u/ThePetro

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I know it’s not for citizenship by descent, but really the same gov entity and the same problems. I’m glad that public attention turns to the issue, it may bring something good for us here too!

Recently we had a post from op whose life decisions like career and marriage were blocked by the process, I think it’s important to remember that for some the delay is not just an inconvenience

Without further ado, here are the statistics provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in response to my inquiry:

Number of employees assigned to confirmation cases at the Warsaw's office:

2024 - 13 employees

2025 - 10 employees

Number of confirmation motions at the Warsaw's office:

2024 - 24,869 applications

2025 - 24,592 applications

in other provinces motions mostly didn't exceed several hundred, in 3,a it was little over a thousand. Table with exact figures attached below.

The Ministry reprimanded the Mazovian Office in 2023 for an insufficient number of employees.

In 2024, they've done it again. The Mazovian Office informed the Ministry that the vacancies were only filled with new employees at the end of 2024.

The Ministry also says that the increase in revenue from the motions (August '25: increased the fee from 56PLN to 277PLN) does not land with the Mazovian Office but the Municipality of Warsaw. Thus, those funds will not be utilized for the betterment of the work at the Mazovian Office. The Ministry does not hold any sway over HR or the organisation of the Mazovian Office.

TL;DR - nothing will likely change ;-) maybe the new employees will cause the delay to stop but not to revert, once they are fully trained.

In my opinion, that's also not likely, given the number of motions goes into thousands. If one person does, let's say, 4 motions a day, and there are 251 working days a year (approx) = 1004 applications per employee. 10 employees = 10k applications a year. Less than half of the demand. The majority of applications are very complicated, and not all applicants provide papers organized neatly. I've seen a lot of those with huge gaps, disarray, etc. I doubt a junior employee can do more than 4-5 a day.

We're doomed! xD

Mod team - I suggest pinning this post, it might serve newcomers wondering about the delays.