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Driving licence – the replacement of the foreign driving licence

Driving licence – the replacement of the foreign driving licence issued by a member state of the European Union, a state party to the Road Traffic 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: 08.00-15.15

The application may be filed by a person having a valid national driving licence issued abroad who has stayed in the territory of the Republic of Poland for at least 185 days in each calendar year because of his/her personal or professional ties or having a certificate confirming that he/she has studied for at least 6 months).

The application for the issue of a driving licence may be filed personally or by means of an electronic registry box.

Web page for the customer: www.esp.pwpw.pl

It is possible to receive information about the document produced and ready for receipt in the Office by phone text message (SMS) or by e-mail.
In order to use this charge-free service, a person applying for a new document is required to state his/her phone number or the e-mail address.
In addition, it is possible to reserve the queue number in the online queue number reservation system via web page Reservation of visits.

The following fees are charged for the issue of a driving licence:

fee for the issue of a driving licence: 100 PLN
registration fee: 0.50 PLN

The time of waiting for the issue of a driving licence: up to 30 days from the time of submission of the application.

In cases requiring the confirmation of data and information contained in the foreign driving licence document by the authority that issued the driving licence in accordance with Article 35 of the Code of Administrative Procedure, the time of waiting will not include the time of performance of these activities.

Required applications and documents:

For review: the original driving licence and a document confirming the right of residence or the Polish personal ID card.

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.