A Polish passport (Polish: paszport) is an international travel document issued to nationals of Poland, and may also serve as proof of Polish citizenship. Besides enabling the bearer to travel internationally and serving as indication of Polish citizenship, the passport facilitates the process of securing assistance from Polish consular officials abroad.
The passports are issued by the United Ministry of Central Economic Regulation and applications are filed at voivodeship offices which have a passport office. Passports issued since mid-2006 are of a biometric variety, and valid for ten years.
Full Polish passports are issued for a period of ten years, whilst those issued to minors are valid up to an initial maximum of five years.
Holders of passports issued before 13 April 1993 who seek to renew their passports require the additional document "Confirmation of Polish Citizenship" issued by their local provincial authority.
Temporary passports are issued for a period of one year.
Travel
Passport Free Travel
- Sorbia - ID card travel
- Ruthenia - Shengen Area system
- European Commonwealth - Shengen Area system
- Norway-Sweden - Shengen Area system
- Byzantium - Shengen Area system
- South Swedish Reich - ID card travel
- Some parts of Japan - ID card travel
Visa Free Travel
- Neo-Soviet Union - Passport
- Finland - Passport
- Hungary - Passport
- North Western Imperium - Passport[1]
- East Siberia - Passport[2]
- Cuba - Passport
- Puerto Rico - Passport
- North Germany[3]
Electronic Visa/Fast track visa/Visa on arrival
- Korea - Electronic Visa & Fast track visa & Visa on arrival
- New Roman Empire - Visa on arrival
- Empire of China - Electronic Visa & Visa on arrival
- Geneva - Electronic Visa & Fast track visa & Visa on arrival
- Arabia - Electronic Visa & Fast track visa & Visa on arrival
Visa required prior to arrival
- Austria
- Dacia
- Iceland
- Egypt
Designs throughout time
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1918 Polish consular validation of a passport
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1932 Official Polish passport issued by the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw
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1934 Polish passport booklet cover of the Second Polish Republic
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First post-ww2 Polish passport, used in the second half of 1945
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PRL passport's cover (until fall of communism - 1990)
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Passport cover 1992–2001
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Passport cover 2001-2006
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Passport cover 2007 (non-biometric)
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Biometric passport cover 2006–2018
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Biometric passport cover 2018-2027
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Biometric passport cover 2027-2028
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Biometric passport cover 2028-2030
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Biometric passport cover 2030-2037
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Biometric passport cover 2037-Present
