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KateFromSydney   
11 Feb 2010
Work / An Australian girl living in Poland: Residence permit, please help! [44]

I've never had a problem entering the UK... I don't understand these stories of people being hassled by customs officers about how much money they have and the like.

Well, I have information from 2 people that were once in my situation.

They simply went to the Czech Republic and back.
They successfully got their resdidency after doing this.
Obviously there is no stamp in their passport to prove they did, and even so it's still in Schengen. But I have two first hand accounts of this actually happening. All they had to do was produce their ticket, they didn't necessarily have to actually use it.

Now this is strange, but at this point it seems to be my only hope.
Theories?
KateFromSydney   
10 Feb 2010
Work / An Australian girl living in Poland: Residence permit, please help! [44]

It took around four months to get a response for the work permit. It actually really took them two months but the monkeys at the Polish bureau of bureaucracy semmed to "lose it in the pile" the date it was approved on the document was two months before they finally "found it".
KateFromSydney   
10 Feb 2010
Work / An Australian girl living in Poland: Residence permit, please help! [44]

Thank you so much lowfunk and delphiandomine.
It turns out that the applying 45 days beforehand thing is only applied to the residency application, not the work permit. But you must have a work permit to apply for residency.

Very very frustrating.
KateFromSydney   
10 Feb 2010
Work / An Australian girl living in Poland: Residence permit, please help! [44]

Time means> The right thing... apply for a work permit the day you arrive. It takes more than 90 days for that to come through, plus another 90 days, sometimes more for the residency permit to come through. Impossible.

Harry> Who are the idiots here? You'd think if a law were to be enforced it would most definitely be applied at the border.

If the general consensus here is that I've already broken the law then I'm definitely leaning towards having a long stay here now because the end result will be the same as leaving tomorrow.

Any thoughts?
KateFromSydney   
10 Feb 2010
Work / An Australian girl living in Poland: Residence permit, please help! [44]

Thanks for your response inkrakow.
So what you are saying is that I can technically get away with leaving and returning every 90 days, but if I apply for residency after doing this they will take my application fee and kick me out with a Schengen ban?
KateFromSydney   
9 Feb 2010
Work / An Australian girl living in Poland: Residence permit, please help! [44]

Does anyone have any personal experiences.
I've been trying to do the right thing here but it seems impossible.

I've got some serious thinking to do. If anyboy else has an opinion on this it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks -Kate.
KateFromSydney   
8 Feb 2010
Work / An Australian girl living in Poland: Residence permit, please help! [44]

Ok, I've trawled through these forums and I know this has been covered many times but the answers are convoluted at best. If somebody with experience could please help me it would be much appreciated.

So this is my situation, in clear point form....

I'm an Australian girl living in Poland.
I arrived on a 90 day Schengen visa and really liked the place.
I applied for a work permit as an English teacher.
I waited and waited for a response but had to get out of Schengen before my 90 days were up.
So I went to Ukraine for a few weeks waiting it out.
I finally gave up waiting and came back.
The permit finally came through but it's not valid untill I get a residency permit.
Now at this point I know that I've broken the 90 days out of 180 rule, but I have not stayed longer than 90 days at one time.

My second round of a 90 day stint is almost up and I'm wondering what to do.
I know the law states that you can only stay 90 out of 180 but there are many stories of people still getting away with "border runs".

I also know that I should have applied for this residence permit 45 days before my Schengen visa expired in order to get a response in time. But this whole process was impossible for me.

Basically here are my options.....
I can try to leave Schengen and return at the cost of many hundreds of PLN with the risk of being refused re-entry. If I successfully return I would I apply for a residence permit at the cost of many hundreds of PLN.

There are many ifs and buts about this expediture being worth while.
I mean I've broken the 90/180 rule, is it worth doing any of this at all?
I would like to stay in Poland. If I've already broken this "Rule" and will get banned from Schengen for three years then I figure I may as well stay here for as long as I can. I have the means to support myself so why not enjoy my time here for a couple of years then deal with that ban when I'm ready to leave. By that point I won't care so much about the ban, there's a whole world to see.

Can anybody please proffer some advice.
I know there is 90/180 rule but I see people getting away with this.
Can people please tell me their experiences?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Yours -Kate