /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.print.html is the same text without the navigation. The third is the PDF, at /pdf/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ZZ_{year}_{number}_{YYYYMMDD}.pdf, and for an instrument of any age it is the one with legal force: each version's header prints either Obsah dokumentu je právne záväzný or, for older instruments, Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter, and the HTML page says in terms that its content is informative and that the legally binding content is in the PDF. Version dates are the date the version took effect, so finding the text in force on a given day means reading the history page rather than guessing an address.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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- consolidatesOpatrenie Ministerstva práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny Slovenskej republiky č. 155/2026 Z. z. o úprave súm životného minima
Slov-lex, Ministerstvo spravodlivosti Slovenskej republiky
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The Slovak state's own legal information system, run by the Ministry of Justice, which publishes the Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky and keeps every instrument as a series of point-in-time versions. Three addresses serve the same corpus and they behave differently. www.slov-lex.sk is the live portal: a legacy address such as /pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/ answers HTTP 301 to redir.slov-lex.sk and again to /ezbierky/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/, which is an application page. static.slov-lex.sk is a complete static mirror at predictable addresses and is the one to read: /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ is the version history, /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.html is the version in force from that date, and /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.print.html is the same text without the navigation. The third is the PDF, at /pdf/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ZZ_{year}_{number}_{YYYYMMDD}.pdf, and for an instrument of any age it is the one with legal force: each version's header prints either Obsah dokumentu je právne záväzný or, for older instruments, Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter, and the HTML page says in terms that its content is informative and that the legally binding content is in the PDF. Version dates are the date the version took effect, so finding the text in force on a given day means reading the history page rather than guessing an address.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.
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