🪪Legalising Stay and Work20 July 2026 6 min read
Residence Card for Workers in Poland – How the Procedure Works
The temporary residence and work permit: when to file the application, what documents to prepare, and how not to lose continuity of legal stay.
- Applicant
- The foreign worker
- Authority
- Voivode
- When to file
- Before legal stay ends
- Outcome
- Residence and work in one document
Table of contents
What the single permit actually is
The temporary residence and work permit combines the right to stay with the right to work for a named employer. For the worker, this means one document instead of two separate procedures.
The application and the most common mistakes
- The application must be filed at the latest on the last day of legal stay
- Formal gaps extend the procedure by additional weeks
- Changing employer during the procedure requires updating the documents
- The correspondence address must remain valid throughout the whole procedure
Our role
We guide the worker through the entire procedure: we compile the documents, track deadlines and respond to requests from the office.
This material is for information only and is not legal advice. Polish regulations and the practice of the voivodeship offices may change – contact our team about your specific case.
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