Marriage in Poland

The marriage route needs a marriage, and a partnership or cohabitation does not count. Look at our skilled migration route, or at ancestry and diaspora if you have Polish family.

Both the spouse's residence permit and the citizenship provision require a marriage. A foreign registered partnership is outside them, and Poland has no partnership law of its own: a bill passed both houses in mid-2026 and was vetoed by the President in July 2026.

If you marry, the clock starts at the wedding: three years of marriage and two years of permanent residence in Poland before citizenship, in practice four to five years in the country.

Skilled migration is the ordinary way to build up to permanent residence and then citizenship on your own account.

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