It is the authority competent for issuing birth, marriage, death certificates. At the office, you can also register foreign civil-status records, change your first name and last name, get married, acknowledge a child.
Permanent residence
It means that the examination of your case is finished, and thus it will not be subjected to evidentiary proceedings with regard meeting the requirements for granting a residence permit. Your case can be discontinued at your request (for instance, when you would want to leave the territory of Poland, and you do not want the residence permit to be granted) or ex officio (when certain permanent and irremovable obstacles have appeared rendering the further processing of your case impossible).
It is an insurance that covers the costs of medical treatment in Poland. Health insurance allows you to receive medical assistance form your General Practitioner (family doctor) or to receive hospital care, excluding accident insurance (so-called NNW). Your health insurance entitles you to use the services of medical facilities (health care centres, hospitals, clinics). Documents confirming having health insurance:
A document you need to submit when applying for a residence permit for a long-term resident of the EU.
It confirms your right to right to occupy the living premises, such as:
- a lease agreement, or
- a municipal housing lease agreement, or
- a deed of ownership of premises, or
- a lending contract for premises (on condition that the lender is your descendant, ascendant, sibling, spouse or spouse's parent).
These are some extraordinary, unusual circumstances that may occur in your life, e.g. illness, emergencies, other adverse events.
The Schengen Area countries include: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Italy, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, as well as Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland (the last four are non-EU Schengen countries).
Ireland and Cyprus are EU-countries which do not belong to the Schengen area.
It is a time during which you were outside of the territory of Poland. The length of an interrupted stay constitutes the basis for granting a long-term EU resident permit or a residence permit due to a marriage to a Polish citizen. Interrupted stay can be no longer than 6 months, and all interruptions cannot exceed 10 months in a period of 5 years unless the break was caused by:
A person is considered to be of Polish origins if s/he declares to have Polish nationality and who’s at least one parent or one grandparent or two great-grandparents have Polish nationality and proves her/his affiliation to Poland.
It is the period of your stay in Poland based on a visa or temporary residence permit issued for the purpose of full-time studies.
It is the period of your stay in Poland based on a visa or temporary residence permit issued for the purpose of learning in other forms that full time studies.
