UK, Ireland / How to find a job in the UK coming from Poland? [8]


Do you think someone will hire you on the basis of mails and a telephone conversation? Keep on dreaming.

Law / Permanent Residence in Polska: procedures, list of documents, etc. [59]


Don't remember really, way too long ago :). Basic condition was to have a permanent meldunek (without that one you cannot even apply), to live here uninterrupted for more as five years. My wife is Polish, but don't know if that was a condition as well. (I mean being married to a Polish citizen). What I do know is that they did not ask about my work or financial situation.

Law / Permanent Residence in Polska: procedures, list of documents, etc. [59]

Nowhere on the application document is there something mentioned about work history.

Law / I got an EU permanent residence permit and it is a flimsy piece of paper [26]

Common sense would tell that residence permits are not valid travel documents, what with all these "students"urgently asking if their karta pobytu allows them to work anywhere in the EU :)

And Harry I think you would be outright excluded from getting the new card....Without a Pesel you would be lost completely in the application process. Still don't understand why you vehemently oppose having a pesel though.

Law / I got an EU permanent residence permit and it is a flimsy piece of paper [26]

That's how it looks like.
cpd.msw.gov.pl/dokumenty/potwierdzajacy_prawo_stalego_pobytu_obywatela_UE

On the reverse side there is also mentioned (not shown here), your adress where you are registered (zameldowanie), your nationality and your Pesel number. Note that the card is valid for 10 years, despite the fact you have permanent residence. After 10 years it is renewed for another 10 years.

This card is only and exclusively for EU citizens.

Law / I got an EU permanent residence permit and it is a flimsy piece of paper [26]

Harry, no idea. I am using my Belgian ID-card for traveling. Main thing I have a decent card now which will last its 10 years.
But what was quite interesting that the lady in the EU department (very helpful and very friendly) she smiled and told me when I remarked I finally got a decent card, that I got the best card possible and that others got - and she showed a white document without photo. So it seems there is still another kind of karta pobytu in use.

Very confusing this all is. But I suspect the white piece of paper could be a temporary one.

Law / I got an EU permanent residence permit and it is a flimsy piece of paper [26]

Yes, I picked it up two days ago. Quite an improvement on the old one! This at least will survive the next 10 years :)

Classifieds / English cuisine week in Lidl shops in Poland [203]

So how would you rate that Red Gloucester?

Study / What are the steps for a stay permit (due to studies in Poland)? [14]


That's how these private "universities" make money. Not by their "teaching".


So what would you call it then?

Work / How to find work in Warsaw "if u don't speak Polish" ! [176]

Most likely all these offers are with Infosys. Be advised they pay peanuts and the job rotation is exceptionally high there. That's why they are constantly hiring. But yes, for foreigners without knowledge of Polish and Poland it is a short-term solution.

Law / Kat C+E license in Poland - exchanging a USA drivers license for Polish [5]


I am always never at the foreigners' department here in Warsaw but when I am there, I find it very funny how all these americans have to stand in line with all the rest of the non-Europeans. No red carpet here :)

Law / Kat C+E license in Poland - exchanging a USA drivers license for Polish [5]

Tell me, would European drivers be able to exchange their licenses in the United States of Total Paranoia (just quoting Clarkson here). You are not EU, take the exam, period.

Classifieds / English cuisine week in Lidl shops in Poland [203]

Saw in our local Lidl that they will offer from the 5th or the 7th (I am not sure) five different British cheeses. Don't recall all names but Stilton for sure, also Gloucester and Wensleydale.

gazetka.lidl.pl/4f9340a8-fd5f-4e33-91e6-cabaf539a5be/#/20

Can anybody from the UK on this forum advise me which of the cheeses offered by Lidl this week are good / so-so / avoidable?
Stilton I don't like at all, besides of that they have on offer:
Red Leicester, Gloucester, Wensleydale, Cheshire. I am not really familiar with English cheese so some guidance would be welcome :)
What also mystifies me they are all from the same producer, but still are meant to be regional cheeses?

