Are you a person from outside the European Economic Area? Are you planning to stay in Poland for more than 3 months and want to legalize your stay? Don’t you know how to apply for a Temporary Residence Card?
Working in Poland, wanting to run a business in the country, continuing education, marrying a Polish citizen or coming to the Republic of Poland to reunite with family – these are the most common situations in which foreigners from outside the EEA apply for a Temporary Residence Card.
However, such cases are complicated. Firstly, depending on the reason for applying for a temporary residence permit, different formal requirements apply. In addition, there is the need to know immigration law and administrative procedures. It is easy to make mistakes when acting on your own. This in turn means that legalising temporary residence in Poland can take much longer.
The situation becomes much simpler if you are supported by an attorney for foreigners throughout the entire procedure. This is how you avoid common mistakes, such as a failure to attach the required documents to the application or filling out the form incorrectly. As attorneys for foreigners, we have been helping to legalize temporary stay in Poland since 2003. Providing services, we:
Using our experience, knowledge of regulations and administrative procedures, we supervise the course of the procedure and make every effort to ensure that the case is recognised as efficiently as possible.
Remember not to delay the decision. You must submit your temporary residence application no later than on the last day of your legal stay.
A foreigner must personally submit an application for a Temporary Residence Card (or Blue Card), but a proxy may accompany them to the office. As attorneys for foreigners, we help take care of all formal issues. We make sure that you meet the statutory requirements and attach the necessary documents to the application, including confirmation of receiving a permanent income and insurance. We also help you prepare for your visit to the office, and then we supervise the entire process of obtaining a Temporary Residence Card.
We will help you take care of obtaining a permit for the employee so that they can legally stay in Poland and at the same time perform the work entrusted to them. By obtaining a single work and residence permit, the entire procedure will be carried out in one administrative procedure, and you will meet all formal requirements related to legal employment. However, if your potential employee has already received a residence permit on another basis – e.g. due to part-time studies – we will also help you take care of legalizing their employment.
If a foreigner is to perform a profession requiring high qualifications, they need a special type of temporary residence permit, the so-called Blue Card. Only then do you have the right to legally employ a specialist or a senior employee from outside the European Economic Area in your company. We will help you meet the formal requirements related to obtaining a Blue Card. We will tell you how to prepare a contract, application and necessary documents and we will represent you in the case of obtaining a Blue Card.
Our law firm located in the Warsaw Śródmieście district is a place where we make use of over 20 years of experience in handling foreigners’ cases. Knowledge combined with experience and familiarity with administrative procedures have already resulted in many successes in the cases of our clients from the Mazowieckie region and even from all over Poland. In our practice, we try to be more than effective attorneys. We are also guided by 3 important principles: honesty, flexibility and empathy. We make every effort to ensure that each client feels confident, knowing that an attorney is watching over their case and informing them about every progress. How do you like such principles of cooperation? If you do, contact us and tell us how we can help you.
A foreigner from outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland (i.e. a person from a so-called third country) should apply for a temporary residence permit, provided that the stay in the Republic of Poland is to be longer than 90 days. For the first 3 months, there is a possibility of legal stay under visa-free travel or on the basis of a visa.
A temporary residence permit is granted for a specified period of time from 3 months to 3 years. It cannot be extended. After the period specified in the permit has elapsed, it is necessary to apply for another residence card or leave the country. Moreover, if a foreigner has a single permit (residence and work permit), a change of employer or working conditions will also require an application for a new permit.
A Temporary Residence Card is a document confirming a temporary residence permit, on the basis of it a foreigner from outside the European Economic Area may legally stay in Poland for longer than 90 days. To obtain such a permit, it is necessary to submit an application with the required attachments. If it is considered positively, the foreigner receives a temporary residence permit in Poland for the period indicated in the permit – it will be up to 3 years. The Temporary Residence Card is a confirmation of obtaining the right.
