When to apply?
Submit an application if you intend to stay in Poland for more than 3 months and if the main one purpose of your stay is to start or continue full-time studies:
- in the study unit approved by the minister competent for internal affairs, unless this unit is not subject to approval,
- in the unit conducting the studies, which is not subject to the approval requirement, in relation to which a decision on the prohibition of admitting foreigners has not been issued.
A printed and correctly completed application for a permit temporary stay you submit in person, no later than on the last day of your legal stay on the territory of Poland.
If you submit the application within the indicated period and it will not be in it formal deficiencies or you complete formal deficiencies within the time limit indicated by us, your stay will be legal from the date of submitting the application to the date on which decision will become final in your case.
Please register before submitting your application inPOL foreigner's portal and read the directions for completing the application.
Where to submit the application?
Correctly and completely completed application submit in person at the Department for Foreigners in Warsaw.
Applications for temporary stay are accepted in 3 locations in Warsaw:
1 st. Marszałkowska 3/5, line X
2. Pl. Bankowy 3/5, entrance "G", queue G
3. Al. Jerozolimskie 28, funicular F
To book an appointment at the office, complete the form below application and point in it mandatory in accordance with the WSC registration regulations, the identification number of the application completed in the system MOS and in the system inPOL
To make a reservation, it is necessary to complete the application in the MOS and inPOL systems.
We will send the necessary information regarding the matter on an ongoing basis to the telephone number provided in the inPOL system, including an SMS with information on receipt of the residence card.
If you fill out the form correctly, you will receive automatic information regarding sent notification.
Then, within 5 business days you will receive information with the date and place of the visit to the e-mail address provided in the application. Registration will be determined by the order in which applications are received.
If you receive information that the registration limit has been reached due to lack of places or incorrect data, please register for the next session. Information about the next session will be available on our website.
The number of people registered for a given day depends on staffing and accommodation possibilities of the office.
A registered application does not mean signing up to submit an application in person. Registration is determined by the order of applications and the correctness of the indicated data (including numbers from the MOS and inPOL systems), which will be verified.
People who come for an appointment without completed applications in the inPOL and MOS systems will not be served.
The above solution is aimed at more efficient processing of cases related to the constantly increasing number of foreigners in Masovia.
FORM - Registration for submitting an application for temporary residence
It is worth submitting a completely completed application in person, as it will significantly streamline the procedure for legalizing your stay. If you are unable to submit the application in person by the last day of your legal stay, please send a complete and correctly completed application in paper version to meet the deadline. post office.
What counts is the date of posting the correspondence at the post office. If you submit the application by post, you will have to wait for the Office's call, and the process of legalizing your stay will be much longer. Then, after receiving the summons, you will be obliged to appear in person on the indicated date, in order to, among other things, assemblies fingerprints. Applications are considered in the order in which they were received.
During the visit, you can also submit other required documents.
Find out, how to submit fingerprints
What documents to submit?
Documents needed to initiate the procedure (so-called formal requirements):
- proposal in 2 copies, completed in accordance with the instructions;
- 4 Photos;
- 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 in the amount of PLN 340, yours personal appearance and submission fingerprints.
Completion of the above-mentioned activities on time, while maintaining the condition of submitting the application during legal stay, will allow you to include in your passport stamp confirming the submission of the application.
If you do not complete the formal defects, your application will be left unprocessed and the proceedings will not be conducted.
However, in the event of removal of formal deficiencies after the expiry of the deadline, and before the authority sends a notification that the application has not been considered, the date of submission of the application should be considered the date of supplementing all formal deficiencies of the application. In the above situation, it is not possible to place a stamp in the passport confirming the submission of an application for a temporary residence permit.
Documents needed to grant the permit:
First year student
- current certificate issued by the unit providing education on admission to studies or continuation of studies signed by a person authorized to issue certificates for foreigners on current form;
- a valid certificate issued by the unit providing education on the amount of tuition fees and/or confirming the payment of tuition fees in a given academic year (the amount of fees for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year);
- a document confirming possession health insurance;
- height documents housing costs containing information on the amount of fixed service charges, charges for the delivery of energy, gas, water to the premises and the collection of sewage, waste and liquid impurities
- documents confirming having sufficient financial resources to cover the costs of living in Poland (for a period of 15 months), studies and return travel, after deducting housing costs,
If you are staying in Poland alone, the minimum amount to cover the cost of living is PLN 776 for each month of stay, after deducting the cost of the return trip to the country of origin, study costs for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year and accommodation costs for each month of stay. If you are staying in Poland with family members who are dependent on you, you must have funds in the amount of at least PLN 600 for yourself and each family member for each month of stay, as well as funds to cover the costs of return travel for you and your family members, residence for each month of stay and study costs for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year.
