ul. Dywizjonu AK "Jeleń" 7B/U4, WarszawaMaximum length
3 years
there is no extension – you apply again
How you apply
Online only
through MOS, since 27 April 2026
The business test
12× average wage
or 2 employees
either one is enough – or a credible forecast
Your own conditions
Insurance, income, a home
still required for this permit – unlike the work permit
Stamp duty
PLN 340
plus PLN 100 for the residence card
How long it takes
Months, not days
the statutory 60 days is suspended in practice
On this page
What the residence permit for running a business is
The temporary residence permit for the purpose of conducting business activity – zezwolenie na pobyt czasowy w celu prowadzenia działalności gospodarczej, governed by arts. 142–143a of the Act on Foreigners – is granted to a foreigner whose purpose of stay in Poland is to conduct business under Polish law. It is granted for the period needed for that purpose, and for no longer than three years.
Three features of it decide most of what follows.
Two examinations, not one
The voivode looks at you – insurance, income, accommodation – and separately at the business: its tax result, its permanent staff or a credible plan to reach them. Most refusals we see come from the second examination, not the first.
It is about your business, not a job
If you are employed by somebody else’s company, this is the wrong permit. If you sit on the board of a company in which you hold no shares, it is also the wrong permit – that is a residence and work permit. A single share moves you from one route to the other.
There is no renewal
Nothing is “extended”. When the permit runs out you file a fresh application, and the business is examined again – this time on real figures, not on the plan you showed three years earlier.
Is this the right permit for you?
| Your situation | Where you belong |
|---|---|
| You founded, or hold shares in, a sp. z o.o. or S.A. and sit on its management board | This permit, under art. 142(3). The same applies to a prokurent who holds shares and to a general partner running a sp.k. or S.K.A. The board-member details are set out in our guide for board members and prokurents. |
| You run a sole tradership entered in CEIDG and are entitled to do so | This permit, under art. 142(1), where the business itself is your purpose of stay – typically to continue a business you already run. See the next section: a newcomer cannot open a sole tradership on this route. |
| You sit on the board of a company in which you hold no shares | Not this permit. A temporary residence and work permit under art. 126 – explained in the board members guide. |
| You are employed under a contract by a company – even your own | Usually the residence permit for work, or the EU Blue Card if the role is highly qualified. Mind the trap the other way round: a registered business of your own blocks the single-permit case from opening at all. |
| You want to invest money and live in Poland | Poland has no residence-by-investment scheme. Holding shares is investing, not conducting business; in practice a case is built on a role you actually perform in the company. |
| You already have five years of legal residence | Look at the long-term EU resident permit, which is indefinite and does not depend on the business at all. |
Turkish citizens are in a special position: art. 142(5) applies the standstill clause of the EEC–Turkey Additional Protocol to those who conduct or intend to conduct business on their own account. In some cases that means rules more favourable than those described here.
Which business form is open to you
Before the residence question there is a company-law question, and it is answered by a different statute – the Act on the rules for the participation of foreign entrepreneurs in economic life. It divides foreigners from outside the EU into two groups.
| Who you are | What you may run |
|---|---|
| Privileged foreigners – among others, holders of permanent residence or long-term EU residence; holders of certain temporary permits, including family reunification and spouse of a Polish citizen; holders of the business permit granted to continue a business already entered in CEIDG; refugees and persons with subsidiary protection, humanitarian or tolerated stay; persons with temporary protection; holders of a valid Karta Polaka; family members of EU citizens | Any form, on the same terms as Polish citizens – including a sole tradership entered in CEIDG and a general partnership. |
| Everyone else | Only a limited partnership (sp.k.), a limited joint-stock partnership (S.K.A.), a limited liability company (sp. z o.o.), a simple joint-stock company (P.S.A.) or a joint-stock company (S.A.) – and joining such companies or acquiring their shares. |
A newcomer cannot open a sole tradership and then apply. This is the point most English-language pages miss. If you are not in the privileged group, you cannot register in CEIDG at all, so the residence permit for running a business is in practice built on a company – most often a sp. z o.o. in which you hold shares and sit on the board. The sole-trader route is for people who already run a CEIDG business lawfully and need a residence basis to keep it going – after a divorce, after a protection status ends, or when another permit lapses.
Citizens of Ukraine whose stay is covered by the special Ukraine act have their own, separate rules on running a business, which have changed several times since 2022. They are not covered by this page.
