The Czech Embassy in Copenhagen has confirmed that its consular counters will be closed to the public from 22 December 2025 to 2 January 2026 for planned maintenance of passport printers and payment systems. Only emergency cases will be handled.
Denmark hosts more than 7,000 Czech nationals and serves as a Nordic hub for visa filings by third-country seafarers joining cruise ships flagged out of Prague-based operators. Shipping agents must therefore reroute crew to Stockholm or Hamburg if documents need stamping over the holiday period.
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Travellers faced with consular downtime are not entirely without options. Online visa platform VisaHQ can help applicants lodge Czech visa requests remotely and monitor their status while the Copenhagen counters are offline, and it can also advise Czech nationals on passport-renewal logistics in neighbouring countries. Full details are available at https://www.visahq.com/czech-republic/.
For Czech citizens resident in Denmark, the closure means that lost-passport replacements will require travel to the honorary consulate in Aarhus or use of a laissez-passer issued by Danish police. Companies should remind travelling staff to check passport validity now, as airlines may deny boarding even on intra-Schengen flights if documents expire within three months.
The embassy says the downtime will allow technicians to integrate new biometric workstations compliant with ICAO 9303 rev 17, reducing processing time by 20 % once the counters reopen on 5 January.
Denmark hosts more than 7,000 Czech nationals and serves as a Nordic hub for visa filings by third-country seafarers joining cruise ships flagged out of Prague-based operators. Shipping agents must therefore reroute crew to Stockholm or Hamburg if documents need stamping over the holiday period.
Travellers faced with consular downtime are not entirely without options. Online visa platform VisaHQ can help applicants lodge Czech visa requests remotely and monitor their status while the Copenhagen counters are offline, and it can also advise Czech nationals on passport-renewal logistics in neighbouring countries. Full details are available at https://www.visahq.com/czech-republic/.
For Czech citizens resident in Denmark, the closure means that lost-passport replacements will require travel to the honorary consulate in Aarhus or use of a laissez-passer issued by Danish police. Companies should remind travelling staff to check passport validity now, as airlines may deny boarding even on intra-Schengen flights if documents expire within three months.
The embassy says the downtime will allow technicians to integrate new biometric workstations compliant with ICAO 9303 rev 17, reducing processing time by 20 % once the counters reopen on 5 January.
