Visas & Passport

• Visas
• Financial resources for the stay
• Invitation
• List of countries with nonvisa traffic
• Example of Polish visa application

Visas

The visa mode - by understanding Polish regulations - is a primary mode to allow entering the country. For a visa the foreigner goes after in a Polish consular unit abroad. He must be ready to tell his personal details, mention the declared time of stay on the territory of Republic and tell inter alia purpose of stay. The Consul will confirm accepting the visa proposal with a suitable seal in the passport. Depending on the type of the visa and validity date payments for visas will take 10 to 80 Euro. In case of rejection giving visa by the Consul, the remittances will not be paid back.

Citizens of states of European Union, several other European states and USA can stay in Poland without visa for 90 days , citizens of Great Britain - for six months.
From citizen remaining states is required Visitor's Visa, who (which) must be gotten in polish diplomatic outposts else before arrival to Poland.

Visa is valid 90 days and must be issue within six months from date of edition. In order that contest for visa to Poland, it is necessary to present valid passport from date of application (minimum 9 month), visa form and one photo.

In order to entering of Poland to the European Union the visa movement with Belarus, Ukraine and Russia were again acquainted. Thanks to bilateral indenture the citizens of Ukraine will not have to give visa payments.

In the applicant's passport, if of course the consular body will not refuse to enter and stay, can be visa:

• airline,
• transit,
  
• entrance in purpose:
  • repatriation,
  • displacement as a member of repatriate's closest family,
  • realization of a permission for placing for a specified or permission for settling down,
• residential in purpose:
  • tourism,
  • visiting,
  • taking part in sport games,
  • keeping business,
  • keeping cultural activity or taking part in international conferences,
  • realizing official tasks and representatives of foreign national bodies and foreign organizations,
  • taking part in proceeding in briefs about administrating the harbour,
  • making jobs,
  • science, training, didactic - with exception of making earning jobs,
  • using time security,
• diplomatic,
• official,
• courier.

The residential entrance visa is being given as:

• short-term - maximum stay on the territory of RP is 3 months in time of 6 months counted from the day of first enter,
• long-term -maximum to one year in the time of visa validity
  The residential entrance visa validity time can be up to 5 years.

Detailed rules of entering and stay on the territory of the Republic of Poland are contained in the law act from 13th june 2003 about foreigners (Dz. U. Nr 128, poz. 1175).

The body giving visa qualifies in the document:

• visa validity time, in which the foreigner may enter territory of the country and must leave it,
• time of foreigner's stay in the validity time and the purpose of stay in Poland.
• Financial resources for the stay
  If the purpose of going and staying in Poland is employment or making another earning job, there is another procedure for giving such visas.

The visa by itself in foreigner's passport doesn't give the guarantee to cross Polish territory. A very important thing, which for sure will interest border guards, is the ability for financial support at the time of stay.

Financial resources for the stay

A foreigner should upon request of a border guard show resources necessary to cover all costs of journey, stay and returning from country. It can be cash in polish currency (polish zloty) or in exchangeable currencies. Right for entering has also valid credit card and traveler's cheques. It may also be a confirmed by a bank's stamp and an authorized workers signature certificate of having suitable financial resources in a Bank, which has it's habitat on the territory of The Republic of Poland, but prepared not later than a month before crossing the border.

The amount of financial resources, which should have the foreigner entering the territory of the Republic of Poland, and the documents which may confirm having these resources and purpose crossing the border are regulated by the Ordinance of the Minister of Interior and Administration from the 29th September 2003 (Dz. U. Nr 178, poz. 1748).

For every day of stay, the foreigner should have equivalence of 100 PLN, and a child before the age of 16 - appropriately 50 PLN. However the sum for aged person should not be less than 500 PLN, and for a child before the age of 16 - 300 PLN. If the time of stay does not exceed 3 days, then required is - appropriately - equivalence of 300 and 150 PLN. The border guards will check if crossing border person has the possibility to pay the costs of exploiting a car, which he will use to travel on polish roads.

The border guards will not strictly demand from the foreigner a confirmation of having suitable financial resources if he is a member of an organized trip, youth camp, is going as a sports contestant for sports competitions or is going for a medical treatment or to a sanitarium. However in such case he may be asked to show documents confirming taking part in such venture with a proof of paying the costs of stay in Poland, or a relegation to a therapeutic unit. Such documents must have: exact data of a firm which filled these documents, data of the tourism service organizer, time and place of stay, exact track of the tour, first and middle name of the trip member and a confirmation of covered costs of the touristic service.

Members of touristic trips, youth camps, sport competitions or treatment and sanitarium trips however must have equivalence of 20 PLN for every day of stay, however not less than 100 PLN.

Invitation

A document confirming possibility of subsisting the foreigner coming to Poland can be invitation, made by a Polish citizen, living on the territory of the country or a foreigner living legally in Poland at least % years before writing the invitation. The border guards will acknowledge only the original invitation written on the formal form and registered in the invitation register, kept by an appropriate voivode for dwelling place of the inviter. The voivode will refuse the record to invitations file if inviting person or institution won't be able to prove and will not undertake, that is able to pay any costs of invitated person's stay on the territory of the Republic of Poland, with costs of eventual treatment.

List of countries with nonvisa traffic

Poland VISA REQUIREMENTS for holders of ordinary passports Citizens of the following countries are not required to be in possession of a visa when entering Poland for less than 90 days. Citizens from other countries not enumerated on the list above need to have a visa when visiting Poland. For further information, also concerning studies, work and stay over 3 months please contact the nearest Embassy or Consulate of Poland.

Example of Polish visa application

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Source: www.poland.gov.pl