Changing the uniform residence permit for the purpose of work

You should submit an application for a change in a temporary residence and work permit when:

1. there has been a change of employer, employer-user, and the work is still performed for the same Temporary Employment Agency for which the temporary residence and work permit was issued;
2. you have obtained the right to work without a work permit (e.g. you have completed full-time higher education in Poland), and you have a uniform residence and work permit in which the employer was indicated;
3. you continue to work for an employer for whom the Voivode granted you a permit, but the conditions of employment have changed regarding:

• Workplace,
• working time,
• the lowest salary you will receive in a given position,
• the type of contract under which you will work.

You do not have to change your temporary residence and work permit when:

• the registered office or place of residence, name or legal form of the employer has changed;
• the employer or its part was taken over by another employer, the workplace or its part was transferred to another employer;
• your civil law contract has been replaced with an employment contract;
• the title of the position has changed and the scope of your responsibilities has not changed;
• there was an increase in working time with a proportional increase in your remuneration.

Submit the printed and correctly filled in Polish language application form for changing the temporary residence permit in paper version via administration office or send by post.

Address:
Mazovian Voivodship Office in Warsaw
Foreigners Affairs Department
st. Marszałkowska 3/5
00-624 Warsaw

Application office at the headquarters of the Department of Foreigners' Affairs, ul. Marszałkowska 3/5, Warsaw (stand 8)
- reception hours:  
Monday: 10:00-17:30,
Tuesday - Friday 8:00-15:00

Documents submitted to the Registration Office are not verified and are not confirmed to be true copies of the originals. The service is available after prior reservation of the date and time e-service portal. By booking an appointment, you accept at the same time registration regulations.

Customer Service Point of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Office in Warsaw, pl. Bankowy 3/5, entrance F from Al. Solidarity
- reception hours:
Monday - Friday 8:00 - 16:00

The date of submission of the application shall be the date of submission of the application to the Office or the date of the postmark. When submitting an application in this way, the submitted documents are not certified as true copies of the original. Proceedings are initiated only after completing the formal deficiencies of the application, in accordance with the request sent by the Office. The waiting time for the first call depends on the number of applications awaiting registration and can range from several to several weeks.

Documents needed to initiate the procedure (so-called formal requirements):

• application to change the permit (to download) – signed in person by the person to whom the permit relates - as a Party to the proceedings. The application for the change of the permit is submitted to the voivode competent for the place of current residence;
• original Annex No. 1 to the application for a temporary residence permit, completed in full and signed by a person authorized to represent the employer, in which the new terms of employment or the new user employer will be indicated;
• photocopy a valid travel document (original available for inspection). In particularly justified cases, when you do not have a valid travel document and you are unable to obtain it, you can present another one a document confirming your identity;
• to start the procedure, you will also need confirmation that you have applied stamp duty for changing the permit - in the amount of PLN 220.

If you do not complete the formal defects, your application will be left unprocessed and the proceedings will not be conducted.

On the other hand, in the event of removal of formal deficiencies after the expiry of the deadline, but before the authority issues a notification that the application has not been considered, the date of submission of the application is considered to be the date of supplementing all formal deficiencies of the application.

Documents needed to change your permit:

• information from the staroste, appropriate for the main place of your work, about the inability to meet the employer's staffing needs based on the registers of the unemployed and job seekers or about the negative result of the recruitment organized for the employer, issued not earlier than 180 days before submitting the application, if required;

Check if you need information from the starost.

• if the starost's information contains requirements for candidates to take up work on the offered position, attach documents confirming that you meet these requirements;
• if you are exempt from the obligation to provide information to the staroste, attach documents confirming it;
• Annex 1 to the application confirms that you have a purpose of staying in Poland for more than 3 months, it will allow you to determine whether the amount of your monthly remuneration is not lower than the amount of the minimum remuneration for work, regardless of the working time and the type of legal relationship constituting the basis for your work. The conditions of entrusting work specified in Annex 1 must be valid on the day of issuing the decision and must be consistent with the conditions resulting from other documents, e.g. employment contract, information from the staroste. In Annex 1 to the application, the employer provides the amount of remuneration for work offered to you, which may not be lower than the minimum remuneration for work, i.e. currently PLN 3600 gross per month, regardless of the working time/number of working hours and the type of contract under which you perform work;
• current documents confirming that you have health insurance;
• if you work in regulated profession – also complete documents confirming formal qualifications or meeting the conditions that are required. Check if your profession is on list of regulated professions in Poland;
• documents confirming that your employer has the financial means or sources of income necessary to cover the obligations arising from entrusting you with work and confirming that he conducts real business, agricultural or statutory activity
• documents confirming that you informed the voivode who granted you a temporary residence and work permit within 15 working days about the cessation of the reason for the permit; i.e. when you finish your work;
• employment certificate from the previous employer or bills for the contract if you had a civil law contract;

Missing documents in the case should be supplemented in accordance with the content of the summons received.

You submit all documents in original/certified copy.

Attention! Attaching all the above-mentioned documents to the application when submitting it may reduce the amount of official correspondence and shorten the time of settling the case. In the event of the need to clarify or clarify the evidence held by the authority in the case during the proceedings, you may be called upon to provide other documents or to testify confirming the circumstances referred to in the application. Documents should be submitted in originals or in photocopies together with the originals for inspection. If documents drawn up in a foreign language are attached to the application, it is also required to submit a translation of this document into Polish, made by a sworn translator.

If your details (place of residence, work or number of dependents) have changed during the procedure, inform the Department of Foreigners of the changes in writing by post or registry office.

Have you received a decision inconsistent with your request?

The decision may be appealed against to the Head of the Office for Foreigners. You submit the appeal through the Mazowieckie Voivode within 14 days from the date of delivery of the decision. If the Mazowieckie Voivode decides that your appeal deserves Entire to be taken into account, may issue a new decision within 7 days from the date of receipt of the appeal in which it repeals or changes the contested decision. If, after receiving the appeal, the Voivode does not issue a new decision, then the files of your case together with the appeal will be transferred to the Head of the Office for Foreigners within 7 days from the date of receipt of the appeal by the authority.