A permanent residence permit is granted, denied or revoked by the Governor competent for your place of residence.
You must submit your application for a permanent residence permit exclusively electronically via MOS, no later than on the last day of your legal stay in Poland.
A permanent residence permit is granted for an indefinite period. The residence card is issued for 10 years. An application for a new residence card should be submitted at least 30 days before the expiry date of the current residence card.
Learn how to replace your residence card.
In the new MOS portal, it will be necessary to create a new user account. User accounts from the previous version of MOS will not be transferred to the new MOS portal.
Please make sure that you have an active Trusted Profile, qualified electronic signature, or personal signature, which are required to sign the application in the system.
We would also like to remind you not to wait until the last day of your legal stay to submit your application once the new MOS portal is launched. You may find that one day is not enough to attach all the required documents to the application.
If you use the services of an attorney or representative and need support while completing the application, you may ask them to assist you during this process. However, the application itself must always be electronically signed by the foreign national. All other letters, applications, and documents at later stages of the proceedings may be submitted independently by the representative within the scope of the granted power of attorney.
Attaching all the required documents to your application in MOS at the time of submission may reduce the amount of official correspondence and shorten the processing time of your case. If clarification or additional explanation of the evidence in your case is needed during the proceedings, you may be asked to provide additional documents or give statements confirming the circumstances described in your application.
You will also need a Trusted Profile to create an electronic e-Delivery mailbox, necessary for receiving correspondence from the Office and supplementing documentation in your case.
More information about the MOS ICT system — the portal for submitting applications for residence permits in Poland electronically — can be found at:
Basic information about the MOS system
Representative / address
We recommend creating an e-Delivery mailbox — learn how to do it. Please also read our announcement regarding e-Deliveries.
If you go abroad and you do not appoint an attorney to handle the case, you should at least appoint an attorney for notification in Poland. If you did not indicate an attorney for notification, the letters intended for you will be left in the case file with the result of being delivered.
Inform us about a change in your mailing address, it will speed up the procedure.
You will find a form of the declaration concerning the place of living on our web page - it contains all information that should be placed in it, i.e. who provides the place of living, to whom it is provided, for what period of time and at what is an address.
If you have appointed a proxy, attach the original power of attorney to the documents. If you have more than one attorney, remember to indicate which you want us to send the correspondence to you.
Originals/translations
Submit documents in original (for inspection) or authenticated copy. If you send the documents by post, send them in the original along with a request for their return, after it will be used for the official purposes - after the proceedings have been completed, we will send the originals back to you.
If you submit documents in a foreign language in the application, it is also required to submit a translation of the document into Polish by a certified/sworn translator. You can fin a list of certified translators on the Ministry of Justice website.