What you must show about yourself
Conditions for a residence permit for running a business – the personal side
Under art. 142(1)(1)–(2) these conditions must be met cumulatively, on the day of the decision, not only on the day of filing.
| Condition | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Health insurance | Cover under the Polish public system (ZUS / NFZ), or confirmation from an insurer that your treatment costs in Poland are covered. A founder who is paid by the company or who pays contributions as a sole trader is usually already insured through ZUS. |
| A stable and regular income | Enough to support you and your dependants without recourse to social assistance. Art. 142(4) refers to the test in art. 140(2): your income must exceed the social-assistance thresholds – PLN 1,010 a month for a single person, PLN 823 per person in a family. Board remuneration, a management contract, a salary from the company or documented business income all count; what offices look for is regularity, not a single payment. |
| Secured accommodation | A place to live in Poland: a tenancy agreement, a notarial deed, a registration certificate or a statement from the owner. Unlike the residence permit for work, where this condition was repealed in 2022, it still applies here. |
| A licence, where the law requires one | If the position or the profession is regulated, the consent of the competent authority. Most businesses do not need one; some – transport, financial services, healthcare, security – certainly do. |
Two of these conditions are often reported as abolished. For this permit they are not. The 2022 reform removed the accommodation and income conditions from the residence permit for work. Pages that copy that statement across to business permits are wrong, and a file built on them arrives without two of its four personal documents.
The business test
What the company or business must show – art. 142(1)(3)
The business you run, or the company in which you hold shares, must meet one of the following. For this residence permit they are alternatives – one is enough. (The work permit for performing a function uses the same two limbs but requires both, which is why a company can pass one test and fail the other.)
| Route | What it requires |
|---|---|
| Income | In the tax year before the application, income of at least 12 times the average monthly gross wage in the voivodeship where the business has its seat or the sole trader lives – the figure published by the President of Statistics Poland (GUS) for the year before the application. |
| Employment | For at least one year before the application, at least two employees on contracts of employment for an indefinite period, full-time – Polish citizens or foreigners with free access to the labour market. |
| Forecast | Neither of the above yet, but funds or activities that will allow the business to meet them in future – in particular activities contributing to investment growth, technology transfer, beneficial innovation or job creation. This is the route of every new company, and it has its own section below. |
What the income threshold means in figures
The voivodeship averages are announced once a year. The most recent notice, of 19 November 2025, gives the figures for 2024:
| Voivodeship | Average monthly wage 2024 → 12× threshold |
|---|---|
| Mazowieckie (Warsaw) | PLN 9,488.94 → PLN 113,867.28 |
| Dolnośląskie (Wrocław) | PLN 8,359.59 → PLN 100,315.08 |
| Małopolskie (Kraków) | PLN 8,249.31 → PLN 98,991.72 |
| Pomorskie (Gdańsk) | PLN 8,066.89 → PLN 96,802.68 |
| Wielkopolskie (Poznań) | PLN 7,428.35 → PLN 89,140.20 |
The figures for 2025 are expected from GUS towards the end of 2026 and will be higher. Which year’s figure an office applies depends on the date of filing and on what had been published by then; plan with a margin above the newest figure rather than exactly on it.
Three details that decide cases
- Income is not revenue. The test uses the tax result – for a company, the income shown in its CIT-8; for a sole trader, in the PIT-36 or PIT-36L. A business with a large turnover and a small or negative tax result fails the income limb. Lump-sum taxpayers (PIT-28) report revenue rather than income, and how an office reads that is worth discussing before filing.
- The employees must be the right employees. Contracts of employment, not civil-law contracts; indefinite, not fixed-term; full-time; held for a year before filing. Two part-timers, or two people on B2B, do not count however long they have worked there.
- The arrears certificates are part of the test in practice. Offices ask for certificates from ZUS and the tax office confirming no arrears. A business with unpaid contributions starts the case on the back foot, and tax arrears of your own are a separate ground of refusal.
New businesses: the forecast route
A company set up last month has no previous tax year and no year of employment. The law deals with this through a forecast: the permit may be granted where the business shows that its funds or its activities will allow it to meet the income or employment condition in future. This is the route on which applications are most often won or lost, because the office is assessing a prediction – and it needs evidence, not adjectives.
