At its 10 March sitting, Poland’s Council of Ministers added a mobility-friendly amendment (UD-47) to the legislative pipeline, tweaking the Polish Language Act and the statute of the National Academic Exchange Agency (NAWA). If passed by parliament, the bill will allow universities to run entire degree programmes in English without today’s waiver procedure and will enable NAWA to issue multi-year scholarships to foreign PhD candidates even when their Polish proficiency is basic. The reform aligns with Warsaw’s target of doubling inbound international students to 150,000 by 2030 and plugging R&D talent gaps in biotech and cybersecurity. For corporate mobility teams, the headline is a proposed fast-track residence-permit path: NAWA-sponsored researchers would receive a pre-approved digital residence certificate valid for the full length of their grant, eliminating yearly renewals at voivodeship offices. Family members would obtain dependent permits under a simplified declaration instead of separate labour-market tests. Universities and employers must still verify private health insurance and accommodation, but the draft law mandates that all paperwork be filed via the government’s MOS e-portal—part of Poland’s broader shift to digital-only immigration processing launched in January. Stakeholders have until 31 March to submit comments; the Ministry of Science expects the bill to clear the Sejm before the summer recess, with changes entering into force on 1 October 2026.
