Temporary residence permit on account of other circumstances (continuation of stay after a national visa issued under art. 60 ust. 1 pkt 23, the Poland.Business Harbour visa)
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Zezwolenie na pobyt czasowy ze względu na inne okoliczności (kontynuacja pobytu po wizie krajowej wydanej w celu, o którym mowa w art. 60 ust. 1 pkt 23) as of 2026-04-07[1] Recorded from the statutory chapter or article heading; the Office for Foreigners' own procedure page uses the same wording. Diacritics as published. |
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| Official name (English) | Temporary residence permit on account of other circumstances (continuation of stay after a national visa issued under art. 60 ust. 1 pkt 23, the Poland.Business Harbour visa) as of 2026-08-24[3] Working translation of the Polish statutory name. Poland publishes no official English text of the Act on Foreigners, so this is marked a translation, not an official English name. |
| Legal basis | Ustawa z dnia 12 grudnia 2013 r. o cudzoziemcach, art. 186 ust. 1 pkt 9 i ust. 5, art. 190 pkt 5 (consolidated text Dz.U. 2025 poz. 1079, as updated to 2026-04-07); rozporządzenie MSWiA z 14 czerwca 2022 r. (Dz.U. 2022 poz. 1335) as of 2026-04-07[1] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-04-07[1] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA, EFTA as of 2026-04-07[1] |
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| Minimum age | Not applicable Art. 186 ust. 1 pkt 9 imposes no minimum age. A minor's application is filed by a parent or guardian under art. 105 ust. 3, which is a procedural rule rather than an age threshold. |
| Criminal-record condition | No as of 2026-04-07[1] |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 3 years as of 2026-04-07[1] Art. 190 pkt 5: 3 years, granted once (jednorazowo). The Act states one figure for this route rather than leaving it to art. 98 ust. 2's ceiling, so bound is 'exact'. |
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| Renewable | No as of 2026-04-07[1] Art. 190 pkt 5 grants the permit jednorazowo – once only. |
| Renewal duration | Not applicable The permit is granted once and is not renewable. |
| Work rights | full as of 2026-08-07[7] Art. 3 ust. 1 pkt 14 of the Act of 20 March 2025 on the conditions for the admissibility of entrusting work to foreigners gives the holder of this permit free access to the Polish labour market (swobodny dostęp do rynku pracy): no work permit, no employer tie, no hours cap. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2026-04-07[1] Art. 212 ust. 2 does not exclude this permit. It does exclude, in pkt 2, the stay on the Schengen visa issued for the art. 60 ust. 1 pkt 23 purpose that precedes it – so the clock starts with this permit, not with the visa. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | No as of 2026-04-07[1] Art. 186 ust. 1 pkt 9 conditions the permit on having held the art. 60 ust. 1 pkt 23 national visa immediately before applying and on holding a designated nationality; it names no work, income, accommodation or insurance condition, and art. 188 does not extend any to pkt 9. Family placement is deliberate: the permit states no purpose of its own, and it is recorded in work because it carries free labour-market access and because the visa it continues is an IT-sector recruitment instrument. The remote-work coverage note points at it as the nearest thing Poland has. |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-04-07[1] None is imposed; art. 188 does not reach pkt 9. |
| Qualification requirement | none as of 2026-04-07[1] No qualification condition is imposed by art. 186 ust. 1 pkt 9. |
| Employer sponsorship | No as of 2026-04-07[1] No sponsor is required for the residence permit. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-04-07[1] Not a job-search route. |
Process
| Where to apply from | in-country only as of 2026-04-07[1][3] Art. 105 ust. 1: the foreigner files the application in person, no later than the last day of their legal stay in Poland. There is no consular stage for this permit. The pending amendment carried in the consolidated text rewrites art. 105-106a and moves filing into the Office for Foreigners' electronic Moduł Obsługi Spraw (MOS); the Office's own procedure pages already describe electronic filing through MOS. The entry-into-force date is to be announced by communique under art. 17 of the Act of 21 November 2025 (Dz.U. 2025 poz. 1794). |
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| Statutory processing time | 60 days as of 2026-04-07[1] Art. 112a ust. 1: the decision is issued within 60 days. Art. 112a ust. 2 starts the clock at the last of the qualifying events – a formally complete application and (until the pending amendment removes it) the applicant's personal appearance – so it is not a 60-day clock from lodging. |
| Observed processing time | Not established from a qualifying source No official observed-duration statistics were located for this permit; the Office for Foreigners publishes the statutory deadline, not outturn times. |
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Physical presence
| none stated | to keep the permit as of 2026-04-07[1] The Act on Foreigners attaches no minimum-presence or maximum-absence condition to holding a temporary residence permit. What it does attach, in art. 101, is withdrawal where the purpose of the stay ceases or the conditions of the grant are no longer met – a purpose test rather than a day count. The 6-month and 10-month absence limits recorded at country level under permanent_residency.absence_rules bite on the qualification for the EU long-term resident permit, not on this permit. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2026-04-07[1] Art. 159 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. e: a family member may be granted a temporary residence permit for family reunification where the sponsor has resided in Poland for at least 2 years on successive temporary residence permits and holds, immediately before the application, a permit granted for a period of not less than 1 year. This route is not one of the bases in lit. a-d or f-i that carry no waiting period. |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, minor child as of 2026-04-07[1] Art. 159 ust. 3: a spouse in a marriage recognised by Polish law, and minor children (including adopted children) of the foreigner, of the spouse, or of either where dependent and under their actual parental authority. Minority is assessed at the date the application is filed (ust. 3a). |
| Family may apply at the same time | No as of 2026-04-07[1] The lit. e sponsor condition requires 2 years of prior residence on successive temporary permits, so family members cannot apply together with a first permit on this route. |
| Family members' work rights | full as of 2026-08-07[7] Art. 3 ust. 1 pkt 17 of the Act of 20 March 2025 on the conditions for the admissibility of entrusting work to foreigners: a holder of a temporary residence permit granted under art. 159 ust. 1 of the Act on Foreigners has free access to the labour market (swobodny dostęp do rynku pracy) – no work permit, no employer tie, no hours cap. |
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Verification
| Sources cited | 7 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 7 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2022-06-24 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-24 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-26 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Ustawa z dnia 12 grudnia 2013 r. o cudzoziemcach — tekst ujednolicony (Dz.U. 2025 poz. 1079)
Kancelaria Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2025-08-07 · Accessed 2026-08-23 · Amended by pl-aliens-act-amendment-2025-1794, pl-work-admissibility-act-2025 - [2] Rozporządzenie Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji z dnia 26 lipca 2022 r. w sprawie opłat pobieranych w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej od cudzoziemców za wydanie i wymianę dokumentów (Dz.U. 2022 poz. 1583)
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Urząd do Spraw Cudzoziemców — Moduł Obsługi Spraw · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-24 - [4] Rozporządzenie Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji z dnia 14 czerwca 2022 r. w sprawie obywatelstw, których posiadanie uprawnia cudzoziemców do ubiegania się o udzielenie zezwolenia na pobyt czasowy, o którym mowa w art. 186 ust. 1 pkt 9 ustawy o cudzoziemcach (Dz.U. 2022 poz. 1335)
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Kancelaria Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-23 - [7] Ustawa z dnia 20 marca 2025 r. o warunkach dopuszczalności powierzania pracy cudzoziemcom na terytorium Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej — tekst ujednolicony (Dz.U. 2025 poz. 621, 1794, z 2026 r. poz. 203, 473, 734)
Kancelaria Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2025-05-16 · Accessed 2026-08-24