I am POLISH and I know it is TRUE. My father, brother and cousin are PRACTICING lawyers in Warsaw and WERE NOT able to circumvent the system for my wife and I when applying for our second sons passport, as a result we had to physically make a trip to Poland to apply.
I really do hope that your father, brother and cousin are not practising lawyers: if they are, they are almost certainly giving people incorrect advice.
The reality is that one parent must apply for the passport in person and the other needs only sign a consent form in front of a notary. Allow me to quote from the website of the Polish embassy in Canada:
An application submitted by one of the parents together with a written consent of the other parent with his/her signature that have been confirmed by a Notary Public or by a passport organ is considered as if it had been submitted jointly by both parents.
ottawa.msz.gov.pl/en
It is important to note that the above applies only to children who are under 13 (i.e. is applying for a 5-year passport). If the child is 13 or over (i.e. is applying for a 10-year passport), only the signature (in person) of one parent is required, but the child must collect the passport in person and sign for it. And of course a court can order a passport to be issued without the consent of either parent or even against the wishes of both parents if the court considers that to be in the interests of the child.
The same rules applied to the ID card.
Yes, precisely the same: if under 13, at least one parent in person and the signature of the other parent witnessed by a notary; if at least 13, both at least one parent and the child in person.
Conversely, my wife however merely sent the forms to Paris with our sons Swiss birth certificate for his British passport, a signed photo, payment and a completed form.
So you live in Switzerland. OK, let's see what the Polish embassy in Bern has to say:
[Rough translation: An application which is made by one parent (who is a Polish citizen) with the written consent of the other parent, with the signature certified by the passport authority in the country (i.e. a Polish consul) or a notary public in Switzerland, is considered to have been made jointly by the parents.]
berno.polemb/?document=521
Your FACTS are clearly flawed and suit only YOUR obsessive pursuit of perpetuating your anti Polish stance.
And now we come to the reason for your post: you are trolling. Unfortunately you have encountered somebody who is at the moment actually in person going through the process which you claim, which has led to you being busted.
Ironside: You are appear as very controlling person, they are hard to stomach.
Come on, how on earth did you manage to deduce that Freud. How can offering knowledge be controlling.
Don't worry about it. Just as 'Sickofant' is one of our regular posters trolling (my money would be on grubas), ironside is simply giving his traditional knee-jerk reaction of siding with any Pole who is in any conflict with any non-Pole and automatically defending any Polish thing, no matter what it is, which is being criticised in any way by any non-Pole, no matter how accurate or valid such criticism is or what knowledge IS has.