A Schengen visa allows you to enter and travel within the Schengen area and entitles you to stay on the territory of all Schengen countries. The length of stay or stays may not exceed 90 days in any 180-day period of time.
If you wish to stay even longer, you should apply for a residence permit , but not later than on the last day of your legal stay.
In general, you are entitled to stay in Poland for the purpose of tourism in visa-free travel or on the basis of a visa. Total stay on the territory of all member states of the Schengen area (including Poland) without the need to obtain visa cannot exceed 90 days within each 180 – day period.
If you plan to stay in Poland after the expiry of your visa you should submit an application for a temporary residence permit.
Please note, you should apply for a residence permit not later than on the last day of your legal stay.
Schengen visa – if a person possessing a visa will prove that in effect of unpredictable circumstances or because of humanitarian reasons he or she cannot leave the Schengen-Zone before the expiration date of the visa or before a period defined and allowed by the visa. Visa can be extended, if the owner or visa will prove that there exist important reasons that justify the necessity of the extension of the validity of the visa or the length of the stay defined by that visa.
You can send filled request for visa extension – at the latest on the last day of your legal stay in Poland, although the current photography and all the documents, which confirms circumstances enumerated in your request, as well as the confirmation of the possession of the financial means of support and the health insurance, you are going to need to submit in person in the office – in another case the proceeding will not begin. The exception of this rule is the situation when you currently stay at the hospital.
Submit the request for the duplicate assignment to your Governor, appropriately for your place of stay. For your request attach a document that confirms declaration of the passport loss, and best if you can, the copy of the visa that you have lost or the data in it and the current document of travel.
No, Governor is not able to assign any new visa. His only ability is to extend a visa that you already have, and that is only in specified circumstances.
If you submitted the request for the periodic stay that did not include any formal deficiencies and the document that is the basis of the stay on the territory of Poland expired, then your stay in Poland is legal and you can get a stamp for your passport. Governor does not issue any visas for the time of the proceeding.
In the moment of your request submission, you will receive a password and a login for an online application, in which you can track the progression of your case and where you can check, whether the decision on the extension of the visa has been delivered and whether it is ready. On the website, you are going to find the information on the place of the visa pick-up. At the same time, we will send the decision on your visa extension to the address given by you in your request. In this decision, we will inform you, if your visa was extended or not.
Yes, Governor can extend the visa Schengen, also the visa which is extended by another country than Poland from the Schengen-Zone.
