Poland in India

At one of the Visa Application Centres (VAC).

For information:
Call +91 22 67866078 between 09:00 - 17:00 hours Monday-Friday
Email: info.polandin@vfshelpline.com 

Embassy of the Republic of Poland in New Delhi accepts visa applications from citizens (or residents) of:
•    India residing in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi (NCR), Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal,
•    Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka.

Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Mumbai accepts visa applications from citizens (or residents) of:
•    India who are residing in Andhra Pradesh, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa, Gujarat.

The application should be submitted personally at one of the VACs.

Diplomatic missions do not accept application forms sent via fax, regular mail or e-mail.

The application for a work visa is registered through the e-consulate. Dates for appointment to submit visa application at the selected VAC will be assigned via an electronic draw - details below:

1. Enter and save your preliminary visa application. You will receive a request to confirm the application to the e-mail address provided. You have to confirm it within 48 hours.
2. After confirming the initial application, your data will be checked and you will be informed about the verification result. Positive verification entitles you to complete a full visa application within the next 48 hours. If the application is not completed within this time, your reservation will be canceled and your data will be deleted from the system.
3. If there are more correctly verified applications for a given consulate than available visit dates in a given period, the date of appointment will be assigned via an electronic draw.
4. After your application has been drawn, you will receive confirmation of the date of your visit to the e-mail address provided. Complete the online visa application via the VFS website and submit your visa application at the selected VAC on the assigned date. The remaining applications will take part in subsequent draws until they are drawn or until the expiry of the document entitling you to work in Poland.

Remember:
- the data entered in the application must be the same as the data in the documents you have,
- employees of consular offices have no possibility of intervening in the process of drawing appointments.

Information about the appropriate consular district can be found in the "Where can you settle your matter?" tab. In the case of Indian citizens, the consular district is determined based on the data from the passport: place of issue of the document or place of residence. Applications from outside the consular district will not be accepted.

Checklist of documents required for national visa for work is published below in the part "Materials".

A national visa applicant shall personally submit a document confirming the possession of Travel Medical Insurance, referred to in Article 25 (1) (2) (a) of the Act of 12 December 2013 on Foreigners  or a document confirming the possession of health insurance as per the definition of the Act of 27 August 2004 on Health care services financed from public funds. Travel medical insurance with an insurance amount of no less than EUR 30,000 must be valid for the period of the intended stay of the foreigner on the territory of the Republic of Poland, cover all expenses that may occur during the stay in Poland due to the necessity of return travel for medical reasons, the need for urgent medical assistance, emergency hospital treatment or death, in which the insurer undertakes to cover the costs of healthcare services provided to the insured directly to the entity providing such benefits, on the basis of a bill issued by this entity.

More information can be found on the website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the link: Information of the Minister of Foreign Affairs about insurers and insurance which meet the necessary conditions referred to in Article 25 (1) (2) (a) and Article 25 (1b) of the Act of 12 December 2013 on Foreigners.

Please visit consular fees table.

In case of submitting visa application in VAC, please visit VFS website.

The visa application fee is non-returnable, whatever the consul's decision. 

The decision on the issue of a visa is made within 15 days. If the documents need to be examined in more detail, the consideration period may be extended to 30 days.

Passports submitted through VFS can be collected at the appropriate VFS center.

You may appeal against consul’s decision within 14 days from the date of collecting the passport. For that you must submit your passport, an appeal letter and make new visa fee payment. 

For applications submitted through VFS, the applications for reconsideration of consul's visa decision can be submitted at the appropriate VFS center.