Can a student who is married get a Polish Citizenship

Hi,I am from Nigeria,i am a student here in Poland for about 3 years now,and am planning to get married to a polish girl this year,i read an article about becoming a Polish citizen and i read that you can become a Polish Citizen if you are living in Poland legally for 5 years.

And my question is this, can someone who is a student,studying in poland for 3 years then decided to married apply for a polish citizen after 2 years or does the 5 year period apply to this person or once he get married the 5 years period just started,am not sure and i would be glad if anyone can enlighten me more on this issue...thanks

Welcome to the forums. I can't answer your question. I am curious as to why you are so keen to get citizenship. When you are married you will be entitled to stay in Poland.

Is it so that you can freely move around Europe?

Actually it is not about getting Polish Citizenship that is important,but what am thinking of is this,me and my fiancess are planning to move to Uk or Canada after we get married,so i was thinking if i just have to stay in Poland for only 2 years more to get the citizenship,i can as well stay but if it would be another 5 years,then we can both move to Uk or Canada and continue our lives there,don't you think it worth thinking of ? what is the possibilities 2 years or another 5 years ?

fair enough! hopefully someone on this website will already know the answer. good luck with your relationship.

I hope someone can help me with my enquiry

In britian and many other EU countries being a student does not count. you must be either working or self supporting for 5 years without touching public funds.

Hmmmm, wonder why you want to get married! All very calculated! No surprises there!

Poland is just a backdoor into the UK now that we have introduced the new points based system and changed ILR rules for none EU students!

I just hope it won't become a common practice. I count on our citizens (although something tells me that I'm being naive) they'll not sell themselves to crooks who want just get hold on PL citizenship and p!ss off afterwards.

i know some people just want to get hold of Polish Citizenship especially citizens from third world countries but the fact still remain if am studying here and fall in love with a girl here in Poland and there is possibility for me to get PL citizen in 2 years due to the fact that i've lived here for 3 years,then why not? but if it means 5 years will start from the moment i get married while i have no intension staying any longer.

You only want Polish citizenship in order to get in to the UK - that's what comes over in your post, you are calculated about it - why not go and live in Nigeria with your new wife to be? Why not stay in Poland? The UK is a small Island and cannot take anymore 3rd world immigrants!

I'm sure there is. Did you know if you get married and she gets pregnant than you can live and claim benefit in the UK?

then.

Only if he's been working here for 12 months! At present he qualifies for diddly squat in the UK, not even a visit :)

5 years you would have to wait, look on google its amazing what you find,

Even if you were there 4 years 11 months and 29 days, you are not a legal imigrant to poland, you are only there for study,

It would start again, so prob best to head back to nigeria.

Whoopsy! Guess I picked the wrong day to give up heroin!


As an aside, I was reading in the Lodz Daily that if someone has been on benefit for a certain period of time in England (can't remember how long) they are eligible to claim the same amount in Poland. Not bad eh? It comes to something like 4000 zloty a month - twice the averige income more or less...

Wrong, it comes to about 1,250 :) (JSA is £60 in the UK) and they are only allowed to claim for a maximum of 3 months! They also have to have been working in the first place to be able to have claimed JSA in the UK - this I have no issue with - falling on hard times can happen to anyone!

As a side note: get your facts right before you start spouting rubbish :)

Many countries block Nigerians as they produce the highest amount of scams and spam in the world. If you know IT you know this. This guys is not about love but just about getting a passport to work in UK. Its illegal if this is the case.

Is it really Nigerians, or foreigners using Nigeria's legal system (or lack of it) to send spam and commit scams?

Nigerians. If this guy was really in love with a Polish girl he should just ask her about the law. She lives there and his boyfriend. But he is first finding out the law then finding the country that will give him a passport in the shortest time then get his friends 1000s to do the same. How do I know? I have a website and gets spammed by countless people everyday on this subject. maybe this this forum will also become over run with spammers this is just the start. Once they find a site you can get 100s a day.

Actually that is not the case,am in Chicago right now working for a private equity company and there are so many polish people here living illegally,so i think it is not a good thing living illegally in a country,if polish document that make me live in Uk with my wife legal that is better than living illegally.

Mammest.. forget that side..all you in the forum...no that polish people are despirate too ..there are cases of polish people having fack marriages to marry American citizens in the US,,polish are as despirate as Nigerians..both have history of one crime or the other.scams e.t.c.polish want american citizenship hence nigerians and other want polish citizenship ....a black pot it calling another black......

to keep the record straight..MR mammest you have to me legally married for 3 years and living in poland for 2 years ...within the 3 years of your marriage and 2 years of residence in poland.. then you can legally apply for permanent residence permit ..after you get it you have to apply for polish citizenship immediately that will take 6 months before you will get it...

so is not just five years .......

thaz all folks
so **** off if you gat a contradictory notion..
ACE

you need to be married for 3 years, and have a stable job,if not ,the local government will not give you nothing,here the last decision is by the government worker and not by the law

WHY CANT SHE GO AND LIVE IN NIGERIA. I am sick of europe turning into africa, am sick of seeing more and more black faces in my country. you belong n africa not whte society so stay there.

your contry? guy is talking about moving to PL not Glasgow

So when the so called 'whites' of Europe go into the sun <as a lot of them do> and get a really good tanned, brown skin does that mean they are no longer white for a while ?

* Yup, ridiculous comment just as silly as your post is *

LOL

ShelleyS

so Mr what you are trying to say is that all Nigerians are scammers???you are wrong man.Remember this guy is a student here in Poland and not an illegal immigrant,do you know how much foreigners pay to school here?he has been living in Poland for 3 years,paying his tuition,it is a well known fact that unemployment is so high here in Poland therefore his parents must have been sending him money monthly for living expenses,if he wants a fast track citizenship in order to work,i believe paying someone would be a faster option for him.

It is bad to judge people based on their nationality.

That's a sad true. Lots of people from 3rd world countries are migrating to 1st ones. Unfortunally that's how it works now and in the past too. During the wars for example lots of European went to live in ohter countries like Brazil for example and oppened it doors to Europeans ( some of them could be our relatives, there are great great chances of you also having one there too) gave work and land for free during that time and never had any type of discrimination led them to the same way you think ..... you idiot!.

Let's not get so ignorant like this person that wrote such a crap and poor answer. I think this person was dropped my his mother when IT was a baby and hit his head really hard on the ground. That's the only answer I find for this type of THING.

Every country there is a law and obv. we have to respect it. I really hope you don't need to get out of your land.... wherever you are... As people like aren't welcomed anywhere else.