Residence card — paper application

Your residence-card application,
filled in and ready to print

You answer questions in your language, and the wizard puts the answers onto the official form. You receive an application PDF, correctly completed to the form's requirements — print it, sign it by hand and submit it in person at the voivodeship office.

Fill in the application

The wizard is free and needs no account. You only create an account to download the finished PDF.

Answer the questions

In Polish, Ukrainian, Russian or English — the wizard guides you step by step.

Download the filled-in application PDF

The wizard puts your answers into the right fields of the official form.

Print, sign by hand and submit in person

You sign the printout by hand and submit it in person at the voivodeship office.

Paper form

What this form is

This is the official application to issue or replace a residence card. The wizard helps you complete the sections the applicant fills in. You add the signature and the office-only part by hand on the printout. This application is paper-only — the online MOS system handles other applications: temporary residence, permanent residence, EU long-term residence, and the CUKR application.

An important difference

The residence card is a document; the residence permit is the right

Right of residence

Residence permit

A temporary residence, permanent residence or EU long-term residence permit is the right to stay in Poland, granted by a voivode's decision. Permit applications are filed online, through the government MOS system.

Want to legalise your stay? This is not that form.

Document

Residence card

The residence card is a plastic card that confirms your identity and the residence right you already hold. This wizard is about the card itself: issuing or replacing it — after loss, damage, a change of data, or the card's expiry, and for the first card after a humanitarian-stay consent or for the closest family member of a repatriate.

The card application is paper-only, submitted in person at the office.

Replacing the card does not extend your right of residence.

Submitting the application

Where you submit it

A replacement application goes to the voivode competent for your place of stay; an issuance application goes to the voivode who granted your permit. If you hold a humanitarian-stay consent, you submit the application to the commander of a Border Guard unit or division. You submit the application in person, after booking an appointment.

What it costs

Card issuance or replacement fee

100 zł

Standard fee

0 zł

First card: humanitarian consent or repatriate family

200 zł

At-fault loss or damage

300 zł

Repeat at-fault loss or damage

The first card after a humanitarian-stay grant and the first card for the closest family member of a repatriate are free of charge. Secondary-school pupils and students, minors under 16 and applicants in financial hardship qualify for a 50% reduction — with the relevant certificate.

How much time you have

Deadlines

Replacement: file the application within 14 days of the event (loss, damage, a change of data, or a significant change in facial appearance).
Next card: file the application at least 30 days before your current card expires.

Attachments

What to prepare

Current photo (35 × 45 mm)

Proof of fee payment

Prepare a current photo (a 35 × 45 mm paper print — page 1 of the form has a box for it) and the proof of payment; for a next card and for a replacement — also the confirmation of your registered residence (zameldowanie). Confirm the number of photos and detailed requirements with your office. Report a lost or damaged card first, within 3 days, on a separate form — you receive a free certificate.

Questions and answers

It is a free tool that helps you fill in the residence-card application. It does not submit the application for you — you print the finished document and take it to the office.

No, not to fill in the application. An account is only needed when you want to download the finished application as a PDF.

The fee depends on the case — see the "Fee" section above for details.

For a replacement — to the voivode competent for your place of stay. For an issuance — to the voivode who granted your permit. With a humanitarian-stay consent — to the commander of a Border Guard unit or division.

A current photo (a 35 × 45 mm paper print), proof of payment and — for a next card and for a replacement — the confirmation of your registered residence (zameldowanie). Confirm the exact number of photos and detailed requirements with your office.

No. You submit the application yourself at the office. The wizard only helps you fill it in.

Ready to start?

Fill in the application in a few minutes and download the finished document.