Poland in Malaysia

Before you apply, you must decide which visa you need:

Airport transit Schengen visa (A-Type)

Choose this visa type if you plan to pass through an international transit area of a Schengen airport travelling with a passport of one of these states: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Sri Lanka. Furthermore, Poland also requires citizens of Armenia, Egypt and Cuba to apply for an airport transit visa. 

You can apply for an A-Type visa only if:

• You are planning to stay only in the airport's transit area and are not planning to leave it.  The A-Type visa does not authorise you to stay in the Schengen area.

Schengen visa (C-Type)

Choose this visa if you plan to stay in Poland or other Schengen countries for a maximum of 90 days in each 180-day period of time. This means that you are allowed to stay in the Schengen zone legally only if your stay in Schengen countries did not exceed 90 days over the last 180 days. A special calculator on the European Commission’s website will help you count how long you can stay in Schengen countries.

You can apply for a Schengen visa in a Polish diplomatic mission if:

• Poland is the only destination country of your visit to the Schengen zone;
• you visit more than one Schengen country, but Poland is your main destination;
• you do not know which Schengen country will be your main destination, but you cross the Schengen border for the first time in Poland.

In exceptional cases it is possible to issue a Schengen LTV visa which is valid only in the territory of selected Schengen states.

National visa (D-Type)

Choose this visa if you want to stay in Poland for more than 90 days. The validity of a national visa cannot exceed one year. You also need to apply for a national visa if you seek asylum, repatriation, or if you use Polish Card privileges.

 

The possession of a visa is not equivalent to the automatic right of entry. The visa holder might be asked, at the external border of the Schengen zone, to provide evidence that he/she meets the entry  conditions, as provided for in Art. 5 of the Schengen Border Code.

Who is eligible:

EU citizens include:

• citizens of EU Member States,

• citizens of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) member states – parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland;

• Swiss Confederation;

• UK nationals;

A family member of an EU citizen is considered to:

• spouse of an EU citizen,

• a direct descendant of an EU citizen or their spouse, up to 21 years of age or a dependent of an EU citizen or their spouse,

• a direct ascendant EU citizen or his or her spouse who is an EU citizen

or their spouse.

The simplified visa procedure applies only to family members of EU citizens who reside in a Member State of which they do not have citizenship or who travel to such a country - therefore, in principle, it does not apply to family members of Polish citizens.

 

Under the procedure you are eligible to submit your visa application:

• free of charge,
• without prior appointment.

Required documents:

• A printed and signed visa application (filled in online)
• A recent photo in colour 35 x 45 mm size,
• A valid passport,
• A document confirming marriage or partnership with an EU national,
• A document confirming that you accompany an EU national in his/her journey or join him/her in their place of residence.

Visa refusal:

The consul's refusal to issue a visa is issued in the form of a decision. After receiving this refusal decision to issue this type of visa has the applicant has the right to appeal to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. An appeal shall be filed in writing through the consul who issued the decision, within fourteen days from the date of delivery of the decision to the party.

When you apply for a visa, you have to provide your biometric data: a photo in the case of a national visa and a photo and fingerprints in the case of a Schengen visa.

If you have already applied for a Schengen visa in the recent 59 months and if you have given your fingerprints, you do not have to give them again – the system will automatically transfer your data.

The following applicants do not have to give their fingerprints:

• children under 12;
• persons who are physically unable to give their fingerprints (because they do not have fingers or they suffer from a temporary finger trauma); 
• heads of states or governments, members of national governments and their accompanying spouses and members of official delegations if they are invited for official purposes;
• monarchs and high-ranking members of royal families, if they are invited for official purposes.

Right to information processed in SIS and VIS

Individuals' right to information

The Central Technical Authority of the National Information System – the Chief Commander of the Police COT KSI – the central technical authority of the National Information System is the controller within the meaning of Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation –  GDPR), in the scope of the use of data through the National Information System (KSI), processed in the Schengen Information System (SIS) and the Visa Information System (VIS).

Right to information

In accordance with Article 15 of the GDPR, every person has the right to obtain from the controller comprehensive information regarding the processing of their personal data.

Detailed information on the exercise of the right to information is available on the website of the National Police Headquarters Centre, at:

http://bip.kgp.policja.gov.pl/kgp/centralny-organ-techni/3943,Centralny-Organ-Techniczny-Krajowego-Systemu-Informatycznego-Komendant-Glowny-Po.html

The information is also available in English:

http://www.policja.pl/pol/sirene/prawo-osob-do-informac/76188,The-right-of-datasubjects-to-information.html