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International driving licence

Are you going abroad to a country that is not a EU member state? Do you want to have the possibility of driving there? Get an international driving licence. Check how to do it.

What is an international driving licence?

It is a copy of a Polish document translated into a number of languages in the form of a booklet, in a passport-like format. An international driving licence is not an independent document, so it must be shown along with the Polish driving licence. Therefore, everyone who has a valid Polish document may receive an international driving licence without having to pass additional examinations!

This means that you may drive vehicles outside the European Union (EU) in countries that are parties to the Vienna or Geneva Convention.

Place of submission of documents/settlement of the case:
Citizens Affairs Department
Driver Licence Sub-department
ul. G. Zapolskiej 4
fax +48 71 777 76 00

Information: phone + 48 71 777 77 77

COM I
ul. G. Zapolskiej 4
Room S1, Counters 1, 2, 3
opening hours: 08.00-17.15

COM II
pl. Nowy Targ 1-8
Counter 8
opening hours: 08.00-17.15

COM IV
al. M. Kromera 44
Counter 11
opening hours: 08.00-17.15

The application may be filed by the party or its appointed proxy. The maximum time of waiting is 7 days.
Fee: 35 PLN

Required applications and documents:

Application with a statement of residence

Attention!

The form must be printed: on one A4 page as a whole (on both sides!), without reduction, enlargement or change of proportions, in the normal (not ink-saving) print mode. Because of small margins of the form, printing on some printers (e.g., laser printers) may be impossible.

colour photograph with dimensions of 35 x 45 mm, taken against a uniform background, with fine focus and reproduction of the natural skin colour, encompassing the image from the top of the head and the top part of the shoulders, so that the face occupies 70-80% of the photograph, showing clearly the eyes, particularly the eyelids, and presenting the person in a frontal position, without headgear and dark eyeglasses, looking straight with open eyes not covered by hair, with the natural facial expression and the closed mouth.

The photograph should be taken not earlier than 6 months before the day of submission of the application

a person with congenital or acquired eyesight disabilities may enclose to the application a photograph presenting him/her in dark eyeglasses; in such case, a confirmation of disability (if the person is less than 16 years’ old) or a confirmation of the degree of disability (if the person is at least 16 years’ old) because of a congenital or acquired eyesight disability, issued pursuant to the provisions of the Act of 27 August 1997 on professional and social rehabilitation and the employment of disabled person (Journal of Laws 2011.127.721) is also enclosed to the application;
a person wearing headgear in accordance with the principles of his/her religion may enclose to the application a photograph presenting him/her in headgear, if the image of the face is fully visible – in such case, a certificate of belonging to a religious community registered in the Republic of Poland is enclosed to the application.