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With which kind of visa can one enter Poland?

Tuesday, 29 December 2009 18:04

Schengen countries grant 2 kinds of visas: harmonized (entitling its owner to enter and stay on Schengen territory) and national (entitling its owner to a long-term stay on the area of a given Schengen territory country)

Harmonized visas	Short-term visas (Schengen): Maximum time of stay in Poland – 90 days during a 180-day time period from the day of one’s first entry to Poland
-> airport visa (A) – it is valid only for the people traveling by plane, it does not enable its owner to leave the transit area of the airport. -> transit visa (B) – it enables one’s transit through the Schengen territory, which does not last longer than 5 days -> short-term visa (C) – it enables one to stay on the Schengen territory for not more than 90 days during 180 days period
National visas	Long-term visas (national): Up until one year of the validity period of one’s visa. The period of a visa validity can last 5 years.
-> national visas (D) – they enable one’s stay on the territory of a given Schengen country (i.e. Poland) during the period of not longer than 365 days -> visas (C+D) – enable one’s stay on the territory of a given Schengen country (i.e. Poland) during the period of not longer than 365 days in a period not longer than 365 days, as well as the stay in other countries of the Schengen territory for not longer than 90 days during not more than 365 days (just as on the basis of a harmonized visa)

Type C and D visas may authorize a person to one, two or an unlimited number of entries during the stay period, specified in a visa by a number of days.

ATTENTION! D-type visas are given in order to enable one to stay on the territory of a given Schengen country, but not to migrate between particular countries.

Long-term national visas enable their owners a visa-free, one-way, less than five days long transit through the territories of other Schengen area countries. For example, if a Russian citizen received in RP consulate a type-D visa, he can visit Poland, i.e. by car, from St. Petersburg, through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, but he will have to take a direct flight back, i.e. from Warsaw to St. Petersburg.

In order to avoid problems while other transits from a country of origin to Poland, it is worth obtaining a residence permit for a fixed time, on the territory of Poland, or apply for multiple transit visas in consular departments of Schengen countries on the territory of Poland. It is not possible to issue a transit visa for a foreigner who declares a transit through Poland’s territory, aiming to get to the territory of another Schengen country. However, if, for example, an Ukrainian citizen applies for a transit visa to the Kaliningrad District, he is fully justified to obtain one.

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