The amount of financial resources to cover the costs of the return trip to the country of origin is:
- PLN 200, if you come from a country neighboring the Republic of Poland,
- PLN 500, if you come from a different EU Member State than neighboring Poland,
- PLN 2500 if you come from a country that is not a member of the European Union.
What documents do we recognize:
- traveler's check;
- a certificate of the credit card limit issued by the bank that issued the credit card;
- a certificate confirming that the foreigner or the person on whom the foreigner is dependent has cash in a bank or cooperative savings and credit union with its registered office in the territory of the Republic of Poland or another European Union Member State, a Member State of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) - parties to the agreement on the European Economic Area or the Swiss Confederation;
- a document confirming the granting of a domestic or foreign scholarship;
- certificate of employment and the amount of earnings of the foreigner or the person on whom the foreigner is dependent.
The above certificates must be issued not earlier than one month before the date of submitting the application for a temporary residence permit. To convert your financial resources in a foreign currency into the Polish currency, the average exchange rate of this currency announced by the National Bank of Poland on the last working day preceding the submission of the application for a temporary residence permit is used.
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.
Student next year
- current certificate issued by the unit providing education on admission to studies or continuation of studies signed by a person authorized to issue certificates for foreigners on current form;
- a printout of the student's periodic achievements card showing the current course of the education process;
- a valid certificate issued by the unit providing education on the amount of tuition fees and/or confirming the payment of tuition fees in a given academic year (the amount of fees for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year);
- a document confirming possession health insurance;
- height documents housing costs containing information on the amount of fixed service charges, charges for the delivery of energy, gas, water to the premises and the collection of sewage, waste and liquid impurities
- documents confirming having sufficient financial resources to cover the costs of living in Poland (for each month of stay + 3 months), studies and return travel, after deducting housing costs,
If you are staying in Poland alone, the minimum amount to cover the cost of living is PLN 776 for each month of stay, after deducting the cost of the return trip to the country of origin, study costs for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year and accommodation costs for each month of stay. If you are staying in Poland with family members who are dependent on you, you must have funds in the amount of at least PLN 600 for yourself and each family member for each month of stay, as well as funds to cover the costs of return travel for you and your family members, residence for each month of stay and study costs for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year.
The amount of financial resources to cover the costs of the return trip to the country of origin is:
- PLN 200, if you come from a country neighboring the Republic of Poland,
- PLN 500, if you come from a different EU Member State than neighboring Poland,
- PLN 2500 if you come from a country that is not a member of the European Union.
What documents do we recognize:
- traveler's check;
- a certificate of the credit card limit issued by the bank that issued the credit card;
- a certificate confirming that the foreigner or the person on whom the foreigner is dependent has cash in a bank or cooperative savings and credit union with its registered office in the territory of the Republic of Poland or another European Union Member State, a Member State of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) - parties to the agreement on the European Economic Area or the Swiss Confederation;
- a document confirming the granting of a domestic or foreign scholarship;
- certificate of employment and the amount of earnings of the foreigner or the person on whom the foreigner is dependent.
The above certificates must be issued not earlier than one month before the date of submitting the application for a temporary residence permit. To convert your financial resources in a foreign currency into the Polish currency, the average exchange rate of this currency announced by the National Bank of Poland on the last working day preceding the submission of the application for a temporary residence permit is used.
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.
Preparatory course for studies
- current certificate issued by the unit providing education, signed by a person authorized to issue certificates for foreigners current form;
- a valid certificate issued by the unit providing education on the amount of tuition fees and/or confirming that tuition fees have been paid in a given academic year (the amount of fees for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year);
- a document confirming possession health insurance;
- documents confirming having sufficient financial resources to cover the costs of living in Poland (for each month of stay + 3 months), studies and return travel.
If you are staying in Poland alone, the minimum amount to cover the cost of living is PLN 776 for each month of stay, after deducting the cost of the return trip to the country of origin in the amount of PLN 200, the cost of studying for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year and the cost of living in each month of stay. If you are staying in Poland with family members who are dependent on you, you must have funds in the amount of at least PLN 600 for yourself and each family member for each month of stay, and funds to cover the costs of the return trip for you and your family members in the amount of PLN 200, accommodation costs for each month of stay and study costs for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year.
