Warszawa 19115 - Miejskie Centrum Kontaktu

If you are a foreign national residing in Poland, you can register your address. You will then automatically be issued with a PESEL number. If you are unable to register your address but need a PESEL number, you can apply for one. Find out how to do it.

[!] You can apply for a PESEL number in person or through a representative if you are:

• a national of a Member State of the European Union or a member of their family,
• a national of a Member State of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) – a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, namely Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein – or a member of their family, 
• a national of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland who has been residing in the EU since at least 31 December 2020, or a member of their family covered by the provisions of the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union, known as “beneficiaries of the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union”. 

1. Download and complete the application form for a PESEL number. Sign it.
2. Apply in person or by proxy at any delegation of the Office of Administration and Civil Affairs.

[!] If the application does not meet the requirements set out in the regulations, we will call you to remedy the deficiencies. If you do not do so within 7 days, we will leave your application unprocessed.

3. If we approve your application, we will issue you with a notification that your PESEL number has been assigned.

[!] You can book a visit to the district office in the booking system.

1. Application for PESEL number (PDF, 149,2 kB).

[!] In the application, please provide the actual legal basis for your obligation to have a PESEL number. If an office (e.g. the Social Insurance Institution or the tax office) requires you to provide your PESEL number, it should also provide you with the legal basis.

2. A document confirming your identity, e.g. a passport, is available for inspection.
3. For review, please provide documents confirming the data you enter in the application for a PESEL number in items 3–5.
4. Power of attorney – if you are represented by a proxy in the case. If you wish to submit a copy of your power of attorney, it must be certified as a true copy by one of the following persons:

• a notary public,
• an advocate or legal adviser who is acting as an agent in the case,
• an authorised employee of the office handling the case - you must then also present the original document.

If you would like to check what rights you have in relation to the processing of your personal data in this case, please read our Information Clause (PDF, 377,8 kB).

You do not have to pay to submit this application.

Possible additional charges:

PLN 17 – stamp duty for submitting a document confirming the granting of a power of attorney or proxy. The power of attorney you grant to a spouse, ascendant (parent, grandparent), descendant (child, grandchild) or sibling is free of charge.

PLN 5 – stamp duty for certifying a document's copy as a true copy of the original by an office employee. We charge a fee for certifying each page started. We will not charge this fee if you are submitting original copies or documents that have already been certified as true copies of the originals.

Instructions for paying stamp duties:

1. at any Office cash desk,
2. cashless on-site – if there is a terminal, payment machine, etc. available where you submit the application.,
3. by wire transfer.

Warsaw City Hall, Taxpayer Service Centre
Account number: 21 1030 1508 0000 0005 5000 0070
In the transfer title, please write what you are paying for, e.g. fee for a power of attorney for XXX XXXX in case XXXXX.

You can submit your application in person or through a representative at any Administration & Resident Services Department Delegation in Warsaw. 
Applications may be submitted by a representative on behalf of citizens of EU and EFTA Member States, as well as beneficiaries of the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union. 
[i] You can find out who is eligible to benefit from this agreement in the “Notes” section.

Office of Administration and Citizen Affairs of the Warsaw City Hall

We will process your request promptly.

In this case, you cannot appeal.

The beneficiaries of the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the EU are:

• UK nationals who have exercised their right of residence in an EU Member State since at least 31 December 2020 and who continue to reside there, and their family members;
• UK nationals who have exercised their rights as frontier workers in at least one EU Member State since at least 31 December 2020 and who continue to do so, and their family members.

1. Act of 24 September 2010 on population registration
2. Regulation of the Minister for Internal Affairs of 4 January 2012 on assigning or change of PESEL number