Biometrics, and when the 60-day clock actually starts
Poland's 60-day residence term does not start when you file in MOS. It starts on the last of three events, and the fingerprint appointment is usually it.
The long stay in Warsaw, decided
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Poland's 60-day residence term does not start when you file in MOS. It starts on the last of three events, and the fingerprint appointment is usually it.
The Mazowieckie office in Warsaw works a karta pobytu file in a fixed order: timeliness, formal defects, then substance. That tells you what to fix first.
Since 27 April 2026 a Polish residence application is filed only in MOS. What the portal asks for, in what order, and the two steps that are not in it.