Who can file here from 31 August 2026
Warsaw is the only Thai consulate for Poland and Ukraine: Thailand’s embassy to Ukraine operates out of Warsaw, with its residence in Poland. The whole cycle is remote.
Since 31 August the DTV is filed only in the country of citizenship or of permanent residence, and the package needs a criminal record certificate. Both requirements live in the e-Visa form; Warsaw’s DTV page is dated July 2024 and describes neither. So the picture differs for a citizen and for a foreign national with a residence permit.
A citizen of Poland files on a dowód osobisty, both sides, and stays in Poland for the whole processing period. A Pole living in another country does not file through Warsaw: applicants “must first return to their respective countries before applying”, in the post’s own words. You file where you live. From Germany that means Frankfurt, Munich or Berlin on an Aufenthaltstitel with a Meldebescheinigung, and an EU citizen needs only the Meldebescheinigung. From the United Kingdom and Ireland it means London, and only with ILR or Irish long-term residency. From Austria, Vienna on a residence permit; from France, Paris on a tax return; from the Netherlands, The Hague, and only with permanent residence.
A citizen of Ukraine files on an international passport or an ID card, from Ukraine or from Poland. The embassy reserves the right to ask for proof of lawful stay in Poland: a valid visa, Schengen or Polish national, an entry stamp or a certificate of the PESEL number, and it stresses that the applicant stays in Poland or Ukraine for the whole processing period. For people living in Ukraine there is a mismatch the post has not closed: formally the country of filing is Poland, while their permanent residence is Ukrainian.
A foreign national with a Polish karta pobytu. The post’s page says “long-term or permanent residence”. In Polish that is a karta pobytu marked “pobyt stały” or “rezydent długoterminowy UE”: both statuses are open-ended and, by the letter of the site, they qualify. A karta czasowego pobytu, valid for up to three years, does not formally fall under “long-term”, and we have not seen a single filing with one through Warsaw. The form’s new field, “permanent residence”, is not commented on by that 2024 page, so for a temporary card the question is open. Before the reform there were approvals for people who filed on a Polish residence permit without leaving Thailand; since 31 August that route is closed.
The post’s site and the application form disagree
The DTV page is dated 25 July 2024: it still shows a proof-of-current-location document, removed from the e-Visa form on 31 August, and says nothing about a criminal record certificate. The form, meanwhile, requires both the certificate and proof of permanent residence. There is no Polish version of the page at all: the “Wizy nieimigracyjne” section says “Not available information”, and a Pole reads it in English. Anyone who assembles a package from the site will turn up incomplete. We assemble the package for the form.
How filing works
- Everything online, through the e-Visa portal. The embassy does not look at documents sent by post: checking starts only after the application is filed in the system. Up to ten applications per account.
- The fee is 1,575 zloty by Visa or Mastercard, non-refundable. That is about 13,950 THB or $423 at the ECB rate on 3 September 2026, 40% more than the “10,000 THB” Polish blogs quote. The most expensive DTV fee in Europe after Bern.
- Timeline per the post’s site: 10 to 15 working days, and the post does not accept urgent requests. In our cases Poles had a decision in 12 to 20 days, Ukrainians in anything from 9 days to a month and more. There are no new cases after 1 September.
- Documents in foreign languages are translated into English or Thai. Statements in Polish need a sworn translation, from a tłumacz przysięgły, or a bank certificate issued in English from the start; in our cases the sworn translation was required for bank documents only.
- Dependants: a spouse and children under 20, with the finances covered by a sponsorship letter and the sponsor’s statement.
- The post does not mention interviews, and there is no slot for one in the embassy’s booking system.
- Finances: no less than 500,000 THB, about 56,500 zloty at the ECB rate on 3 September; Polish blogs keep repeating “50 to 60 thousand”. The post writes about a statement for the last month, the form asks for three. We prepare three.
“The consulate’s official site says the account statement has to cover 1 month for a workation. I have never seen that anywhere — everyone asks for at least 3 months.” — applicants’ chat, 15 April 2026.
Warsaw’s standard document request is every page of the passport, blank ones included, in one PDF under 3 MB; the second most frequent is proof of physical presence in the country: an entry stamp, the boarding pass for the last flight into Poland, a signed written statement. That is how the post works, so allow time for it. The only refusal in our observations was a Ukrainian entrepreneur, a FOP sole trader, with a self-assembled package: the application was cancelled without explanation.
The criminal record certificate
The post’s site does not mention it; the form requires it. Warsaw has set no shelf life, so we hold to the general one: no older than three months.
The Polish certificate is the zaświadczenie o niekaralności from the Krajowy Rejestr Karny. In person at the Biuro Informacyjne KRK or at a KRK point in a court it is issued on the spot for 30 zloty; through e-KRK it costs 20 and takes up to seven days. Anyone can obtain one, foreign nationals with a karta pobytu included, though for a non-EU citizen it will hold Polish data only. Two traps. The e-KRK certificate arrives as an XML file, and a printout is not an official document: “Nie drukuj zaświadczenia, bo nie będzie ono urzędowym dokumentem”. Legalisation needs the paper version. And it is issued in Polish only, with the applicant arranging the translation; the EU multilingual standard form is given to Polish citizens only and only for EU countries.
Whether the certificate has to be legalised for the DTV, Warsaw has not announced: of the posts we have checked, only Prague requires it. If the post does ask, the chain runs like this: legalisation at the Polish foreign ministry, 26 zloty, in person by appointment through e-Konsulat or by post, then the Thai embassy’s stamp, 80 zloty, two to three working days. An apostille does not work for Thailand yet: the Convention only enters into force there on 28 February 2027.
The form allows the certificate of the country of citizenship instead of the country of filing. For a Ukrainian in Poland that is a choice. For a Pole abroad it works the other way round: in Germany it is easier to get a Führungszeugnis than to carry a legalised KRK certificate over.
What else matters
The Police Clearance Certificate section on the embassy site is the Thai police certificate for people leaving Thailand and has nothing to do with the DTV. From 15 September 2026 visa-free entry for Polish citizens drops from 60 to 30 days.
What we track here
Nothing at the post has changed since 3 September: the same page, dated 25 July 2024, no new announcements, and no new filings in the chats after 1 September. Warsaw has more open questions than its neighbours: whether it will require the certificate in practice; whether “long-term residence” survives the 31 August rule or the post quietly switches to permanent, as Prague did; whether a karta czasowego pobytu gets through and whether rezydent UE equals permanent residence; what a Ukrainian living in Ukraine puts in that field; a statement for one month or for three. Any clarification from the post could change this route sharply. We check its page every week.
For citizens of Poland and Ukraine filing from home the right to file is not in question, and we take those cases. To holders of a temporary karta pobytu we speak honestly about the uncertainty and suggest starting with a Preflight Check.
A package you have assembled yourself we check before filing — the Preflight Check: $300, a written report within two working days. Full support all the way to the visa is the Solo Route and Family Route.
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