It is the legal act regulating the conditions of foreigners' entry and residence in the territory of Poland and the criteria for issuing particular residence permits.
Work
It is a contract based on which you perform work/perform a specified activity/ achieve a specific result.
It is a type contract between an employer and an employee which is regulated by the Civil Code. The most civil law contracts are contracts of mandate and project delivery contracts.
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:
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.
This term covers the performance of work as a manager, specialist or an employee under training in the host entity, located in Poland, to which you have been temporarily delegated by the parent employer, located outside the territory of the EU Member States.
It is a document which entitles you to perform legal work in Poland, provided that you hold a valid visa or a residence permit. An extension of a work permit is issued at the employer request, on condition that previous work permit was issued due to work performed for the same employer. Learn more
An employer you were delegated to by a temporary employment agency. The customer/user-employer will only be determined in cases where provisions of the Act on the Employment of Temporary Agency Workers are applicable, and the temporary employment agency is the employer.
An employer is any natural person or any company, including temporary employment agencies, for or under the direction and/or supervision of whom the employment is undertaken. It is anyone who hires more than one person.
In Poland, any work can be performed under conditions defined in the contract between you and your employer. There are different types of contracts, such as:
