SlovakiaStarting a business
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This route is for a third-country national who is acting, or will act, on behalf of a Slovak trading company or cooperative as an executive/officer, without being in an employment relationship with it.
is acting or will be acting on behalf of a trading company or cooperative and he/she is not in an employment relationship.
The business purpose is demonstrated by a business plan in the prescribed form, a business plan for an innovative project, or a document confirming authorisation to do business; this purpose document is not required for a person registered in the business, trades or similar register as authorised to act on behalf of a business company or cooperative.
a) submitting a business plan in the form according to a special regulation,58) a business plan for the implementation of an innovative project or a document confirming that the person is authorised to do business, in the case of a third country national according to Art. 22;
the purpose of residence; this does not apply for a third country national according to Art. 22 who is registered in the business register, trades register or other similar register as a person authorised to act on behalf of a business company or cooperative;
Financial resources for business are proven by the balance on a business bank account, separate from the personal subsistence account (last three months' statement for a foreign bank), of one hundred times the subsistence minimum for a company executive, or forty times if an innovative-project business plan was submitted. On renewal, the company or cooperative must show income after tax for the previous fiscal period of at least sixty times the subsistence minimum.
(7) The third country national shall prove the financial resources for the business activities according to par. 2 (d) by submitting a confirmation of the balance on the bank account kept in a bank opened for business purposes, which must be different from the account referred to in par. 6, and in the case of an account in a foreign bank, the third country national shall prove the financial resources for the business activities by an account statement for the last three months.
b) one hundred times the subsistence minimum, if it is a third country national according to Art. 22 par. 1 (b).
c) forty times the subsistence minimum, if it is a third country national according to Art. 22 par. 1 (b) who submitted a business plan for the implementation of an innovative project.
(7) A third country national shall be obliged, when applying for temporary residence permit renewal according to Art. 22 par. 1(b), to demonstrate income after tax of the trading company or the cooperative on whose behalf he/she acts for the previous fiscal period at least in the amount of sixty times the subsistence minimum;
The permit lets the holder act for the named trading company or cooperative; the Act does not itself state family-accompaniment terms for this specific sub-route.
is acting or will be acting on behalf of a trading company or cooperative and he/she is not in an employment relationship.
The application for business residence cannot be submitted at the Foreign Police Department except when changing purpose. It is granted for the assumed period of business, maximum three years; it may be renewed, even repeatedly, if the purpose persists and conditions continue to be met, for a maximum of three years if the assumed residence lasts at least three years. Long-term residence is granted after at least 5 years of uninterrupted legal residence in Slovakia.
An application for temporary residence for business cannot be submitted at the Foreign Police Department (except for cases of changing the purpose of residence).
(2) A police department shall grant temporary residence for the purpose of business for the assumed time period of business, however, maximum for three years.
If the purpose of residence persists and the foreigner continues to meet the conditions for residence, temporary residence may be renewed, even repeatedly.
(1) A police department may renew temporary residence
c) maximum for three years, if the assumed residence of a third country national shall last at least three years;
The Police Department will grant a long-term residence to a foreign national: Who has legally resided in Slovakia for an uninterrupted period of at least 5 years directly before the submission of the application;
These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.
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