Poland citizenship: required documents
The documents you'll gather for Poland citizenship by descent, by route and by ancestor. Your exact list is generated from your lineage in the wizard.
Masovian Voivode Confirmation
Potwierdzenie Posiadania Obywatelstwa Polskiego (Confirmation of Holding Polish Citizenship) — the standard process for overseas Poles, submitted through the Polish consulate and decided by the Masovian Voivode in Warsaw.
You
- •Your Birth Certificate (Long-Form)
- •Current US Passport — Certified Copy
- •Application for Confirmation of Polish Citizenship (Wniosek)
- •Application Fee — $118 USD (gov.pl item 2.03)
- •Citizenship Lineage Statement
- •Your Marriage Certificate (if applicable) — if_married
- •Divorce Decree (if applicable) — if_divorced
Each ancestor in the chain
- •Birth Certificate
- •Death Certificate (if applicable) — if_deceased
- •Naturalization Certificate (US Certificate of Naturalization) (if applicable)
- •Adoption Order (if applicable) — if_adopted
- •Name Discrepancy / Spelling Variation Statement (if applicable)
- •Marriage Certificate (if applicable) — if_married
- •Divorce Decree (if applicable) — if_divorced
Your qualifying ancestor
- •Polish Birth Record (Metryka Urodzenia / USC Akta Urodzenia)
- •US Immigration / Passenger Manifest (if applicable)
- •Marriage Certificate (if applicable) — if_married
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