Check-list - Temporary residence permit for high qualified workers (EU Blue Card)

Documents required to obtain a stamp in your passport (i.e. formal requirements)

  • Application form - fill in the on-line application or fill in the application in accordance with the instructions in 1 copy (application to be downloaded).
  • 4 photographs
  • A photocopy of a valid travel document (the original for inspection), in a particularly justified case, when you do not have any valid travel document and you are not able to obtain one, you may present another document confirming your identity.
  • Annex No 1 (download it here) to the application for the temporary residence permit should be fully completed and signed by an employer or a person authorised for representation of a company.

  • Annex No. 2 (download it here) to the application, completed in full by yourself together with an additional declaration regarding residence in another European Union Member State for at least 12 months on the basis of an EU Blue Card (declaration available for download).

To start the proceedings you also need the confirmation of the stamp duty payment.

Documents required to be granted the residence permit:

  • Annex No. 1 to the application confirms that you have the purpose of stay in Poland for more than 3 months and health insurance (in the case of an employment contract and a contract of mandate). 
  • a contract of employment concluded for a period of at least 6 months, a contract of employment, a contract of superimposed employment, a civil-law contract on the basis of which you perform work, provide services or are in an official relationship;
  • evidence of professional qualifications
The gross annual remuneration resulting from the monthly or annual remuneration specified in the agreement may not be lower than the equivalent of 150% of the average remuneration in the national economy in the year preceding the conclusion of the agreement.