Evidence that tends to persuade
- Share capital actually paid in, and bank statements showing funds available to the business
- Invoices for equipment, fit-out and stock already bought
- Signed contracts and orders from clients, and agreements with suppliers
- A lease of real business premises
- Employment contracts already concluded, with ZUS registration
- A business plan whose numbers lead to the statutory thresholds, and are consistent with all of the above
What tends to fail
- A business plan with nothing documented behind it
- Projections that never reach 12× the voivodeship average or two full-time staff
- A virtual office, no staff, no contracts and no turnover
- Share capital of PLN 5,000 and nothing else
- Inconsistencies between the plan, the balance sheet and the CIT-8
- A company whose only visible activity is its founder’s immigration case
Genuineness is examined, not presumed. Offices are alert to companies set up chiefly to obtain residence, and a permit obtained on a forecast is examined again at the next application – on actual figures. A forecast route works when the business is real and simply young; it does not work as a formality, and it is not worth presenting it as one.
Documents the office will expect
Everything is attached electronically to the MOS application: a scan of every page of your passport, a digital photograph and proof of payment of the stamp duty and the card fee. Beyond that, the file depends on the form of your business. Offices differ at the margins; this is the core.
Company (sp. z o.o., S.A., sp.k., S.K.A.)
- Articles of association, or the founding deed, and the KRS extract
- Evidence of your shareholding and of your function – the resolution appointing you to the board, granting the prokura, or the partnership agreement
- Your contract, or the shareholders’ resolution on board remuneration
- CIT-8 for the previous tax year, with proof of filing
- Certificates of no arrears from ZUS and the tax office
- Relying on employment: the employment contracts and ZUS declarations for the year
- Relying on a forecast: business plan, balance sheet, profit and loss account, contracts, invoices, lease
Sole tradership (CEIDG)
- The CEIDG entry, and evidence of your entitlement to run a sole tradership
- PIT-36 / PIT-36L or PIT-28 for the previous tax year, with proof of filing
- Certificates of no arrears from ZUS and the tax office
- Evidence of the income or employment condition – or of the forecast
- Evidence of a stable and regular income for you and your family
For both
- Health insurance: a ZUS certificate or a private policy covering treatment in Poland
- Title to accommodation: a lease, a deed, a registration certificate or the owner’s statement
- Sworn translations of every foreign-language document
- A power of attorney, with its own stamp duty, where you are represented
Certificates from ZUS and the tax office have short shelf lives, and the conditions must still be met on the date of the decision. In a procedure that takes months, expect to supply fresh ones.
Filing since 27 April 2026 – online, and in person
Since 27 April 2026 every application for a temporary residence permit, including this one, is filed electronically through the MOS portal. An application filed on paper is left without consideration – not refused, not read – and the date of posting no longer protects anything. Only a completed electronic submission does.
You press submit – we build what goes into it
The application is sent from your own MOS account, under your own signature. Neither the company nor an attorney can do that step for you, and it takes minutes. Everything that decides the outcome sits on either side of it: the file, the business evidence, and the procedure afterwards.
You need a trusted profile first
A MOS account needs a Polish Profil Zaufany (or a qualified or personal electronic signature), and in practice a PESEL number comes first. For a founder who has just arrived that is a step with its own queue. Start early.
You must be in Poland, on a legal stay
The application is filed from Poland, no later than the last day of your legal stay. An application from abroad is not admissible. Filed in time, it makes your stay lawful until the decision becomes final.
Appeals go outside the portal
MOS does not chase you about requests, and an appeal is not filed through it. Both have to be diarised and handled the traditional way. We have seen deadlines lost on the assumption that the portal handles the whole life of the case.
Filing online has not made the procedure paperless at the human end. After submission the voivode summons you to give fingerprints and a specimen signature and to show your original passport. The passport stamp is gone: you download an electronic certificate of submission instead, and the Border Guard is notified electronically.
The residence permit for running a business, step by step
Choose the route and test the business
Art. 142(1), art. 142(3) or art. 126; and income, employment or forecast. This is done on the actual CIT-8 and ZUS records before anything is filed, because the choice cannot be repaired afterwards.
Assemble the file
Your own evidence – insurance, income, accommodation – and the business evidence. The arrears certificates alone can take a fortnight, and sworn translations longer.
