The Czech Republic publishes more usable data on Filipino workers than any other European destination: programme admissions by country and month, residence counts by nationality, quota decisions with dates. This page collects the numbers an HQ or a journalist needs, with their sources, and mirrors the Czech-language data page so that both say the same thing.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade admitted 10,795 workers to the Qualified Employee Programme in 2025 from thirteen source countries. The Philippines led with 4,791 — 44.4 % of all admissions and the most of any country — ahead of Ukraine (1,916), Mongolia (1,716), Moldova (700) and India (600); the remaining eight countries accounted for 1,072. Philippine admissions ran between 268 (June) and 547 (February) a month, a drawdown of 46.5 % of the 10,300 quota. In 2026 the Ministry released the quota as 858 places a month and the Philippine capacity was exhausted in July, August and September — the first time demand overtook the monthly ceiling — which is the background to the Government's announcement of 15 October 2026 that the quota will rise.
A Czech employer hires a Filipino on an Employee Card (zaměstnanecká karta) — one permit for residence and work, issued by the Ministry of the Interior for the length of the employment up to two years and renewable — and reaches the Czech Embassy in Manila through the Government's Qualified Employee Programme (Program kvalifikovaný zaměstnanec), run by the Ministry of Industry and Trade with the Chamber of Commerce, the Confederation of Industry, CzechInvest and the Agrarian Chamber as garants. The programme does not shorten the Ministry's statutory decision time of 60 days (90 in complex cases) and does not replace the 30-day labour-market test in the central vacancy register; what it does is guarantee the candidate an appointment within the Philippine annual quota of 10,300 places — set by Government Regulation No. 109/2026 Coll. for the Embassy in Manila (11,400 Employee Card applications a year, 10,300 of them for the programme), divided evenly into twelve months of 858 and assigned to named workers at a release at 10:00 on the published day; unused monthly places are not carried over. In 2025 the programme admitted 10,795 workers from thirteen countries, 4,791 of them from the Philippines — the largest group — and in July, August and September 2026 the monthly Philippine capacity was exhausted within hours of release. On 15 October 2026 Deputy Prime Minister Havlíček announced that the quotas for the Philippines and India will be raised; a figure of 12,000 a year from January 2027 circulated from the Brno engineering fair without ministerial confirmation, industry recommended at least 15,000, and until a government regulation is published the 10,300 quota applies. Wages must be at least CZK 27,328 gross a month in 2026 (1.22 × the minimum wage of CZK 22,400) — CZK 30,378 from 1 January 2027 — and not lower than comparable employees. The client is always the employer; Orienta Czech administers the process under power of attorney.
The Ministry of the Interior's quarterly migration report counted 14,530 Philippine citizens resident in the Czech Republic at 31 March 2026 — 1.3 % of all foreigners and the tenth-largest nationality; Czech Television's main evening news cited Labour Office data of 14,923 Filipinos in employment at the end of March 2026, 42 % more than a year earlier (residence and employment counts differ by definition). Foreign employees number about 935,000, around 22 % of all employees according to the Czech National Bank in August 2026. The quota history explains the curve: 2,000 places in 2020, 5,300 from 1 January 2024, 10,300 from 1 May 2024 — confirmed unchanged by Government Regulation 109/2026 Coll. on 1 July 2026 — a fivefold increase in six years, and still exhausted monthly in 2026. The DMW deployed 130,920 land-based workers to Europe in 2025; the Czech corridor is one of its fastest-growing.
Orienta Czech placed more than nine hundred Filipino workers in 2025 — about 19 % of the programme's Philippine intake, a share it also held in 2024 — with a target above a thousand for 2026; these are company figures, not official statistics, and the Czech-language data page keeps them separate from the Ministry's. The group's Czech case studies, with dated departures and headcounts, are published on both sites.
Recruitment runs through our own DMW-licensed agency, Prime Search Manpower Agency Inc. in Makati (licence DMW-027-LB-11182024): your company is accredited at the Migrant Workers Office at the Philippine Embassy in Prague — which sits in the same city as the Ministry of the Interior that decides the Employee Card, keeping contract verification and the immigration decision in one place — the job order is registered with the DMW, and every worker leaves Manila with a verified contract, medical clearance, pre-departure orientation and an Overseas Employment Certificate. Recruitment follows the employer-pays principle: no applicant pays for an interview, a trade test or a place on a shortlist. Your company is the employer from day one; Orienta Czech, the group's EU delivery entity licensed by the Czech Ministry of Labour, runs the recruitment and the immigration administration under your power of attorney and never employs or leases the workers.
Everything here is subject to the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals (326/1999 Coll.), the Employment Act (435/2004 Coll.), the Government's Qualified Employee Programme as published by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of the Interior's practice in force and Philippine DMW rules.
4,791 — 44.4 % of 10,795 admissions from thirteen countries, the largest group (Ministry of Industry and Trade).
14,530 Philippine citizens at 31 March 2026 according to the Ministry of the Interior's quarterly migration report; Labour Office employment data cited by Czech Television gave 14,923 Filipinos in employment at the same date.
2,000 in 2020, 5,300 from 1 January 2024, 10,300 from 1 May 2024 (confirmed by Government Regulation 109/2026 Coll.); the Government announced a further increase on 15 October 2026, not yet in force.
MPO programme statistics, the Ministry of the Interior's quarterly migration reports, the Czech National Bank and Labour Office data as cited by Czech Television; Orienta Czech's own placements are marked as company data.
General information for employers, not legal or migration advice. Rules change; we re-verify before each hire.