Law / Ways of getting Permanent residency in Poland [101]

It seems that there are no preferences for spouse. Through marriage spouse can get "ZEZWOLENIE NA ZAMIESZKANIE NA CZAS OZNACZONY" (permit to live for specified time) and after 2 years can get "ZEZWOLENIE NA OSIEDLENIE SIĘ", but it's for 2 years only.

But "ZEZWOLENIE NA POBYT REZYDENTA D£UGOTERMINOWEGO WE" (permanent residency) doesn't give any extra privileges in Poland which EU country passport wouldn't already give.

Funny thing is how do they check weather EU national has lived for this 5 years in given country?

In Poland we have "meldunek" - registration of living in specified apartment. Poland is in Schengen, so somebody from let's say Germany could do "meldunek" go back to Germany and nobody would stamp his Visa, register that he left the country. After 5 years he could claim that he was for whole time there in Poland. If polish bureaucrat, processing application, doesn't ask every EU country, weather applicant was working there or not, then he cannot deny the fact that he was for 5 years in Poland (albeit not insured and unemployed). He was registered as living here and he should believe him. Nobody checks if meldunek is legitimate.

Travel / Are pay as you go phones available in Poland for short stay? [5]

what Play has to do with Kraków?

Law / Ways of getting Permanent residency in Poland [101]

1. Claiming through ancestors. When coming from previously Soviet Union countries, then it's little easier thanks to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karta_Polaka
2. Through marriage and then around 5 years of continues living in Poland.
3. UE, EOG, KS nationals living and working continuously for 5 years in Poland can apply for permanent residency.
4. Citizen of other country living legally in Poland continuously for over 5 years and having health insurance and stable job.
5. President can grant polish citizenship.
6. Illegal immigrants living in Poland continuously for many years sometimes are lucky to get into abolition. Last time it happened in 2011. I don't know if it was first time or not.

7. As a refugee.

*continuously means every year for more than half a year

sources: paiz.gov.pl/prawo/legalizacja_pobytu_w_polsce

*continuously means more than 6 months per year and less than 10 months out of Poland in previous 5 years. (I couldn't edit my mistake)

Work / IT Jobs in Poland? [30]

Then register in goldenline and start sending cv. Search in google "praca it site:pl" to get into polish adds about work in IT. While sending CV you may get to agencies. I think they're mostly representing companies, so it's your job to browse all job adds available and apply for them. It's not so hard.

Here you have one agency: it.lsj.pl/en/job-offers/

Work / IT Jobs in Poland? [30]

Obviously you're searching for a job. Then register yourself on linkedin.com and goldenline.pl start sending CVs to headhunters there and straight to the companies. You advertised yourself enough here.

Work / what jobs are needed in poland right now?? where to study university? [12]

Yes, especially programmers and other engineers with few years good experience.

Law / Polish resident card questions (got accepted at Jagiellonian University) [5]

only temporary

Real Estate / Planning building permission in Poland (I have some land in the countryside) [3]

It doesn't answer exactly your question, but maybe will be helpful:


dom.pl/przebudowa-i-rozbudowa-a-pozwolenie.html

Work / Job Conditions and Monthly Expenses for students in Poland [16]

This website should give you some idea about prices in Warsaw:

History / Poland's Roads in the 17th Century [19]

https://books.google.pl/books?id=1xIIAAAAQAAJ&dq=poland+travel+guide&hl=pl&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false - here is mentioned how they looked in 19th century.

Work / Job Conditions and Monthly Expenses for students in Poland [16]

where are you from Ashraf?

Work / Job Conditions and Monthly Expenses for students in Poland [16]

Don't have foreign students some permit to work a little bit ? I thought that there is such a law. Everybody in Poland has heard about this university. Many polish student's go during summer to work in UK, because there they can earn few pounds per hour instead of few złoty here in Poland. Maybe you can do the same :)

UK, Ireland / Polish people in UK - participants for Masters Degree Project Needed!! [4]

Where is the biggest and most eastern European country on this list - Russia? Isn't Macedonia south European? And if not then why Greece is not counted as eastern? How come that Poland is eastern and Finland not?

Work / Poland work conditions (what kinds of different health coverages are there?) [5]

3. if something is a norm - like a gym pass, then most likely you will get it without asking.

2. as Sunny Girl wrote that a citizen (and probably person with residence permit) can register to job office and get free health insurance. But then you have to visit Job office regularly (1st after a month, later after 3 months) and be ready to accept the job which they find for you (few times you reject an offer and they'll remove you from their list and you'll loose free insurance). Other option for unemployed is to pay for public health insurance. It's 337zł per month.

But then I read that there is single surcharge for people who were not insured previously:


So it seams cheaper to get insurance from Job office, at least for 1 month and then continue paying this 337zł without need to pay 7 481,58 zł surcharge for lack of NFZ insurance history.

1. Public is only one - NFZ, there are also private insurers, but there is obligation for employed people to pay some percentage of their salary for public one. So private health insurance can be only addition to public (in order not to wait in queues for simple treatments)

Law / Small earnings registration in Poland [15]

ZUS - is retirement insurance
NFZ - is health insurance
When working with Umowa o Dzieło this 2 payment are optional (can be payed separately from this agreement), but then employee cannot go to hostpial or doktor for free or retire after age of 60/65.

