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I’m writing this because I’m trying to do something that has become VERY important to me, and I’m looking for other people who have gone through confirmation or are still waiting .
MY STORY: I was born in Canada into a Polish family. I grew up SO Polish. Polish was my first language, I went to Polish school, spent time in Poland throughout my childhood, and grew up with my grandparents’ food, stories and history. Poland was never a country some distant ancestors came from. It was always part of my family and who I am.
Last year I moved to Poland and applied for confirmation of my Polish citizenship. I submitted my application on 13 October 2025, and on 30 July 2026 (approximately 290 days later) the Dolnyśląsk formally confirmed that I possess Polish citizenship.
I am incredibly grateful. My case is finished, and I received exactly what I had hoped for.
But going through the process made me start thinking about something much bigger than me. Can you see how many institutions became involved simply to establish whether I was already a Polish citizen under Polish law.
My case involved Polish consular authorities in Canada, the Kancelaria Prezydenta RP, Mazowiecki Urząd Wojewódzki, USC Polkowice and historical records concerning my family.
Behind every request and response was a public employee doing that work. Someone just going to work. Someone with a family.
So this is not an attack on the Urząd or the officials who handled my case. It actually made me wonder whether the system itself requires officials to perform far more repetitive administrative work than should be necessary.
Could some checks be centralized or digitized? Could independent inquiries happen simultaneously? Could officials have better access to information already held by the Polish state? Could applicants have more transparency about what their case is waiting for?
Most importantly: can we make this process more efficient without weakening Polish citizenship law?
I am not asking Poland to make citizenship easier to obtain or to give citizenship to people who do not qualify.
I am talking specifically about people who already possess Polish citizenship under existing Polish law, but need the state to formally confirm it.
This matters to me because Poland has an enormous historical diaspora. Generations of Polish families left for Canada, the United States, Australia, South America and elsewhere under circumstances very different from those in Poland today.
Some descendants have little connection with Poland. Others grew up speaking Polish, visiting family, maintaining the culture and eventually wanting to come back.
And some of those people aren't asking Poland to make them Polish.
They already are Polish.
I think we should be able to bring our people home not by changing who qualifies, but by making the administrative system better at identifying and confirming its own citizens.
I am now preparing a serious proposal for reform of the confirmation procedure. I am documenting my own case in detail, but one case isn't enough to show that a problem is systemic. My ponaglenie is approved. I’m taking this to the senate.
That is why I need your help.
If you have gone through potwierdzenie posiadania obywatelstwa polskiego, please tell me your experience — good or bad, fast or slow.
I would especially like to know where and when you applied, how long it took, which additional documents or institutional checks were required, whether you submitted a ponaglenie, and where the longest periods of waiting occurred.
I am especially interested in anonymized timelines or documents if anyone is comfortable sharing them privately. Please redact personal information.
I don't want only negative experiences. Fast cases matter too, because they can show what is already working.
My own case is over. Nothing I do now can make my decision come faster. I already received it.
I’m doing this because I want to see whether something useful can come from my experience for the Polish citizens who go through this process after me.
If you've been through it, please tell me your story.