Informační portál pro cizince, Ministerstvo vnitra České republiky
Applies the ruleThe Ministry of the Interior's official information portal for foreign nationals, at ipc.gov.cz, in Czech, English and Ukrainian. It sets out, page by page, each type of visa and residence permit the Ministry actually issues, what it asks for, where the application is lodged and what the holder must then do. It is the place where the Ministry's own reading of Act No. 326/1999 Sb. can be read against the Act: the Act grants a long-stay visa for any purpose requiring a stay longer than three months and names none, while this portal says in terms that not every purpose can be a ground for one, and its index of types is in practice the closed list the Act does not write.
The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.
ipc.gov.czCannot be cited for
It is an administration describing the law it applies, not the law, and nothing on it was enacted. The index pages under /typy-viz-a-pobytu/ are assembled by script in the reader's browser, so a fetch of a section index returns the navigation and the cookie notice and no list of children; only the deep pages are server-rendered and read correctly by direct fetch, which means the Ministry's list of types can be enumerated only page by page and cannot be quoted as a single closed list. The Ministry's older addresses are dead: www.mvcr.cz now redirects to mv.gov.cz and the /clanek/*.aspx immigration articles answer 404, so any citation of those is stale. It cannot be cited for the Collection of Laws, for figures that belong to an instrument, or for the current state of an embassy's application allowance, which each embassy publishes itself under section 181b(3) of the Act.
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