File through MOS, personally
Before the last day of your legal stay, with the stamp duty and the card fee paid to their separate accounts. Download the official confirmation of receipt (UPO) and the certificate of submission and keep both.
Attend for biometrics
On the voivode’s summons: fingerprints, a specimen signature and the original passport. If you do not attend, the proceedings are discontinued.
Answer what the office asks
Requests for further documents on the business are routine, each on a deadline of at least 14 days. A missed request does not just delay the case – it can end it.
Decision
Under art. 142(3) the decision states the validity period, the company and the position (art. 143a). That is what you may lawfully do; a different company or function needs its own basis.
Residence card
Issued after a positive decision, for PLN 100. It is the document that evidences your status; the permit is the decision behind it.
How long it really takes
The statute says 60 days
Sixty days before the voivode, ninety days before the Head of the Office for Foreigners on appeal, counted from a complete application with the required documents.
But the clock is suspended
The running of the deadlines in residence cases before voivodes is suspended – currently until early March 2027 – under a provision of the 2022 Ukraine assistance act, repeatedly extended. Cases are still processed; what is removed is the office’s exposure to a complaint about delay.
And the real figure is months
Several months is normal; in the busiest voivodeships a year is not unusual. A business case adds a further variable: an office that is not persuaded by the business evidence will ask for more of it, and each round adds weeks.
There is an argument about that suspension. The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Poznań has held, in more than one case, that as a Ukraine-specific measure it reaches only Ukrainian citizens and persons under temporary protection. Offices apply it to everybody, and we have found no Supreme Administrative Court ruling settling the point. It is a contested position, not a settled one – but where a case has been sitting for a year it is a real argument, alongside a formal reminder (ponaglenie) and a complaint to the court.
The planning consequence is simple: file early. Your stay is protected from the day of filing, so filing three months before your current title expires costs nothing, while filing on the last day leaves no room for a missing document.
Legal stay is not the right to work
The certificate of submission legalises your stay. It does not, by itself, authorise you to work. Managing a company – sitting on its board, acting as prokurent, running a limited partnership – is treated as work under the Act of 20 March 2025. Until the decision, you need a separate basis for performing the function: a work permit for performing a function, or the exemption for those who spend no more than six months in any twelve in Poland.
Once granted, a permit under art. 142(3) covers the function named in the decision – in that company, in that position. It does not cover work for anybody else. A job with another employer, or a board seat in a second company, needs its own legal basis, assessed on its own terms. The detailed rules on the work permit for a function and the six-month exemption are in our guide for board members and prokurents.
For a founder this has a practical edge. The temptation is to start trading, signing and hiring the day the application goes in. Doing so without a work basis exposes you, and the company, to fines – and an inspection finding is exactly the kind of thing that surfaces in the next residence case.
Coming from abroad
This permit is applied for inside Poland. If you are not yet here, the first step is a lawful entry: visa-free travel where your nationality allows it, a Schengen visa, or a national (type D) visa issued by a Polish consul for the purpose of your stay. Consuls examine a business purpose closely, and the documents they want overlap heavily with what the voivode will later ask for – so it is worth building the file once.
Poland. Business Harbour is closed
New applications for PBH visas have not been accepted since 26 January 2024. Visas already issued keep their effect, but anyone offering a “PBH route” today is describing a scheme that is suspended.
Visa-free time runs out fast
Visa-free or Schengen stays are limited to 90 days in 180. Setting up a company, opening a bank account, obtaining a PESEL and a trusted profile, and assembling the business file all have to fit inside that window, with the application filed before it closes.
Some entry titles block the case
A permanent or long-term EU residence permit, a Schengen visa authorising entry only, certain protection-related statuses and being outside Poland all lead to a refusal to initiate the proceedings. That is checked before anything else.
After the decision: duties and changes
The 15-working-day duty
If the reason for which the permit was granted ceases – you leave the board, sell your shares, close the business – you must notify the voivode within 15 working days (art. 113). The end of the purpose is also a ground for withdrawing the permit, so plan the next basis before you resign or sell.
A new company means a new permit
Under art. 142(3) the decision names the company and the position. Moving to a different company, or adding a function elsewhere, needs its own legal basis.
Renewal is a new case
Apply for the next permit during your legal stay, well before the current one expires. Expect the business to be tested again on current figures – a forecast that was accepted three years ago will now be compared with what actually happened.
