Permanent residence permit

Decision

After reviewing the evidence and its possible supplementation, the voivode decides by means of an administrative decision on granting the permit, if they find that there are no obstacles to its granting, including assessing that the requirements for the permit have been met.

A foreigner who has obtained a permit is issued with a residence card (more in the tab: "Residence card"). The fee for issuing a residence card is PLN 100.

The Voivode will issue an administrative decision refusing to grant a foreigner a permanent residence permit if they find that there is a basis for refusing to grant a permit, which in relation to a foreigner may be related to:

• failure to meet the requirements for a permanent residence permit referred to in Article 195(1) of the Act on Foreigners, or

• entry of the foreigner's data in the list of foreigners whose stay on the territory of the Republic of Poland is undesirable, or entering the foreigner's data in the Schengen Information System for the purposes of refusing entry (with the proviso that the foreigner may be granted a permanent residence permit despite the data being listed in the SIS , taking into account the interest of the Issuing State, where there are serious reasons justifying the granting of the authorisation, in particular humanitarian reasons or resulting from international obligations), or

• the defence or security of the State or the protection of security and public order, or

• state interest, or

• entering into or existing a marriage in order to circumvent the provisions defining the terms and conditions of entry of foreigners into the territory of the Republic of Poland, their passage through this territory, stay in it and departure from it – if the foreigner applies for a permanent residence permit due to being married to a citizen of the Republic of Poland, or

• submitting in the procedure for granting a permanent residence permit an application containing false personal data or false information or attaching to this application documents containing such data or information, or testifying untruth or concealing the truth or forging or altering a document in order to use it as authentic or using it such document as authentic, or

• arrears with the payment oftaxes, except in the case of obtaining the exemption provided forbylaw,postponement,distribution into instalments of the payment or suspension in full of the implementation of the decisionof the competent authority, or

• failure to reimburse the costs related to the issuance and implementation of the decision to oblige the foreigner to return, which have been covered by the state budget, or

• lack of consent to treatment, in the case of being subject to the obligation of treatment pursuant to Article 40(1) of the Act of 5 December 2008 on the prevention and control of infections and infectious diseases in humans, or

• submitting an application during an illegal stay in Poland or illegal stay on this territory.

In the case of foreigners who have Polish origin and intend to settle in Poland and UK citizens referred to in Article 195(1)(10) of the Act on Foreigners, the grounds for refusal are limited to:

• failure to comply with the requirements for authorisation

• for reasons of defence or state security or the protection of security and public order

• submitting an application for a permanent residence permit containing false personal data or false information or attaching to this application documents containing such data or information, or providing false testimony or concealment of the truth or forgery or alteration of a document in order to use it as authentic or using such adocument for a document as authentic

• entry of the foreigner's data into the list of foreigners whose stay on the territory of the Republic of Poland is undesirable, or the foreigner's data are listed in the Schengen Information System for the purposes of refusing entry – in the case of UK citizens.

Foreigners who have been granted asylum in Poland may be refused a permanent residence permit only if they do not meet the conditions for granting this permit.

The decision on the permit is appealed to the Head of the Office for Foreigners (more in the tab: "Appeal").