Hi...
While Eva's case looks promising on its face, I do not think 90 days would suffice.
From others' experiences, this route is wrought with the perils of a visa overstay.
This would NOT be good! Have you considered the services of a Polish attorney?
From what I've seen as of late, Confirmation times can be as little as 6-8 months.
Welcome to the forums and do browse around: it proved to be invaluable for me
- and yes, I did successfully Confirm my Polish Citizenship. Good Luck! - Rich
PS:There are many GREAT contributors to this forum; I'm sure some will chime in.

 

vailmij,
I would recommend that one of your friends, or family members in Poland start the process for Eva there before you leave. You can give your friend a power of attorney to do it.
The birth certificate will take you about 2 - 4 weeks.
The Confirmation of Polish Citizenship will take about 2 to 6 months these days in person.
The PESEL number will be about a week at the consulate
The Passport will be about 3-4 months at the consulate.
And then there is your Dowód Osobisty which should be pretty quick, but she can only apply for that once she's re-entered the EU using her Polish Passport.

 

http://forums.immigration.com/showthrea ... highlight=

 

Yes you will need to send everything, with Apostilles, and translations. I recommend you send the originals to the relative as well. The office will not retain them, but by having the originals, the office can easily look at them, hand the, back, and take the apostilled/translated copies for their records. By letting relative have the originals, the office will believe he/she s legit more easily.

The relative in Poland should be able to find the location very easily.

One tip though, when they go into the office there are 2 sections. The first is for people applying for citizenship which is not Eva's situation. The line is long, tons of people and ruckus, and the waiting period is extreme. A little further down is the section to apply for a POŚWIADCZENIE OBYWATELSTWA. There are very few people here and nobody seems stressed. Your relative should pay attention to this once inside the building.

 

Since Ewa was not born in Poland, the application will need to be submitted to the Warsaw office. If she was born there, then it would need to be submitted to the office where she was last a resident in. (zameldowana)

I had a regular notary do it, who was also a Polish translator. The next level up is a consulate, but they will insist that they write the power of attorney, and they will charge you for it. The consulate one will be rock solid, but I had no issues with the one signed by a US Notary Public/Polish Translator, and it was faster for me to obtain, and cheaper too.

 

By the way here is the template for my power of attorney. I am sure the consulate will have their own of you take that route.

I tried to keep this as generic as possible to exclude my personal info, and so that you know where to insert your information. Use these variables to fill out your specifics in the document.

VARIABLE1: Today's day verbose (ex: czternastego)
VARIABLE2: Today's month verbose (ex: grudnia)
VARIABLE3: Today's year verbose (ex: dwa tysiące siódmego)
VARIABLE4: The date in polish format (ex: 14.XII.2007r)
VARIABLE5: Full name of Notary (ex: John Smith)
VARIABLE6: County
VARIABLE7: State (ex: Alabama)
VARIABLE8: Your full name (ex: JAN KOWALSKI)
VARIABLE9: Your father's first name in possessive form (ex: Tadeusza)
VARIABLE10: Your mother's first name in possessive form (ex: Jadwigi)
VARIABLE11: Your mother's maiden name (ex: Misiaszek)
VARIABLE12: Country from where your current passport is from (ex: USA)
VARIABLE13: Passport Number (ex. XX999999)
VARIABLE14: Your full address of residence, including country.
VARIABLE15: Your birth date in Polish date format (ex: 22.VI.1950)
VARIABLE16: Your city of birth (ex: Nowy Jork)
VARIABLE17: Your country of birth (ex: USA)
VARIABLE18: The full name of the person who your are giving the power of attorney to (ex. John Doe)
VARIABLE19: The person's Polish national ID number (ie "dowód osobisty") (ex:
VARIABLE20: The person's PESEL number
VARIABLE21: The person's full address of residence in Poland
VARIABLE22: Your signature
VARIABLE23: The name of the state where you are at the time of signing
VARIABLE24: The name of the county where you are at the time of signing
VARIABLE25: The name of the country where you are at the time of signing
VARIABLE26: Today's day (ex: 14th)
VARIABLE27: Today's month (ex: December)
VARIABLE28: Today's year (ex: 2007)
VARIABLE29: Notary's signature and STAMP



_____________________________________________________________

AKT NOTARIALNY

Dnia VARIABLE1 VARIABLE2, VARIABLE3 roku (VARIABLE4) przed notariuszem VARIABLE5 w kancelarii notarialnej w VARIABLE6, VARIABLE7 stawił się:

VARIABLE8

Pan VARIABLE8, syn VARIABLE9 i VARIABLE10 z domu VARIABLE11, legitymujący sie paszportem VARIABLE12 nr. VARIABLE13, na stałe zamieszkały pod adresem VARIABLE14.
Tożsamość stawiającego się notariusz ustalił na podstawie paszportu VARIABLE12, którego numer wpisano obok nazwiska.