Where it leads
Years on this permit count towards the long-term EU resident permit and, in time, Polish citizenship, provided the other conditions are met. Your spouse and children can join you through family reunification.
Refusal, withdrawal and appeal
The most common grounds of refusal
Grounds about you
Not meeting the conditions for the declared purpose; an entry in the register of undesirable foreigners or an SIS alert; defence, security or public order; false data, forged documents or concealment of the truth; tax arrears; unpaid costs of an earlier return decision; an application filed during unlawful stay.
Grounds about the business
The business fails the income, employment and forecast tests; it is not genuinely operating; under art. 142(3), an annual limit set by regulation has been reached (art. 143(1)) or the company-side grounds of art. 117 apply, including certain convictions of the entity. In our experience this is the largest group.
Not a refusal at all
A refusal to initiate the proceedings, for the reasons in the previous section, and an application left without consideration – filed on paper, or with defects not cured in time. Neither is a decision on the merits, and the response to each is procedural.
A granted permit can also be withdrawn – where the purpose of stay ceases, where the business stops operating, or where the application rested on false information. Withdrawal proceedings are adversarial and defensible; they are not a formality.
The appeal route
An appeal lies to the Head of the Office for Foreigners, lodged through the voivode who issued the decision, within 14 days of service – outside the MOS portal. From there, a complaint to the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw within 30 days of service of the final decision, and a cassation appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court. A pending appeal keeps your stay lawful, because the decision has not become final. Business refusals are often won on appeal by evidence the first file lacked – which is a reason to appeal properly, and in time.
Official fees for a residence permit for running a business
These are the official charges, not our fees. The stamp duty and the card fee go to different accounts – a surprisingly common reason for a file being treated as incomplete.
| What | Amount |
|---|---|
| Stamp duty – temporary residence permit for business | PLN 340 (not refunded if the permit is refused) |
| Residence card – issue | PLN 100 |
| Residence card – replacement after loss or damage (first / repeat) | PLN 200 / 300 |
| Power of attorney | PLN 17 |
| Work permit for performing a function – up to / over 3 months | PLN 200 / 400 (where needed while the case is pending) |
What other pages still get wrong
The rules around this permit changed in 2022, in June 2025 and again in April 2026, and much of what is published stopped at one of those dates – or was copied from pages about a different permit.
| Still commonly said | The position now |
|---|---|
| “Register a sole tradership, then apply for the permit.” | Only privileged foreigners may register in CEIDG. Everyone else must use a company. |
| “Poland offers an investor visa.” | It does not. There is no residence-by-investment route; the permit rests on a business you actually run. |
| “Accommodation and income are no longer required.” | That is the residence permit for work. For this permit both conditions still apply. |
| “The company needs revenue of 12 times the average wage.” | Income – the tax result – not revenue. And the reference is the voivodeship average, not the national one. |
| “You need the income and two employees.” | For this permit, either one is enough – or a credible forecast. Both are needed for the work permit for a function. |
| “Any board member can get this permit.” | Only one who founded the company or holds shares. A board member without shares needs a residence and work permit. |
| “File in person or by post; you get a stamp.” | Electronic filing only since 27 April 2026, and an electronic certificate instead of the stamp. |
| “Your lawyer can file it for you.” | Not the submission itself. You sign and send it from your own MOS account; we prepare everything else. |
| “Once you have filed, you can run the company.” | Filing legalises your stay, not your work. Managing the company needs its own basis until the decision. |
| “Apply for a Poland. Business Harbour visa.” | Suspended for new applications since 26 January 2024. |
| “The voivode must decide within 60 days.” | True on paper; the running of that deadline is suspended until early March 2027. |
| “The permit can be extended.” | It cannot. A fresh application, with the business examined again. |
Where this page is uncertain, it says so: how far the suspension of deadlines validly reaches non-Ukrainian applicants, and how offices treat lump-sum taxpayers on the income limb, are matters on which we give an assessment and a reason rather than a false certainty.
How our lawyers help with a residence permit for running a business
KRASUSKI Legal has handled several thousand immigration matters since 2014, acting both for foreigners and for the companies they run or work for. On a business permit most of the work happens before anything is filed: choosing the right route, reading the company’s actual tax and payroll records against the statutory test, and turning a young business into evidence an office can accept.
