Applicants for Czech visas to need fingerprints, photographs - Prague Daily Monitor
Fingerprints and photographs of applicants for Czech visas coming from countries which do not have visa-free relations with the Czech Republic and other EU countries will start to be gradually taken at diplomatic missions as from August 2008, the Czech Foreign Ministry told CTK today.

The visa empire strikes back. But making it more difficult for people to visit is probably the price Czech Republic has to pay for being in the EU. (Although, the old bureaucratic procedures are easy to resurrect.)

The Czech Republic will join the Schengen area within which no borders and border checks exist between EU member states on December 31, 2007.