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.
FAQ
VISA EXTENSION
Created on: 14.02.2020
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.
Created on: 14.02.2020
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.
Created on: 14.02.2020
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.
Created on: 14.02.2020
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.
Created on: 14.02.2020
Yes, Governor can extend the visa Schengen, also the visa which is extended by another country than Poland from the Schengen-Zone.
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Period of the stay based on the extended visa cannot exceed the maximum period defined for the described kind of visa:
- 365 days – national visa (the exception exists for visa symbolized as D/-5, where the maximum period of the stay based on this visa equals 180 days in the succeeding 12 months);
- 90 days of the stay during the 180-day stay – the Schengen visa.
Created on: 14.02.2020
Governor can extend the visa in extraordinary circumstances, the national as well as the Schengen visa. You need to remember that the visa should be extended just once (the exception exists only in the situation when the foreigner is staying in the hospital.
Created on: 14.02.2020
The extension of the visa is possible only if during the stay in Poland circumstances occur such that you could not possibly forecast them in the time of submitting for the visa to the consul (count in-hospital stay, humanitarian, personal or professional reason that makes your leave from Poland impossible). Submit your request to extend the visa to the Governor right to your place of the stay, basing on the visa that you want to extend at the latest on the last day of your legal stay in Poland.
INTRA-CORPORATE TRANSFERS
Created on: 12.02.2020
The decision regarding granting the permit should be issued within 90 days. This period is counted from the day of submitting the application along with all necessary documents for confirming the regarding this type of permit. If the application is not accompanied by the above mentioned documents, the 90 days period is postponed until submitting all necessary documents.