Law / Can non-EU spouse/dependent work without work permit in Poland? [26]


Which are in your view the per standard rules?

Food / Can you buy HP Sauce in Poland? [20]


For sure since some time = few months. There is a Rossmann store now in its place.

Food / Can you buy HP Sauce in Poland? [20]

Jon, from what I know Mini Europa has closed down - at least the ones on Plac Wilsona and Bonifraterska.
Anyway the prices they charged....good riddance.

Life / Safety to live in Bialystok, Poland? [28]

I would think every Vietnamese in Poland would have have his/her network laid out

Work / Muslim woman in Poland trying to get a job (do Poles like hiring 'different' people?) [17]

After what happened in Paris today, every muslim should be quiet. Poitiers 732, great moment.

Law / PESEL for EU citizen working for a EU company (not Polish) in Poland [42]


Do you have a karta pobytu? If yes, you have to have a Pesel. If not, how do you get by without any of these?

Anyway, I don't understand your reluctance to have one. First thing I did in Poland was to get a meldunek and a pesel. And when I started to work, a NIP as well.


I am going every month to our local ZUS office to have my declaration DRA printed and stamped, and for sure each time they ask for my NIP.

Law / PESEL for EU citizen working for a EU company (not Polish) in Poland [42]


I still don't get that one - and I live since ages in Poland - how you can get by without a Pesel. You need it practically for everything.


For sure you need a NIP to pay ZUS. In any online banking program you have to fill in your NIP, and as a second reference Pesel or Regon. There is no way around that.

Travel / Student from Algeria needs help to get a visa to Poland (booking too expensive) [11]


You mean two of the best cities in Poland.


Such as looking for the perfect backdoor to the EU?

Work / Job in Poland for MBA [10]


So...why do you want to come to Poland if you have such a good job in India? Did you consider maybe the UK?

Law / I got an EU permanent residence permit and it is a flimsy piece of paper [26]

I went today to Plac Bankowy (where the EU section of the Foreigners' department now is located). Zero waiting time. The very friendly lady confirmed - Yes the piece of paper I have is now replaced by a plastic card, very similar to the Polish ID card. Theoretically you can only change it for some specific reason, but immediately I had one - my old photo is not me anymore (no moustache). Got the relevant "wniosek". Now only have to make the passport photographs and wait three weeks.

Travel / Where do you want to open international traveler's guest house in Poland? [7]


The biggest tourist trap in Poland if you ask me.

Life / Do Polish Barbers secretly hate their clients? [7]


I do not think "English-speaking barbers" and "inexpensive" go together. Any barber speaking English who has a brain will know that these clients are expats and so have money...so....

Wroc,,,don't you have any Polish at all?

Travel / Where do you want to open international traveler's guest house in Poland? [7]


Beats me why anybody would like to go there.... And where is Wrocław in that list?

Life / Pepper Spray in Poland? [36]


I am driving all the time in Poland on all kinds of roads everywhere. Never saw any of these imaginary "Romanian car jackers". Also never read something about this in the press, not even in the colored ones....

Life / 37020 British expats in Poland [25]


The funny thing is though, you never see them on the streets. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places or live in the wrong neighborhood, but I am often wondering where they hide themselves...Except for Wólka Kosowska that is of course.

Law / Karta Pobytu - Is the plastic card only given to non-EU people? [8]


I have this since a few years, but it is a salmon-pink piece of paper - strongly resembles the first page of a passport. Definitely no plastic card.

Anyway, I intend to check it out at Długa 5 here in Warsaw next week.

Travel / Do trains in Poland arrive on time? [38]


It is vastly modernized since many years with no end in sight. If you would take the train on this line frequently you would know, but obviously you do not.


warszawa.gazeta.pl/warszawa/1,34889,17061495,Kiedy_skonczy_sie_gehenna_pasazerow_kolei___Tracimy.html#TRrelSST

I am traveling on the Warszawa-Grodzisk line several times per week for my work, and I can testify it is a horror.
And since this funky Pendolino is flashing by it only got worse.