Before you file
- Choosing between art. 142(1), art. 142(3), art. 126 and the other routes
- Testing the business on its CIT-8 or PIT and ZUS records
- Building the forecast file for a new company
- Timing the filing against your visa or current permit
Through the procedure
- Preparing the whole file for you to submit through MOS
- Answering the voivode’s requests within time
- Keeping a work basis for the function while the case runs
- Pressing the office where a case has stopped moving
When it goes wrong
- Appeals to the Head of the Office for Foreigners
- Proceedings before the administrative courts
- Refusals to initiate and applications left without consideration
- Defending the permit against withdrawal
Afterwards
- The 15-working-day notifications and changes of function
- The next application, on real figures
- Family members’ applications, kept in step with yours
- The route onward to permanent residence, long-term EU residence and Polish citizenship
Setting up in Poland, or already trading?
Tell us what you hold today – visa or permit, company or tradership, last year’s figures – and we will tell you which route fits, whether the business passes the test, and what the file will need. If you have already filed and nothing is happening, that conversation is worth having too.
Ask us about your case → Our feesFrequently asked questions
Can I open a sole tradership and get a residence permit on it?+
Only if you already belong to the group of foreigners allowed to run a business on the same terms as Poles – for example as a holder of permanent residence, of certain temporary permits or of a Karta Polaka. Everyone else may run a business in Poland only through a company such as a sp. z o.o. The sole-trader version of this permit is mainly for continuing a CEIDG business you already run lawfully.
I hold shares but I am not on the board. Is that enough?+
Rarely on its own. Holding shares is investing; the permit is for conducting business. In practice the case is built on a role you actually perform – most often a seat on the management board, a prokura, or running a limited partnership as general partner. The statute sets no minimum shareholding for that route.
Our company was set up recently. Can I still apply?+
Yes, through the forecast route: the company must show funds or activities – investment, technology transfer, innovation, job creation – that will allow it to reach the income or employment condition in future. Expect to prove it with paid-in capital, contracts, invoices, premises and staff, not with a business plan alone.
What counts as income for the 12-times test?+
The tax result for the previous tax year, as shown in the CIT-8 for a company or the PIT return for a sole trader – not turnover. The reference figure is the average monthly gross wage in the voivodeship where the business has its seat, as published by Statistics Poland, multiplied by twelve.
Do I really need a rental contract and proof of income?+
Yes. Those two conditions were removed from the residence permit for work in 2022, but not from this permit. You need secured accommodation in Poland and a stable and regular income above the social-assistance thresholds – currently PLN 1,010 a month for a single person and PLN 823 per person in a family.
Can I manage the company while my application is pending?+
Filing makes your stay lawful until the decision is final; it does not by itself authorise you to perform the function. Until the decision you need another basis – a work permit for performing a function, or the exemption for those who spend no more than six months in any twelve in Poland.
How does working with a lawyer fit with filing online?+
Since 27 April 2026 the application is sent from your own MOS account, under your own signature – that step belongs to you and takes minutes. Everything around it is ours: choosing the route, testing the business, building the file, checking every entry before it goes, answering the office’s requests and handling the appeal if it comes to that.
Can I take another job while I hold this permit?+
Not on the strength of this permit. A permit granted to a board member names the company and the position, and covers that function only. Work for anybody else needs its own legal basis, such as a work permit or another residence title.
Can my family join me?+
Yes. Your spouse and minor children can apply for a residence permit for family reunification on the basis of your permit, provided the conditions of that permit – including income and accommodation – are met. It is sensible to plan the two applications together.
What happens when the three years run out?+
You apply again, from the beginning, before your current permit expires – there is no extension. The business is tested again on current figures. If by then you have five years of legal residence, the long-term EU resident permit, which is indefinite and does not depend on the business, may be the better application.
Your attorney
Konrad Krasuski – Attorney-at-law
Konrad founded KRASUSKI Legal in 2014 and advises foreign founders, shareholders and the companies they run: which residence route fits, whether the business passes the statutory test, how to build a forecast file for a young company, and what to do after a refusal. If you are setting up in Poland, the cheapest moment to ask is before the company is registered.
Warsaw: +48 502 115 589 Wrocław: +48 71 719 59 08
office@krasuski.legal
Related guides
Legal status as of October 2026. This article is general information and does not constitute legal advice in an individual case. Whether you and your business satisfy the conditions for a residence permit for running a business depends on your documents and the company’s records, and can only be assessed on them.
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