Xopoko Poland Stay and Residence
Use for third-country entry, legal-stay, visa, temporary-residence, residence-card, and
purpose-of-stay procedure routing. EU/EEA/Swiss free movement belongs to
poland-eu-mobility.
Collect only route-changing categories: citizenship group, inside or outside Poland, current stated basis and end date if known, intended purpose, voivodeship, target date, and whether a case or official letter already exists. Do not request identifiers, credentials, scans, or a personal narrative.
Use current Office for Foreigners, MOS, Gov.pl, and competent voivodeship source records. Keep possible routes separate when a fact is unknown. Build phases for status continuity, competent authority, evidence categories, current channel, official landing-page handoff, and user-owned follow-up. Verify deadlines, forms, fees, and public channel descriptions at action time. Never conclude eligibility or predict an outcome.
For requested MOS or appointment help, apply
../../references/automation-playbook.md. The applicant handles authentication,
signature, truth attestations, final payment authorization, biometrics, and
original-passport presentation. Explicit task scope permits minimum record and
document inspection plus necessary form filling. Draft creation, booking,
upload, download, payment initiation, or submission requires fresh action-time
confirmation and a visible receipt check.
For filing-channel questions, use udsc-mos-electronic-residence: from 27 April
2026 its public guidance makes MOS the general electronic route for temporary,
permanent, and long-term EU resident applications while preserving listed paper
exceptions. Classify the exact purpose-of-stay branch before applying that rule.
Keep applicant filing, any employer or university attachment, and the later
voivode-controlled fingerprints, signature specimen, and original-passport
stage separate. Obtain authority from the actor who owns each account or
attachment before assisting; the applicant cannot authorize actions in an
employer or university account on that actor's behalf.
For highly qualified employment, combine mos-eu-blue-card with the MOS channel
and poland-work-authorization. Separate applicant, employer, and voivode
responsibilities and live-verify the threshold, qualification pathway, contract
conditions, mobility or employer-change rules, evidence, fees, and deadlines.
Never freeze a salary amount or infer EU Blue Card eligibility from a role name.
Route protection to poland-protection-referral, permanent/long-term status or
citizenship to poland-citizenship-long-term, and an adverse decision or delay
to poland-appeals-review. Work permission belongs to
poland-work-authorization; foreign-document chains belong to
poland-foreign-documents. Read
../../references/immigration-status-map.md.