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[freudling1000]

Lots of stuff flying around about work permits for non-EU citizens. I am not in Europe and not a TEFL teacher, but I do have to travel to Poland (back and forth) for business. So I have an interest in this topic.

I spoke to a Canadian friend who has been in Warsaw for some-time. He is quite familiar with the laws on these issues.

non-EU citizens: YOU STILL NEED A WORK PERMIT.

You don't if you are a 1) Foreigner, Native Language Teacher 2) teaching at a University of college. This means if you want to teach at a private school, which most everyone does, you STILL NEED A WORK PERMIT.

I am looking to get a multiple-entry, long-term visa.

If you teach at a Uni or college, you still need a long-term visa, or else you will have to leave every 3 months and come back (risk). By law, you are only allowed to stay 90 days at a time per 6 months. I was told this by the Polish Consolute in Canada a few days ago.

So you still need to have a visa to stay long-term or a work permit teach at a private school.

How to get a work permit? Perhaps somebody wants to tersely lay that out. As for a long-term, multiple-entry visa, you need to get sponsored by someone in Poland and obtain it BEFORE you leave your home country, although, "It may be possible to obtain the long-term, multiple-entry visa while in Poland." Your friend or family member has to go to the immigration office in Poland and obtain the application to sponsor you. They fill it out and give it back. Shouldn't be too much hassle to get your long-term, multiple entry visa. Except, you might have to get this in your home country.

[Alex Shulgin]

[freudling1000]

I can't read Polish. Also, even if you don't need a work permit, which I am still not convinced, YOU CAN ONLY STAY FOR 90 DAYS PER A 6 MONTH PERIOD. YOU STILL NEED A LONG-TERM VISA.

[Grrrmachine]

Can we just delete this thread, seeing as the original post was so inaccurate?

[freudling1000]

The point is to make it accurate. What can you contribute?

[Alex Shulgin]

[freudling1000]

Does this mean you can stay on your non-EU passport longer than 90 days within a 6 month period blueteeth?

[Pollux]

Why don't you just ask your well-informed Canadian friend?

[freudling1000]

Honestly, blueteeth is more reliable.

[Alex Shulgin]

[redsoxfan]

This all seems a bit odd. The Polish authorities require absurd amounts of paperwork for everything, and we are to believe that they require no documentation or anything indicating someone is a foreign language teacher with the right to reside here? Does one show a copy of a work contract to the border guards? Do you just tell them, "Oh don't worry about me, I'm a teacher"? Surely it must be stamped by a Notariusz, etc. Or does one still need a karta pobytu? I think the latter is the case. If that's true, you still need to be hired somewhere, and then go through the hoops to get the right to reside here. I suppose the only real advantage is that one could find a job in Poland and not have to return to his country to get a work permit, because it's possible to get a KP here, but not a work permit.

[Alex Shulgin]

[cezarek]

Even EU foreigners need a Karta Pobytu. The only exception is if they are on the management board of a company and leave Poland at least every two weeks. This could be hard to prove or disprove, because EU passport-holders don't always get a stamp at the EU border.

The advantage of this is that your tax only needs to be witheld at 30% throughout the year. the disadvantage is that you can get a whopping bill at the end. The truly prudent would put the money in a high-interest accout and withdraw it at the end of the tax year.

[freudling1000]

What exactly do non-EU and EU citizens have to do to legally work in Poland? ...office contact, paperwork, where the paperwork needs to be completed, no "I think you have to..."

If you want a long-term, multiple entry, get it at your local Polish consulate before you leave for poland. As for working, no idea, still, how to go about that.

[redsoxfan]

Alex wrote: