How many British citizen's live in Wroclaw?

i was wondering how many british citizen's live in wroclaw or travel there weekly? any information will be very helpful! :)

Must be in the high thousands, Poland is over-run with Brits at the moment/

do u know where i could find that information?

Maybe the British Embassy. They should have a record of the numbers of Brits who are registered in Wroclaw- zameldowania. Of course, there will be plenty who are not officially registered but no-one will have that information.

Not very many. Guess from experience: 50 to 100

Zameldowanie in what sense? The concept of a Meldunek doesn't exist in the UK.

There was the old Foreign Office LOCATE service but there was no real need to use that if you live somewhere safe in Europe and in any case it was scrapped worldwide last year.

Indeed not many. To compare: the number of Belgians registered with the embassy here in Warsaw is around 900-1000 (that includes also presumably partners from Belgians, who thus have dual nationality). But for sure there are more who do not bother to register with the embassy at all.


But don't you Brits need to have a permanent adress somewhere, in case you need a passport or so?

Indeed, and I come across Americans more regularly than Brits. Most of the Brits here are clinic patients and can be found hanging around Magnolia Park and Tesco there. I would say there's approx. 2x or 3x more Americans here. There are also a small number of Indians (mostly IT staff), Spaniards, Middle Eastern and, of course, probably a few thousand Koreans.

I'm always excited to hear a British or Irish voice somewhere, but sadly it's a rare thing and usually limited to a stag party in the Rynek.

The last time I met any Brits they were in a large and very well mannered group leaving Spiz, each said thank you as I held the door for them. Sadly, don't hear thank yous nearly as often from Poles. They were probably business people for one of the IT firms here. Following that, there were 4 or 5 younger ones in a restaurant, they seemed to be employees of somewhere. Very few, usually, in fact I am not sure they even number 50. The reason for the low numbers is that salaries here are very low compared to the UK and elsewhere, I guess.

No. Not in the UK. You can give any address when you apply for a passport. Since 9/11 banks want to see a utility bill or a tax or other government letter when you open an account as proof of address, but then again, you can give any name you like to the electric company and any address you like to the tax office. Anybody can add themselves to the register of voters. I use an address that I've never actually lived at, simply because I can receive mail safely there.


I bet there's more than you think, living quietly in the suburbs - maybe you don't notice them unless you hear someone speaking.