I don't know to which numbers are you relating above. Probably PIT, but I don't remember what is the number of each field in PIT.

Law / Small earnings registration in Poland [15]

One more thing concerning "Umowa o Dzieło". There is no obligation to pay for NFZ when working with this agreement, but if wife is insured by husbands depending health insurance for unemployed people, then from start of employment she loses it. In other words, no free health insurance when working with Umowa o Dzieło. Free for over 26 years old is only for unemployed:

a) registered in PUP
b) from social help
c) from employed spouse.

Law / Small earnings registration in Poland [15]

If this is the case then husband can sign with wife "Umowa o dzieło"

wup.opole.pl/ciz/izawodowa/4_swiadczenie_pracy/porownanie_umow/porownanie_umow.htm

This type of "cywilno pranwy" agreement doesn't require ZUS payment. Although wife will have to pay income tax from all earnings in the year above minimum ~3000pln. In this type of agreement the subject is result, so you will have to write there that you will pay 100zł for teaching somebody some aspect of language for example. You cannot specify for how long and where, but should specify what should be proper result of this dzieło = "creation".

--edit
or maybe you can specify time. You should search for samples of Umowa o Dzieło for a teacher.

Law / Small earnings registration in Poland [15]

Why would you want to make a little bit of money on the side if even with whole minimum salary it's hard to survive?

Polonia / Aid for Polish Passport holder in Germany who has recently emmigrated from South Africa [3]

You can get discounted language classes "integration course" and assistance of Arbeitsamt in the search of work. Except of that if you don't have enough money to pay for obligatory health insurance and your own apartment, then you will be deported. It happens rarely, but the law says so. Money for pregnant and unemployed without apartment can be begged for only after 1 year of legal work in the country.

Law / Small earnings registration in Poland [15]

Normally black market solves such a problem.

Life / New to Poland (Bydgoszcz) - cost of living there [46]

Then ask them for 1 return ticket to India per year. Say that in India you have such thing, maybe they will give you :) You know it's up to company what you get. Mostly corporations give something extra, but in smaller firms you don't get any bonuses or benefits.

"You will be entitled to receive a relocation package in the amount of PLN 600 gross to a rented apartment. This will be paid for a period of 5 years (monthly) " - it would be funny if they pay you 600zł in 60 rates during period of 5 years = 10zł per month :) Because this is what they write.

Life / New to Poland (Bydgoszcz) - cost of living there [46]

LTA must be some Indian invention. In Poland worker has 20 to 26 days off pay year (26 is after 10 years of work, study time is included to that) + public holidays:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Poland

BenefitSystem Card - it's the card of the company you're applying for a job, so read their website or ask

Annual bonus as % of base salary According to the goals set in Balanced Score Card 10% - there is a chance for 10% of annual salary bonus if you perform according to their "Balanced Score Card" - it's something from your company

Global Capability Model level 5 - no idea what's that.

one more thing "+a relocation package PLN 600 gross (monthly) " - usually relocation bonus is one time only.

Work / Hoping to move to Poland this September as ESL teacher [5]

ESL - what's that?

Study / Jagiellonian university info (types of classes etc.) [4]

Do you speak Polish? Which course do you want to attend there. Give link to website of university with the name of the course, so we may help you finding more information about it. When you ask how hard it is to get there, do you mean bachelor studied in business or something else? How would you like to study here, does your American university has a cooperation with UJ? When it comes to business, SGH in Warsaw and UW are the best I guess. Kraków is a nice students city.

Travel / Whats the cheapest way to get around Poland... train or bus? [25]

The link i provided - intercity.pl/en/ is website of PKP and they sell tickets online for normal price. Together with biletyregionalne.pl. I they offer online tickets for all connections in Poland If I am not mistaken. I've just noticed that rozklad-pkp.pl started selling tickets too.

Travel / Whats the cheapest way to get around Poland... train or bus? [25]

en.e-podroznik.pl - the best website with bus connections search. Tickets for some companies can be bought online too.
intercity.pl/en/ - tickets for intercity, usually faster and more expensive trains. they sell online
biletyregionalne.pl/login - here are sold tickets for regional trains, but nobody bothered to make english version.

Work / IT Jobs in Poland? [30]

gowork.pl/praca_krakow_helpdesk
jooble.com.pl/search-vacancy-pl/rgn-Kraków/kw-help-desk
pracuj.pl/praca/helpdesk;kw/kraków;wp

if job advertisement is written in Polish then there is big chance that this language is required for the position.

Law / Bringing dollars to Poland, what interest rates can I negotiate? [32]

"I love banking here, no checks to deal with, everything is "free" bank-transfer from your smart-phone or web browser. Very convenient and safe."

- it's standard for Europe. You must be from USA I guess.

News / Why is Amazon not present in Poland? [57]

johnmercerlondon.wordpress.com/2011/09/

Everybody younger than 40 with internet is buying here online. There were gossips that our postal service is not acceptable for Amazon. But I find it funny. If it's too slow for them here then could simply inform that shipping in Poland takes 1 day more than elsewhere.


Apparently you have not idea about earnings of companies like Allegro. Difference to top countries can be explained by lower percentage of internet users here.

Study / How hard is it to get accepted to Wroclaw University of Technology? / Unis in general? [37]

Why are you surprised. He was simply explaining to the young guy what the university is.