your documents
One word governs this whole file: sworn. Czechia does not want a translation, it wants an official translation by a sworn translator — and that is slower and more specific than it sounds.
The set below is what a Nepali applicant is normally asked for at the long-term visa stage. The mission handling your application publishes its own list, and that governs.
Acceptance letter
From a recognised Czech higher education institution.
Sworn Czech translations
Of academic documents and the police clearance. By a sworn translator, into Czech, not English.
Criminal-record certificate
From Nepal Police, then sworn-translated. Required rather than occasional.
Proof of funds
A bank statement in your name or a sponsor's, or confirmation of a grant or scholarship.
Travel medical insurance
Covering the Schengen area, in place before the visa is issued.
Accommodation proof
Confirmation of where you will live in Czechia.
Passport and photographs
To specification, with biometrics at the in-person appointment.
Tuition receipt
For paid programmes. Not applicable if you are on the tuition-free Czech-medium route.
Note that a scholarship or grant confirmation substitutes for the bank evidence entirely. If you have one, it simplifies the most awkward part of this file.
Czechia may have no embassy in Nepal, and the long-term visa must be applied for in person. That combination means travel to a mission covering Nepal — a real cost and a scheduling constraint, and the first thing to confirm. The Nepali offices below are the ones you will visit on this side.
Online Police Clearance Report (OPCR)
Department of Consular Services, MoFA
Understand what 'sworn' means
It is a legal category, not a quality description. A sworn translator is authorised to produce translations accepted by Czech authorities. An ordinary translation, and even a notarised one, is a different document.
Ask the mission who it accepts, before paying
Requirements about which translators qualify differ. Paying for a translation the mission then rejects is a common and avoidable loss, and it costs weeks as well as money.
Cover the academics and the police clearance
Both need it. The police clearance in particular is often forgotten until the file is otherwise complete.
Start alongside your applications
This sits in front of a 60-to-90-day processing window and an in-person appointment you may need to travel for. It is the item that decides whether you make September.
The requirement: official translation into Czech by a sworn translator, covering academic documents and the criminal-record certificate
Why the Nepal chain takes time: Nepal is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention, so there is no single apostille certificate — documents go through a chain of offices instead
Two figures we will not state more confidently than our sources allow.
The funds requirement: sources give about CZK 81,000 to CZK 124,500
The visa fee: we could not verify a current rate
The funds one matters most because you have to assemble evidence against it. The requirement is tied to a subsistence minimum and the length of your stay, so ask the mission for the figure that applies to your own course length rather than working from any published annual number, including ours.
Most of your file is issued in Nepal and is identical whichever destination you choose. Each of these has its own guide with the office address, the fee and the steps.
On the Czech-medium route there may be no tuition at all — but the NOC still applies to any fees you do remit, including for a preparatory language year. For a medical place, make sure the NOC names an NMC-recognised university.