PEŁNOMOCNICTWO

Ja, niżej podpisany VARIABLE8, ur. VARIABLE15 w VARIABLE16, VARIABLE17, ninieszym upoważniam VARIABLE18, legitymujący się dowodem osobistym numer VARIABLE19, PESEL VARIABLE20, zamieszkał przy VARIABLE21 do wszelkich czynności w Urzędach Stanu Cywilnego łącznie ze składaniem wniosków wszelkiego rodzaju oraz do reprezentowania mnie i działania w moim imieniu na terenie Rzeczpospolitej Polski, oraz do reprezentowania mojej osoby oraz moich interesów przed wszelkimi osobami fizycznymi, prawnymi, instytucjami państwowymi, prywatnymi, spółdzielniami jakiegokolwiek rodzaju, biurami notarialnymi, urzędami celnymi, komunikacyjnymi i innymi, przed bankami, instytucjami finansowymi, sądami, ZUS-em, PZU i Pocztą Polską na terenie Rzeczpospolitej Polskioraz do występowania w mojej osoobie łączenie ze składaniem wszelkich oświadczeń, wniosków, dokumentów i podpisów jakie okażą się niezbędne do realizacji ninieszego pełnomocnictwa.

Koszty wynikające z tego aktu ponosi pełnomocnik. Wypisy tego Aktu można wydawać również pełnomocnikowi.

Akt ten został odczytany, przyjęty i podpisany.
Podpisali: VARIABLE8 i VARIABLE5


VARIABLE22
VARIABLE8



STAN VARIABLE23
POWIAT VARIABLE24
Niniejszym zaświadczam, że powyższe oświadczenie zostało sporządzone dnia VARIABLE1 VARIABLE2 VARIABLE3 roku w VARIABLE24, VARIABLE23, VARIABLE25 i podpisane przez VARIABLE8, którego tożsamość ustaliłem na podstawie paszportu VARIABLE12 nr. VARIABLE13.



STATE OF VARIABLE23
COUNTY OF VARIABLE24
The forgoing instrument was acknowledged before me this VARIABLE26 day of VARIABLE27, VARIABLE28, by VARIABLE8.

__Personally known OR _X_Produced Identification
Type of identifiacation producted VARIABLE12 nr. VARIABLE13


VARIABLE29

 

Hello,
i saw some good answers from curious george and the forum on by rajiv khanna. I hope you all can help me.
I am trying to understand the process of confirmation of polish citizenship.
My father has his confirmation of citizenship and is a current passport holder (and votes in elections abroad). He has been married and divorced in america. Part of the paperwork requires that i show their marriage certificate. Is this necessary if my mother does not hold a polish passport (she is an american citizen)? Must i also show their divorce papers? And does this mean that all of this has to be registered under the foreign marriage certificate in poland?
My father is going to poland next month and will file the necessary paperwork in warsaw to make to process go quicker.
First, do i need to register my foreign birth certificate in warsaw? Or must i apply for confirmation of citizenship before this step? (i understand my birth certificate needs an apostille and certified translation from the embarrass - which i'm doing now).

Where is the office in warsaw that i may submit confirmation of polish citizen papers?

Thanks for your help.

 

Your parent's marriage certificate is secondary. I doubt they want to see the marriage certificate for your father is he is divorced from your Polish mother, or if your mother was never a Polish citizen. I believe the only reason they might need to see this is to help reinforce your claim that these are your parents. Some people's genetic parent's were never married, so this document does not even exist.

You can apply for the confirmation of citizenship without a Polish registration of birth however, you will need the Polish registration of birth once you try to apply for a Polish passport.

The theory is that if you register your birth BEFORE filing for confirmation of citizenship, the whole process should go a little smoother, since the Polish registration of birth clearly shows your relationship to your Polish parents and t should be a slam dunk case.

Registration of birth only takes a week or 2, waiting to register before or during the confirmation of citizenship would not save you much time.

The phone book should have the address to the office, but try this:
http://www.mazowieckie.pl/wydzialy/wydz ... emcow.html
Wydział Spraw Cudzoziemców
ul. Długa 5, 00-263 Warszawa
Kontakt: Sekretariat Wydziału Spraw Cudzoziemców – pokój nr 38
tel. (22) 695 65 75
fax. (22) 695 66 03


Remember to go into the right room....Go into the room that does this:
prowadzenie postępowań w sprawach stwierdzenia posiadania obywatelstwa polskiego,

NOT the room that does this:
prowadzenie postępowań w sprawie nabycia obywatelstwa polskiego

 

Can anyone recommend a lawyer for the process of confirmation of polish citizenship?

Thank you,
Alice