Work permit

In recent years Poland has become an attractive job market with very low unemployment and decent salaries. However if you are planning to pursue a professional career here and you are not a citizen of European Union or Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, you will probably need to obtain work permits.

There are five major types of work permits:

Type A – most popular type of work permit. It is required if foreigner is employed either on the basis of employment contract or civil law contract by an employer with an office registered in Poland.

Type B – required if foreigner performs work consisting in performing a function in the management board of a legal person entered in the register of entrepreneurs or being a capital company in organization, or in connection with running the affairs of a limited partnership or limited joint-stock partnership as a general partner, or in connection with granting them a procuration for a total period exceeding 6 months in consecutive 12 months.

Type C – required if foreigner is delegated to Poland by a foreign employer for a period that exceeds 30 days in a calendar year to work for the foreign employer’s subsidiary or branch.

Type D – required if foreigner is delegated by foreign employer to work in export services in an occasional and temporary manner. It is important that the foreign employer does not have a branch or subsidiary of its own in Poland.

Type E – required if foreigner performs work for a foreign employer and is posted to the territory of Poland for a period of more than 30 days within consecutive 6 months for a purpose other than for the type B, C, D permits.

Our agency cooperates with local, English-speaking experts in this field of immigration law, who can advise you which type of work permit you will need to obtain in your personal situation. Moreover they can provide you with the full service of application procedure according to Polish law requirements so you can be sure that obtained work permit in Poland will be 100% valid and correct.

Please feel free to contact us if you are planning to apply for any type of work permit in Poland and we would be very glad to help you with the whole process.