Czech POINT and Electronic Identity for Foreigners: Certificates, Signature Verification and Bank ID

Updated: 14 November 2026

Czech POINT is the government services counter at post offices and town halls. In ten minutes you can get a criminal record extract, register extracts or a verified signature. Here is what foreigners need from it, what it costs and how to do part of it online with bank ID.

What you can do at Czech POINT

• Criminal record extract — for jobs, a trade licence, residence extension and citizenship. This is the Czech record; the one from your home country must be obtained there.
• Signature verification — for example on a power of attorney, contract or landlord consent. You sign in front of the clerk.
• Certified copy — a copy of an original that you can submit instead of it.
• Extracts: land register, commercial and trade registers, insolvency register, driver’s points.
• Data box — the application is free. More in our article on the data box.
• Document conversion from paper to electronic and back — CZK 30 per page.

Fees

• Criminal record extract — CZK 100.
• Other extracts — CZK 100 for the first page, CZK 50 for each further page.
• Signature verification — CZK 50 per signature.
• Certified copy — CZK 30 per A4 page.
• Document conversion — CZK 30 per page.
• Setting up a data box — free.

Bring your passport and residence card. Czech POINT does not verify foreign-language documents without a translation — you need a sworn translation.

Bank ID: e-government online

• With bank ID (bankovní identita) you can log in to the Citizen Portal, the tax office, ČSSZ and the Labour Office and sign applications online.
• Your bank must match you against the population register. For that, your bank needs your residence card (průkaz o povolení k pobytu) issued by the Ministry of the Interior.
• With a foreign passport, a visa sticker or some EU residence certificates, the check usually fails.
• If login does not work: update your ID document in internet banking, give consent to use bank ID with public authorities, and call your bank if needed.
• Opening an account — see bank account for foreigners.

Common mistakes

• Signing a power of attorney at home and bringing it to be verified — you must sign in front of the clerk.
• Bringing a foreign-language document without a translation.
• Not updating your new residence card at the bank after an extension — bank ID stops working.
• Confusing the Czech criminal record with the one from your home country.

Sources

• Česká pošta — legalizace (ověření podpisu)
• Česká pošta — vidimace (ověření kopie)
• Praha 1 — Czech POINT, ověřené výpisy a poplatky
• Česká spořitelna — bankovní identita a doklady totožnosti

This article is for general information only and is not legal or tax advice. Check the current rules before making a decision, or contact us.