Researcher family-member mobility — short-term

both the declared and actual purpose of their stay in the territory of the Republic of Poland must be to reside with that researcher in that territory.

the foreign national who is a family member of a researcher holds a residence permit for the purpose of family reunification and a residence document issued in connection with that permit, as referred to in Article 1(2)(a) of Regulation No. 1030/2002, issued by another Member State of the European Union that has issued to that researcher the residence document referred to in Article 1(2)(a) of Regulation No. 1030/2002, or a long-term visa, with the annotation “researcher”; the residence permit or visa was issued to the foreign national by another European Union Member State, including a non-Schengen country (i.e., Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Cyprus) applying the aforementioned Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 11, 2016. (this therefore does not apply to residence permits issued by Ireland and Denmark, which are not bound by this directive).

a research institution based in the territory of the Republic of Poland, approved by the minister responsible for internal affairs pursuant to the provisions of Article 151(4)–(5) of the Act on Foreigners, shall submit to the Head of the Office for Foreigners a notification of the intention to exercise mobility by a foreigner who is a family member of a researcher exercising or intending to exercise short-term researcher mobility in that territory, meeting the relevant criteria, together with the attachments required by law.

The Act makes the party responsible for filing a notification on the short-term mobility of a researcher's family member in the territory of the Republic of Poland solely the researcher's unit -The foreigner is not entitled to file the notice himself.

information on the health insurance held by the researcher's family member; information on the financial means held by the researcher's family member to cover living costs and return travel costs to the Member State of the European Union that issued the residence tocument or long-term visa with the annotation „researcher”;

foreignerdoes not have the required health insurance, or sufficient financial resources to cover subsistence and return travel costs, or

may benefit from short-term mobility as a family member of a researcher within the territory of the Republic of Poland for a period not exceeding the duration of the residence permit issued for the purpose of family reunification, which means the right to enter and reside as a family member of a researcher conducting part of their scientific research or development work at a research institution based in Poland for a period of up to 180 days within any 360-day period,

has not issued a decision on objection — within 30 days of the receipt of the notification

Decision of the Head of the Office for Foreigners on objectionsis final in the administrative instance, which means thatno possibility of appeal from it or to file a request for reconsideration. On the decision to opposemay be appealed to the Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw, which should be filed through the Head of the Office for Foreigners within 30 days from the date of delivery of that decision.