Poland in India

On 10 April 2010, a special TU-154M plane with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska on board took off from Warsaw to Smolensk. On that very day the members of the official delegation were to participate in the ceremonies taking place in the Katyn War Cemetery, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the crime committed there. The aircraft carried 96 people, including members of the highest state authorities, representatives of various social circles and religious denominations, high-ranking military commanders and the plane’s crew. All the flight passengers died in the air disaster which took place during landing at the airport near Smolensk.

Due to the COVID-19 situation, we kindly inform that in order to withdraw the passport, applicant needs to withdraw the whole application. Applications submitted directly in the Consular Section can be withdrawn everyday between 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Applicants who applied in the VFS should submit their request there. Please note that in case of withdrawal, the visa fee will not be refunded and the application will no longer be processed.

Please be informed that Consular Section in New Delhi limits its operations due to COVID-19 emergency.

The President of Poland on the 75th Anniversary of Liberation of the Nazi German Death Camp KL Auschwitz.

We are happy to announce start of our cooperation with VFS Global. From 13th of December 2019 all applicants can submit their visa application forms at the VFS visa application centers (VAC) in Delhi and in Mumbai. On the 8th of January 2020 next VACs will be opened.

Uprzejmie informujemy, że od 13 grudnia 2019 roku rozpoczynamy współpracę z VFS Global. Od tej pory wnioskodawcy z Indii i Afganistanu (wizy C i D) oraz Bangladeszu, Malediwów, Nepalu i Sri Lanki (wizy D) będą mogli złożyć aplikacje wizowe w biurze VFS w Nowym Delhi. Kolejne miasta, w których będzie można wnioskować o wizę do Polski to Bhopal, Czandigarh, Dźajpur i Kalkuta.

Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer and activist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”

Eighty years ago, German aggression on Poland started the Second World War. In the early hours of 1 September 1939, troops of the German Reich crossed the Polish-German border. Polish Army put up military resistance and expected the Allies’ reaction. On 3 September 1939, France and the UK declared war on the German Reich but did not take any real military action. Poland’s tragic fate was sealed on 17 September 1939 when the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Poland from the East. The attack of the German Reich and the Soviet Union resulted from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by the two totalitarian regimes, a secret protocol to which effectively divided Central Europe into the so-called spheres of influence.