Information for those intending to move to Slovakia and general information about the country.

Are you moving to Slovakia or to Slovenia?

If you are moving to Slovakia, be sure that the above is not a frivolous question.

George W.Bush is reported to have once told a Slovakian journalist, “The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas”, when the person Bush met was actually a Slovenian minister and not a Slovak.

Moving to Slovakia has become possible because of  what is commonly know as Velvet Divorce or Velvet Revolution, which is the popular reference to the former Czechoslovakia becoming two independent and separate countries, namely, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

When you are moving to Slovakia, you are actually going to the Slovak Republic which is its formal and official name. Slovak is the language spoken in Slovakia. Slovak refers to its citizen as well. People moving to Slovakia may also remember that “Slovakian” is not the preferred adjective- it is Slovak cuisine.

One moving to Slovakia can take pride in moving to the heart of Europe as the Slovak Republic is precisely placed at geographic centre of the continent.

Moving to Slovakia takes you to a nation of over five million people.

The largest city in the country is its capital, Bratislava, which almost no one moving to Slovakia will miss.

Slovak is spoken by about 5 million people in Slovakia, and by about half a million people outside the country, primarily in the United States and Canada. The climate is between the temperate and continental; the summer is warm while the winter is cloudy and cold.

The Slovak Republic joined the OECD in 2000 and the European Union in 2004.

If you are moving to Slovakia, you are sure to try what they make with sheep cheese and potato dumplings, called bryndzove halusky , besides the gin called Borovicka and their brandy slivovica.

People moving to Slovakia can see facilities of companies such as  Volkswagen, PSA Peugeot Citroen  Kia Motors, Sony, Samsung.

A citizen of the European Union/European Economic Area and Switzerland, moving to Slovakia does not need a visa, though he may have to prove his identity (e.g., passport, ID card).

Within 10 days after moving to Slovakia, if you are a citizen of the EU/EEA, you must notify a police station except when it is required by a hotel or public lodging place.

An EU national would need a residence permit to work even though he doesn’t need work permit; if you are moving to Slovakia for reasons including employment and a stay of over 3 months, then the stay becomes the basis of  the first permit  or authorisation for permanent residence. This would be for five years and on the next application, the permit is for an unlimited time.

Besides what is specified as international requirements, many countries have their own stipulations regarding the validity of a foreigner’s passport for a certain period after arrival; however, British citizens moving to Slovakia have no such requirement for their passports. 

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If you are moving to Slovakia from another EU country, free movement of your personal effects is permitted.