Slovakia: visa and entry rules
What you need to get in, how long you may stay, and what an overstay costs
Slovakia's borders: every crossing point
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Airports 2
With Czechia, Poland, Hungary and Austria the borders are internal ones inside the Schengen area.
With Ukraine it is the external Schengen border: Vysne Nemecke - Uzhhorod, with full checks.
The country has no sea coast.
Bratislava stands almost on the Austrian border - Vienna is about an hour away, and many people fly into Vienna and stay in Bratislava.
Trains and buses link the country with Prague, Vienna and Budapest - inside the zone that is more convenient than flying.
Driving to Slovakia
An electronic vignette is required for the motorways.
A Green Card is compulsory.
Winter tyres are compulsory in the cold season.
Transit traffic from Poland into Hungary and Austria runs through the country.
Travelling to Slovakia with a pet
The rules are the same throughout the EU.
An ISO-standard microchip is compulsory, and it is implanted BEFORE the rabies vaccination - otherwise the vaccination does not count.
The rabies vaccination may not be given before the animal is 12 weeks old, and 21 days must pass between the vaccination and entry.
A rabies antibody titre test is required only for pets from a country not on the EU's approved list. The US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK are on the list, so this does not apply to pets travelling from those countries; Russia is one of the countries it does apply to. The blood is taken no earlier than 30 days after the vaccination, and then three months must pass before entry.
An EU veterinary certificate is needed, issued by the state veterinary service.
No more than five animals per person without commercial paperwork.
Overstaying your visa in Slovakia
The violation is recorded across the whole Schengen area, not in a single country.
The main consequence is a refusal of your next visa. The record stays in the system, and obtaining a Schengen visa afterwards becomes considerably harder.
An entry ban for a significant overstay applies to the entire zone at once.
The days are counted across the whole of Schengen. The typical mistake is to count your stay in each country separately.
What else to check before you go
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Entry rules change faster than anything else on this site, and they change without notice. We cross-check every page against several sources and state the date it was verified, but that does not replace the main step: before you travel, check an official source — the country’s consulate, its immigration service or its e-visa portal. Especially if more than a couple of months have passed since our check.