{"id":13475,"date":"2025-05-22T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vizum.sk\/?p=13475"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:07:30","slug":"novela-zakona-o-pobyte-cudzincov-kvoty-na-podnikanie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizum.sk\/en\/amendment-to-the-act-on-the-residence-of-foreigners-business-quotas\/","title":{"rendered":"Amendment to the Aliens Residence Act: quotas for business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amendment to the Act on the Residence of Foreigners: Slovakia risks an outflow of investments<\/b><\/h4>

On 21 May 2025, Parliament approved an amendment to the Law on the Residence of Foreigners, which will enter into force on 1 July 2025.<\/b>
However, under the guise of efficiency and security, there are fundamental limitations to entrepreneurial freedom, legal certainty and equal access. Instead of simplifying the system and increasing the capacity of the Foreign Police offices, this amendment to the law introduces new barriers that may discourage thousands of skilled professionals and entrepreneurs from doing business in Slovakia.<\/strong><\/p>

National visa extended - but only as a temporary solution<\/b><\/h4>

One of the few positive changes is extension of the validity of the national visa from 90 to 120 days<\/strong>. This step should give the foreigner more time to apply for residence after entering Slovakia. In practice, however, this is more a reaction to the Ministry of the Interior's long-standing inability to ensure an increase in the number of foreign police staff or posts and thus to ensure the availability of appointments<\/strong>than a real systemic change. This just pushes the problem back a month instead of fixing it<\/strong>.<\/p>

Introduction of quotas for entrepreneurs<\/b><\/h4>

A fundamental and at the same time very controversial change is introduction of quotas for the granting of national visas for business purposes<\/strong>which will be determined separately for each embassy<\/strong>. The government will thus gain the power to decide from which countries and in what numbers entrepreneurs can come to Slovakia<\/strong>.<\/p>

The quotas are set at 700 applications for business residence per year<\/strong>. However, the breakdown by embassy is suspiciously directed towards the representation of states close to the interests of the Government of the Slovak Republic<\/strong>which in our view, it does not represent a fair distribution for applicants from different countries around the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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<\/i><\/div>\n <\/div>List of embassies and quotas allocated to them<\/span>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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Representative office (country)<\/th>\n Number of quotas<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Uzhhorod\/Kyiv (Ukraine)<\/td>190<\/td><\/tr>\n
Tbilisi (Georgia)<\/td>68<\/td><\/tr>\n
Belgrade (Serbia)<\/td>62<\/td><\/tr>\n
Hanoi (Vietnam)<\/td>53<\/td><\/tr>\n
Nairobi (Kenya)<\/td>23<\/td><\/tr>\n
Moscow (Russia)<\/td>22<\/td><\/tr>\n
Shanghai (China)<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr>\n
Beijing (China)<\/td>17<\/td><\/tr>\n
Skopje (Northern Macedonia)<\/td>16<\/td><\/tr>\n
Astana (Kazakhstan)<\/td>13<\/td><\/tr>\n
Delhi (India)<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Cairo (Egypt)<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Mexico (Mexico)<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Jakarta (Indonesia)<\/td>8<\/td><\/tr>\n
Chisinau (Moldova)<\/td>8<\/td><\/tr>\n
Tokyo (Japan)<\/td>8<\/td><\/tr>\n
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)<\/td>8<\/td><\/tr>\n
Paris (France)<\/td>7<\/td><\/tr>\n
Tashkent (Uzbekistan)<\/td>7<\/td><\/tr>\n
Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)<\/td>6<\/td><\/tr>\n
Brazil (Brazil)<\/td>6<\/td><\/tr>\n
Buenos Aires (Argentina)<\/td>6<\/td><\/tr>\n
Vienna (Austria)<\/td>6<\/td><\/tr>\n
Sydney (Australia)<\/td>6<\/td><\/tr>\n
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)<\/td>6<\/td><\/tr>\n
Athens (Greece)<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>\n
Istanbul (Turkey)<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>\n
London (United Kingdom)<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>\n
Havana (Cuba)<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>\n
Bangkok (Thailand)<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>\n
Beirut (Lebanon)<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>\n
Baku (Azerbaijan)<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>\n
Yerevan (Armenia)<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>\n
Madrid (Spain)<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>\n
Minsk (Belarus)<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>\n
Tehran (Iran)<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>\n
Warsaw (Poland)<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>\n
Ankara (Turkey)<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>\n
Ottawa (Canada)<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>\n
Washington (USA)<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>\n
New York (USA)<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>\n
Podgorica (Montenegro)<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>\n
Prague (Czech Republic)<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>\n
Seoul (South Korea)<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>\n
Berlin (Germany)<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>\n
Dublin (Ireland)<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>\n
Bucharest (Romania)<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n
Nicosia (Cyprus)<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n
Sofia (Bulgaria)<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n
Taipei (Taiwan)<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n
Pretoria (South Africa)<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Such an approach is extremely problematic for the following reasons:<\/p>\n