Click a voivodeship to select it. You can select several. A zebra over the colour and “≈” mean fewer than 3 cases, so the value is very rough.
Kraków: residence card waiting times
How long people really wait for the fingerprint call, the decision and the card in Kraków (Lesser Poland Voivodeship), how far the queue has come and what changed in recent months.
Showing:MOS 2Temporary residence
Cases selected3021 with no decision reported
To decision: in person / by post—half of cases, n = 0
To decision: MOS 25.4+ mohalf of cases, n = 30+3 d/mo · no change
MOS 2: to fingerprint call2 mo 23 dmedian, n = 25+21 d/mo · worse
From decision to card1 mo 13 dmedian, n = 2
In short
- Fingerprint calls are now reaching filings from: Kraków (MOS 2) — Jun 2026.
- The MOS 2 fingerprint call takes about 3 mo 14 d (median of the last 3 months, 14 cases) — waits are growing by about 21 days every month. This is partly expected: MOS 2 has only existed since 27.04.2026, so nobody could have waited longer yet.
- Only 9 of 30 cases filed through MOS 2 have a decision so far, about 2 mo 29 d after filing. These are the fastest ones: the rest are still waiting, so the typical wait is longer.
- Kraków: half get a decision within 5.4+ mo, 25 d faster than across Poland (6+ mo).
- The longest wait among cases with no decision reported (updated in the last six months) is 5 mo 24 d since filing.
- In the last 30 days people reported 1 decision.
This summary is generated from data as of 03.11.2026 and recalculated for the selected filters. It is a guide, not official statistics.
Each row is a case, sorted by filing date.
Grey is filing to fingerprints (a light notch marks the call), blue is fingerprints to decision, green is the card being made, and the ring is the day the card was picked up. People who filed in person gave fingerprints the same day, so they have no grey part.
A diamond on the bar marks a contact: hollow for something you did (documents brought, ponaglenie, questions), filled for something the office did (document requests, answers, case number). Hover for details.
A dotted line and a hollow square mark a date known ahead of time (fingerprint appointment, expected decision, card pickup slot); faded if that date has passed without confirmation.
A pale green bar ending in a dashed ring means the card was most likely collected: over 3 months have passed since the decision (nearly all cards come sooner), but nobody posted the date; the ring sits where the card is usually ready.
The green dashed line is 27.04.2026: from that day every application goes through MOS 2.