{"id":1441,"date":"2026-01-22T13:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:20:29","slug":"amendment-to-the-polish-citizenship-act-new-fees-and-longer-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/amendment-to-the-polish-citizenship-act-new-fees-and-longer-deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Amendment to the Polish Citizenship Act \u2013 New Fees and Longer Deadlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ATTENTION \u2013 THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION from Polish<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An amendment to the Polish Citizenship Act came into force on August 1, 2025, introducing two significant changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, stamp duties have been increased:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recognition as a Polish citizen \u2013 PLN 1,000,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confirmation of citizenship or loss of citizenship \u2013 PLN 277,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acceptance of an application for citizenship or consent to renunciation \u2013 PLN 1,669.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, the deadline for processing cases has been extended to six months. In practice, this change will not improve the situation at the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Office, where the waiting time for a decision is currently approximately 15\u201316 months, and in other voivodeships it may even extend the current proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The changes do not address the problems associated with the excessive length of administrative proceedings in citizenship matters. Increased fees and extended deadlines may result in a reduction in the number of applications submitted and, consequently, limit access to the procedure for recognition or confirmation of Polish citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTENTION \u2013 THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION from Polish An amendment to the Polish Citizenship Act came into force on August 1, 2025, introducing two significant changes. First, stamp duties have been increased: Second, the deadline for processing cases has been extended to six months. In practice, this change will not improve the situation at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-pojedynczy-wpis-en","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polish-citizenship.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}