How long does a residence permit take in Poland?
Temporary residence: the average wait for a decision runs from 249 days in the fastest voivodeship to 680 in the slowest. Average of the 16 voivodeships: 427 days (Office for Foreigners, decisions issued January 1 – September 28, 2026).
Temporary residence permits
- Śląskie: 680 days, Queue growing
- Pomorskie: 622 days, Queue growing
- Kujawsko-Pomorskie: 547 days, Queue growing
- Lubuskie: 519 days, Queue growing
- Opolskie: 498 days, Queue shrinking
- Podlaskie: 470 days, Queue growing
- Zachodniopomorskie: 461 days, Queue growing
- Mazowieckie: 425 days, Queue growing
- Lubelskie: 389 days, Queue growing
- Łódzkie: 383 days, Queue growing
- Wielkopolskie: 343 days, Queue shrinking
- Dolnośląskie: 329 days, Queue shrinking
- Świętokrzyskie: 328 days, Queue growing
- Podkarpackie: 313 days, Queue growing
- Warmińsko-Mazurskie: 278 days, Queue shrinking
- Małopolskie: 249 days, Queue growing
Poland
Days, average of 16 voivodeships: 427 days
Queue direction
1.27Queue growing
345,605 applications to 272,464 decisions, 2026 so far
migracje.gov.pl, sampled September 23, 2026
Average of the 16 voivodeships: 427 days.
Sources: UdSC, decisions issued January 1 – September 28, 2026; migracje.gov.pl, September 23, 2026.
- Shorter
- 0–249
- 250–349
- 350–449
- 450–549
- 550+
- Longer
Darker means slower. The arrow shows which way the queue is moving. Tap, click or Tab to a voivodeship.
Work permits
- Mazowieckie: 55,291 work permits and 79,403 oświadczenia in 2025
- Małopolskie: 33,698 work permits and 21,282 oświadczenia in 2025
- Łódzkie: 28,144 work permits and 27,129 oświadczenia in 2025
- Śląskie: 22,102 work permits and 27,978 oświadczenia in 2025
- Wielkopolskie: 19,653 work permits and 32,415 oświadczenia in 2025
- Pomorskie: 15,011 work permits and 30,043 oświadczenia in 2025
- Zachodniopomorskie: 13,730 work permits and 10,068 oświadczenia in 2025
- Podlaskie: 13,619 work permits and 12,724 oświadczenia in 2025
- Kujawsko-Pomorskie: 11,759 work permits and 14,194 oświadczenia in 2025
- Dolnośląskie: 11,232 work permits and 24,087 oświadczenia in 2025
- Opolskie: 7,598 work permits and 9,452 oświadczenia in 2025
- Lubelskie: 6,936 work permits and 15,678 oświadczenia in 2025
- Świętokrzyskie: 4,351 work permits and 2,255 oświadczenia in 2025
- Podkarpackie: 3,376 work permits and 4,158 oświadczenia in 2025
- Lubuskie: 3,006 work permits and 11,750 oświadczenia in 2025
- Warmińsko-Mazurskie: 2,019 work permits and 5,478 oświadczenia in 2025
Poland
Permits issued, 2025
251,525
Oświadczenia registered, 2025
328,094
An employer declaration, not a permit.
By permit type
- ZC-WWZPP (was A)
- 247,262
- ZC-WWZF (was B)
- 822
- ZC-WWZD (was C, D, E)
- 3,441
Sources: MRPiPS via psz.praca.gov.pl, permits January 26, 2026; oświadczenia February 16, 2026. Published twice a year.
- Fewer
- 0–4,999
- 5,000–11,999
- 12,000–21,999
- 22,000–34,999
- 35,000+
- More
Darker means the office issued more. This map counts permits, not days. Tap, click or Tab to a voivodeship.
Time to a decision, national only
82 days on average in 2025; oświadczenia 7 days. No official source publishes this per voivodeship.
Permit names
2025 counts, shown under the names praca.gov.pl has used since 1 January 2026.
Where the numbers come from
- Days to a decision
- Wydział Analiz i Statystyk, Urząd do Spraw Cudzoziemców, by written request, renewed each quarter. An average of completed cases: many applicants waited longer. Not a forecast for any case, and no office is bound by it. The statutory term for these proceedings is currently suspended.
- Queue direction
- UdSC statistics on migracje.gov.pl, read from its public JSON API: applications received divided by decisions issued, for the permit type shown, year to date, unadjusted. The API counts only by year, so we sample weekly; the series starts on 23 September 2026.
- Not shown
- International protection (decided by the Szef UdSC, not the voivodes) and Border Guard cases (enforcement, not a permit). Also work-permit duration by voivodeship: no official source publishes it.
Citing this
Krakspire Permit Barometer, krakspire.com/barometer/, retrieved [date].
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