Stop administrative chaos in Warsaw and across Poland
A civic initiative of foreigners in Poland. We demand the repeal of Article 100d and a return to the deadlines of the Code of Administrative Procedure.
How to read this site
Where to start and what each menu section contains - in the best reading order.
- 1. Sixteen offices in numbersHow long a residence case takes in each voivodeship, how many cases are waiting and where it is heading. The best start.
- 2. Forecast: what happens if nothing changesHow many cases will be in the queue by the end of 2027 and how long a person applying today would wait - calculated from the offices' own data.
- 3. The ponaglenie nobody examinesWhy the legal remedy against delay does not work - and what you can do yourself.
- 4. How the person asking becomes the accusedWhat offices write instead of answering simple questions.
- 5. FAMI moneyWhat EU money is spent on and why nobody measures whether cases get faster.
- 6. A court answers in six daysSame law, different institution: the courts answered every request within a week, with no demands or refusals.
- 7. One request, sixteen answersThe same letter to sixteen voivodes and sixteen different reactions.
- 8. What the state knows about itselfThe audit office has known since 2019, the ministry has the tables and allocates money by them. There is no supervision.
- 9. Rulings from another storyWhich rulings offices cite when refusing information - and what is really under those case numbers.
- 10. How the state answersHow institutions answered the same questions: from a week in court to accusations of "harassment".
- Data: Office rankingWhich offices answer reliably and which extend, refuse and accuse.
- Data: Cases letter by letterEvery question we asked and all the correspondence that followed.
- Data: QuotesThe most telling sentences from official letters - with a fact next to each.
- Data: DocumentsAll letters in full, to check - the source of every number on the site.
- Data: How the data was usedWhere these documents went: RCL, NIK, the Ombudsman, the European Commission, parliament.
- Take actionLetter generator: ponaglenie, court complaint, petition to the Sejm, letter to your MP, complaint to the European Commission.
- For mediaPress materials, facts and sources, media kit.
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News
All news04.11.2026
The ledger, cassation appeals and reminders: three new reports and over 1,400 documents
Three new reports based on official letters. "The ledger": in 2025 citizens of 58 countries declared PLN 6.28 billion of income tax due in Poland and ZUS recorded PLN 23.9 billion in social contributions for foreigners, while on 1 July 2026 there were 803,223 pending cases and the average time from application to decision was 242-658 days. "The state loses and appeals": in 2026 the Pomorskie voivode filed 185 cassation appeals, Mazowieckie 110, and ten of fifteen voivodes at most one. "Do not pass on reminders": how an act and a UdSC circular disconnected the safety switch. We also updated the reports on FAMI, the state's answers and statistics; the archive now holds over 1,400 documents.
Read "The ledger"17.10.2026
Courts answer in six days. Three new reports, 1,230 documents
Sixteen administrative courts answered 31 of 31 of our requests within the statutory 14 days (median: 6 days), with no demands, extensions or refusals. Offices in the same period: 60 demands to prove "particular significance", 36 extensions, 37 refusals. New reports: on the courts, on one request answered sixteen different ways, and on what the state knows about itself. The archive now holds 1,230 documents, including all correspondence with the courts.
Read the report
What we do
Four ways we track and expose the administrative chaos.
Media about us
- Immigrants took to the streets of Warsaw. The first protest of its kindWyborcza Warszawa · PL
- Foreigners protested in Warsaw. "Why have they forgotten me?"Onet · PL
- "We pay taxes, we wait for years" - foreigners' protest in WarsawNowiny Wschodnie · PL
- There will be a protest. Foreigners wait up to 650 days for residence legalisation. They face huge problemsOKO.press · PL
- Foreigners' rally in Warsaw: how it wentVitrina.pl · RU
- A migrants' rally over residence permit delays took place in Warsaw - how it wentVot-Tak.tv · RU
Why we act: stop living in waiting mode
The average processing time for a legalisation case ranges from 242 days in the Małopolskie Voivodeship to 658 in the Silesian Voivodeship: from eight months to almost two years. The statutory deadline is 60 days. Data from the Ministry of the Interior and Administration itself, response to interpellation No. 18089 as of 6 July 2026.
463,487 cases concerning temporary residence and work are currently awaiting voivodes' decisions.
Article 100d has rendered ponaglenie meaningless: the Head of the Office for Foreigners is obliged to apply it and refuses. Together with the preceding Article 100c, the suspension of deadlines has lasted since April 2022 - almost five years - even though it was conceived as a temporary measure and has been extended six times.
And the state knows the provision is unlawful. Since May 2025 the Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) has refused to apply it as contrary to Article 45 of the Constitution. In a letter of 29 June 2026 the Ministry of the Interior admitted that courts most likely will not apply it either. The provision remains in force.
The queue does not clear: by our calculation, based on Foreigners' Affairs Office data, 392,353 cases accumulated beyond what the offices manage to process during 2022-2025, and the gap grows by roughly 100,000 cases a year.
We are not asking for privileges. Foreigners' contributions to ZUS amount to PLN 21.5 billion a year - 6.2% of all pension contributions in the country. Among Ukrainian citizens, 857,100 people pay contributions, while around 12,000 receive a pension or annuity. Our obligations are enforced immediately and under threat of sanctions. The state's obligations in return have been suspended for five years.
We demand the repeal of Article 100d, a return to the norms of the Code of Administrative Procedure (KPA), an increase in staffing in foreigner-affairs departments, and transparent publication of case-processing data.
100% peaceful
A lawful public gathering, coordinated with authorities.
Abolish Article 100d of the special act
The special act must not be a cover for incompetence. We demand the restoration of lawful processing deadlines and the Office's return to the normal legal framework of the KPA.
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Migrants, expats, Polish citizens - everyone is welcome.
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