A state that keeps its deadlines
How long people really wait for decisions in Poland: data from all 16 voivodeship offices, the Office for Foreigners, the Interior Ministry and the courts. Every number comes with its source document. We demand decisions within the deadlines set by law.
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All news08.11.2026
Państwo na Czas: data and analysis have a new home
From 8 November 2026 the reports, the office ranking, the document archive and the CSV data live here, at panstwonaczas.eu, under the same addresses. Links to glos-migranta.eu lead here automatically. Państwo na Czas is an independent civic initiative: we check whether the state keeps its own deadlines - and we demand that it does.
All reports04.11.2026
The ledger, cassation appeals and reminders: three new reports and over 1,400 documents
Three new reports based on official letters. "The ledger": in 2025 citizens of 58 countries declared PLN 6.28 billion of income tax due in Poland and ZUS recorded PLN 23.9 billion in social contributions for foreigners, while on 1 July 2026 there were 803,223 pending cases and the average time from application to decision was 242-658 days. "The state loses and appeals": in 2026 the Pomorskie voivode filed 185 cassation appeals, Mazowieckie 110, and ten of fifteen voivodes at most one. "Do not pass on reminders": how an act and a UdSC circular disconnected the safety switch. We also updated the reports on FAMI, the state's answers and statistics; the archive now holds over 1,400 documents.
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Why we act: stop living in waiting mode
The average processing time for a legalisation case ranges from 242 days in the Małopolskie Voivodeship to 658 in the Silesian Voivodeship: from eight months to almost two years. The statutory deadline is 60 days. Data from the Ministry of the Interior and Administration itself, response to interpellation No. 18089 as of 6 July 2026.
463,487 cases concerning temporary residence and work are currently awaiting voivodes' decisions.
Article 100d has rendered ponaglenie meaningless: the Head of the Office for Foreigners is obliged to apply it and refuses. Together with the preceding Article 100c, the suspension of deadlines has lasted since April 2022 - almost five years - even though it was conceived as a temporary measure and has been extended six times.
And the state knows the provision is unlawful. Since May 2025 the Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) has refused to apply it as contrary to Article 45 of the Constitution. In a letter of 29 June 2026 the Ministry of the Interior admitted that courts most likely will not apply it either. The provision remains in force.
The queue does not clear: by our calculation, based on Foreigners' Affairs Office data, 392,353 cases accumulated beyond what the offices manage to process during 2022-2025, and the gap grows by roughly 100,000 cases a year.
We are not asking for privileges. Foreigners' contributions to ZUS amount to PLN 21.5 billion a year - 6.2% of all pension contributions in the country. Among Ukrainian citizens, 857,100 people pay contributions, while around 12,000 receive a pension or annuity. Our obligations are enforced immediately and under threat of sanctions. The state's obligations in return have been suspended for five years.
We demand the repeal of Article 100d, a return to the norms of the Code of Administrative Procedure (KPA), an increase in staffing in foreigner-affairs departments, and transparent publication of case-processing data.
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