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As of 3 October 2026 in Wroclaw, some CUKR cards filed around 10–15 May are already being collected, while standard MOS 2.0 cases (employment, studies, business) filed in May–June are beginning to receive fingerprint appointments. Some pre-MOS 2.0 cases from February–March are receiving decisions. This is ONE PLUS practice, not an official DUW deadline.
Updated on 3 October 2026. This page combines the current case patterns ONE PLUS is seeing in Wrocław and Lower Silesia with the official rules for MOS and CUKR. The filing date matters, but it is not enough on its own: a case may still be waiting for an in-person appointment, fingerprints, document review, a decision or production of the physical residence card.
Applications for the CUKR residence card opened on 4 May 2026 through MOS. In early October, ONE PLUS is already seeing applicants who filed around 10–15 May receive messages that their card is ready and collect the physical document.
If the present pace continues, the second half or end of October may gradually bring collection for some applications filed in late May and early June. This is useful as a practical reference point, but it is not an individual forecast for any specific case.
CUKR follows a simplified procedure and should not be measured against the standard residence-permit fingerprint queue. In the ordinary course of a CUKR case, the applicant is not separately summoned to present a passport, provide fingerprints or submit a signature specimen; personal attendance is mainly connected with collecting the personalised card. The official CUKR processing period is up to 180 days.
A CUKR card is not preceded by a separate positive administrative decision. After the required checks, the voivode either issues the card or refuses to issue it. The absence of a separate positive decision before CUKR collection is therefore normal for this procedure.
In current ONE PLUS cases, some applicants connected with Wrocław receive an SMS directing them to collect the card at another branch of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship Office. We have already seen collection locations including Jelenia Góra and Wałbrzych.
This does not mean every Wrocław applicant should travel there. Collect the card only at the location stated in your own SMS or official notice. The Office also has a branch in Legnica, but the collection point is determined for the individual case.
Since 27 April 2026, the main applications for temporary residence, permanent residence and EU long-term resident status have been filed electronically through MOS. Online filing removed the need to visit the office simply to register the application, but an in-person stage remains part of the procedure.
As of 3 October, ONE PLUS is seeing Wrocław applicants who filed through the new system in May and June 2026 begin to receive appointments, including cases based on work, study and business activity. In practice, this currently often means roughly four to five months between electronic filing and the first in-person visit.
At the appointment, the applicant confirms identity, presents the original passport, provides fingerprints and a signature specimen, and may be asked to complete or update the file.
If several months have passed since filing, check whether the documents supporting your residence basis still reflect your current situation.
Work. Review the employment contract, employer, position, salary, working time and employer-side documents. If anything has changed, identify what needs to be updated in the case. In employment-based applications, the applicant’s data and the employer’s information should be consistent.
Study. Prepare a current certificate from the school or university and check documents relating to continued study, tuition, insurance and financial resources where required. A new semester, transfer, leave of absence or ending studies may be relevant to the residence case.
Business. Review current company documents, address, management changes, financial information and evidence of genuine business activity that is relevant to the residence basis.
Family, address, housing and insurance. If you moved, your tenancy ended, your family circumstances changed or you obtained new insurance, check whether the voivode should be notified and what evidence should be submitted.
The goal is not to bring a random folder of documents “just in case”. The better approach is to make sure that after the visit the file contains current documents relevant to the actual residence basis, reducing the risk of an avoidable follow-up request.
Keep the UPO, PDF and XML versions of the submitted application. Monitor not only the MOS account, but also official correspondence, e-Delivery, regular mail and messages received by your representative. MOS is the filing channel, but it does not replace every form of communication with the voivodeship office.
Fingerprinting is an important procedural step, but it is not the final decision. After the visit, the inspector continues reviewing the residence basis and supporting documents.
In some complete standard cases, ONE PLUS currently sees a further 2–3 months or longer before the case moves to a decision. The timing varies with the quality of the file, additional checks and any changes that occurred after the application was submitted.
Applications filed before 27 April 2026 continue on the stage applicable to each individual case. In early October, ONE PLUS is seeing decisions in some cases filed in February and March 2026.
That does not mean the office has simply “reached March” or that all earlier cases are finished. Some proceedings have involved requests for documents, employer changes, new evidence, additional checks or long periods without visible movement. We also see individual cases that remain unresolved since December 2025.
In a standard residence case, the authority first decides the application for a residence permit. The administrative decision then has to be properly served and the next formal steps completed before the physical residence card is produced.
For that reason, saying “I have been waiting for my card for eight months” does not identify the real stage of the case. It matters whether the applicant is waiting for the in-person appointment, the decision, the post-decision formalities or production of the card itself.
Polish law contains standard time limits for particular residence procedures, but in 2026 they cannot simply be counted from the date an application was sent through MOS. In addition to the rules on a complete file, a special provision in Article 100d applies until 4 March 2027, under which the running of time limits in specified voivode proceedings does not begin or is suspended.
This does not mean residence cases are frozen. Offices continue to schedule appointments, collect fingerprints, request documents and issue decisions. It does mean that a reliable decision date cannot be calculated solely from the month in which the application was filed.
Even applications filed on the same date may progress differently. The main factors usually include:
The filing date is useful as a reference point, but a meaningful assessment requires the full case timeline.
Do not automatically apply Wrocław waiting patterns to Warsaw, Katowice or another voivodeship. Each office has its own workload, organisation and case queue. This page intentionally focuses on Wrocław and the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, where ONE PLUS can observe the day-to-day movement of actual cases.
Start by reconstructing the case history: whether there is a UPO, whether the in-person visit took place, which documents are already in the file, whether any formal requests were issued, what changed after filing and where official correspondence was sent. Only then does it make sense to decide whether documents should be updated, the case status should be clarified or procedural measures should be analysed.
Sending the same generic letter every week is usually less useful than identifying the exact stage that is stalled and dealing with that issue directly.
ONE PLUS assists with MOS 2.0 applications and with residence proceedings that are already underway in Wrocław. We review the residence basis, application and attachments, UPO, inspector correspondence, current documents and changes that occurred after filing. For an existing case, the first task is to identify its real stage and remove issues that are within the applicant’s control.
The date of the authority’s decision is not controlled by ONE PLUS. Case support therefore focuses on document quality, timely responses to official correspondence and the right action at each procedural stage.
This material was updated on 3 October 2026. The current filing months and procedural stages described above come from ONE PLUS’s practical observations in Wrocław; the procedural rules were checked against official sources:
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