What documents do we recognize:
- traveler's check;
- a certificate of the credit card limit issued by the bank that issued the credit card;
- a certificate confirming that the foreigner or the person on whom the foreigner is dependent has cash in a bank or cooperative savings and credit union with its registered office in the territory of the Republic of Poland or another European Union Member State, a Member State of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) - parties to the agreement on the European Economic Area or the Swiss Confederation;
- a document confirming the granting of a domestic or foreign scholarship;
- certificate of employment and the amount of earnings of the foreigner or the person on whom the foreigner is dependent.
The above certificates must be issued not earlier than one month before the date of submitting the application for a temporary residence permit. To convert your financial resources in a foreign currency into the Polish currency, the average exchange rate of this currency announced by the National Bank of Poland on the last working day preceding the submission of the application for a temporary residence permit is used.
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.
A temporary residence permit for the purpose of studying is also granted to a foreigner who intends to take a preparatory course to start studying at these studies, if he/she is a citizen of the country specified in the regulations issued on the basis of art. 144 sec. 18 about foreigners. Pursuant to the regulation of the Council of Ministers, the state whose citizens taking a preparatory course to start studies are granted a temporary residence permit for the purpose of studying is Republic of Belarus.
Citizens of countries not listed in the regulation taking a preparatory course to study at university are granted a temporary residence permit in order to study.
Studies covered by an EU (e.g. ERASMUS) or multilateral program
- current certificate issued by the unit providing education on admission to studies or continuation of studies signed by a person authorized to issue certificates for foreigners on current form;
- a valid certificate issued by the unit providing education on the amount of tuition fees and/or confirming the payment of tuition fees in a given academic year (the amount of fees for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year);
- a document confirming possession health insurance;
- height documents housing costs containing information on the amount of fixed service charges, charges for the delivery of energy, gas, water to the premises and the collection of sewage, waste and liquid impurities
- documents confirming having sufficient financial resources to cover the costs of living in Poland (for each month of stay + 3 months, but not more than 2 years - the first permit and not more than 3 years in the case of a subsequent one), studies and return travel, after deducting housing costs,
If you are staying in Poland alone, the minimum amount to cover the cost of living is PLN 776 for each month of stay, after deducting the cost of the return trip to the country of origin, study costs for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year and accommodation costs for each month of stay. If you are staying in Poland with family members who are dependent on you, you must have funds in the amount of at least PLN 600 for yourself and each family member for each month of stay, as well as funds to cover the costs of return travel for you and your family members, residence for each month of stay and study costs for the entire current academic year and the next semester of the next academic year.
The amount of financial resources to cover the costs of the return trip to the country of origin is:
- PLN 200, if you come from a country neighboring the Republic of Poland,
- PLN 500, if you come from a different EU Member State than neighboring Poland,
- PLN 2500 if you come from a country that is not a member of the European Union.
What documents do we recognize:
- traveler's check;
- a certificate of the credit card limit issued by the bank that issued the credit card;
- a certificate confirming that the foreigner or the person on whom the foreigner is dependent has cash in a bank or cooperative savings and credit union with its registered office in the territory of the Republic of Poland or another European Union Member State, a Member State of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) - parties to the agreement on the European Economic Area or the Swiss Confederation;
- a document confirming the granting of a domestic or foreign scholarship;
- certificate of employment and the amount of earnings of the foreigner or the person on whom the foreigner is dependent.
The above certificates must be issued not earlier than one month before the date of submitting the application for a temporary residence permit. To convert your financial resources in a foreign currency into the Polish currency, the average exchange rate of this currency announced by the National Bank of Poland on the last working day preceding the submission of the application for a temporary residence permit is used.
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.
What should I know?
If your details (place of residence, studies or the number of dependents) have changed during the procedure, make the appropriate changes on your account on the inPOL Foreigner Portal and inform the Department of Foreigners of the changes in writing via post or registry office.
After obtaining the permit, you can work in Poland without the need for a work permit.
It is your duty to inform the Governor who issued your permit, within 15 working days, about the cessation of the reason for granting the permit, e.g. about being struck off the list of students, resigning from studies or changing the university.
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.
You will find the rules for reviewing case files HERE.
I have received a decision - how to obtain a residence card?
We issue a residence card after obtaining a positive decision on granting a permit.
Wait for an SMS message with the date of receipt of the decision and the card. Remember to inform the Office of any change of residence and contact number.
If you are unable to pick up the card within the specified time, report this fact via the contact form available at here.
Customer reception hours: Monday 10:00-17:30, Tuesday - Friday 8:00-15:00
