Poland in Iceland

You can apply for a temporary passport in any Polish consular office. Please note that you apply for and collect your new temporary passport in the same office.

You must apply for your temporary passport personally.

You can book your appointment to apply for a temporary passport via the e-konsulat.

IMPORTANT! You no longer need to fill out the passport application in paper. Your passport application will be filed electronically during your visit in a consular office. A consular officer will file your application using an electronic form. You will just need to confirm all your data are correct and sign your application on a dedicated device (signature pad).

• A colour biometric photograph – read what the photo should look like. Filing the photograph together with the application is mandatory. You cannot replace the photograph or send it later. If no photograph is attached to your application or the photograph does not comply with requirements, we will notify you that your passport application will have been rejected.
• A valid passport / temporary passport or a valid identity card (if issued) confirming your identity and Polish citizenship.

IMPORTANT! If you apply for a temporary passport and there are justified doubts as to your identity, citizenship or other details required to file a passport application, the consul may ask you to submit additional necessary documents.

• Bring an abridged or unabridged copy of your Polish birth certificate if you do not have the PESEL number.
• Bring an abridged or unabridged copy of your Polish marriage certificate if you do not have the PESEL number and you got married. This document must be submitted by both men and women, whether they have changed their names upon marriage or not.
• If your surname has changed when you married abroad – bring an abridged or unabridged Polish marriage certificate.

We may ask you to submit additional documents if we cannot establish your identity and / or citizenship based on the data in documents presented or the data available to us in our records and registers, or if the data are unclear or inconsistent:

• an abridged or unabridged copy of your Polish birth certificate,
• an abridged or unabridged copy of your Polish marriage certificate,
• a decision of the province governor confirming your Polish citizenship,
• a valid foreign identity document.

IMPORTANT! Take your current passport / temporary passport with you when you apply, even if it has expired.

Fee for a temporary passport issued for the delivery time of the biometric passport is 2 261 ISK.
Fee for a temporary passport issued for other purpose than to cover the biometric passport delivery time is 6028 ISK.
The fees must be paid at the office counter when submitting the application. 
Accepted forms of payment: card.

You will receive the temporary passport as soon as possible.

Please note, if you are planning to travel abroad with the temporary passport, check current rules of entry and stay of foreigners in the country of destination. Make sure that you can cross the border with the temporary passport and check the required validity period at entry and departure.

You will collect your child's passport personally in the same office where you have submitted the application. One parent (legal guardian) can do it.

On the collection day of the new document bring the previous passport / temporary passport of your child to the consular office. It will be voided (except for pages with valid visas) and returned to you.

IMPORTANT! In justified cases, especially if the travel to the consular office is particularly difficult, the consul may waive the requirement of collecting the passport in person. Discuss this when you file the passport application.​​​ Remember that you will have to submit a reasoned written request to the consul (a special form is available at a consular office) and pay the postage. The consul will send the new passport to the indicated address via postal or messenger service operator, ensuring the security of the document if possible.

The consul will void your child's current passport / temporary passport before the new one is sent to you.

IMPORTANT! If during the passport visit you have chosen the new passport to be posted to you and you still have the current document of your child with you, and you know that his / her new passport is ready to be collected, please send your child's current document to the consul as it has to be voided. The consul will then return the voided document together with the new one.

IMPORTANT! We will not send passports to citizens staying in Poland. It is also not possible to send passports issued by a domestic authority (province governor) to a person staying abroad.

If the consul rejects your application for a temporary passport, you can appeal to the minister for internal affairs through the consul.

The consul refuses to issue a passport at the request of:

• the court which proceeds against the applicant with criminal or civil proceedings or with an action related to a tax offence or a minor;
• the authority which proceeds against the applicant with  preliminary or execution proceedings in a criminal action including tax-related offences.

Can I get a temporary passport?

A temporary passport is issued only under specific circunstances. It can be obtained by individuals who:

• stay in Poland and abroad temporarily and need to return to their place of permanent residence,
• stay abroad, as they wait for the delivery of a passport issued in Poland (if they express such wish and apply for such document), 
• stay in Poland and abroad, in urgent cases of a family member's illness or funeral of which they need to provide evidence,
• stay in Poland and abroad, in urgent cases related to their professional activities of which they need to provide evidence,
• cannot have their fingerprints taken physically, and the impediment is temporary.

Can I apply for a temporary passport if I lost my personal ID card and my new 10-year passport is waiting to be collected in Poland?

You can apply for a temporary passport at a consulate. Remember to take with you the temporary passport issued by the consul as you return to Poland to collect the new one.
  
I lost my passport. What should I do now?

If you lost your passport or temporary passport, you must immediately inform the passport authority - the authority abroad is the consul.
On the day when you inform the consulate about the loss of passport, it becomes invalid. 
Important! If you find the passport which you had reported lost in the consulate, you should immediately return it to the passport authority (to the consul, if you are abroad).