The Chancellery of the Prime Minister quietly published a 141-page draft amendment to Poland’s Foreigners Act on 15 September 2026. The bill (filing number UC15) transposes Directive (EU) 2021/1883 on the EU Blue Card and, for the first time, embeds the government’s new MOS e-filing portal directly in statute. If enacted, highly-skilled third-country nationals would be able to change employers after six months, take up short-term assignments in other EU states under “long-term mobility”, and bring family members through an accelerated process. Crucially, Blue Card holders would be allowed to start a business in Poland on the same footing as Polish citizens—a long-standing request from multinationals that use Poland as a regional R&D hub. The draft also compresses security-screening deadlines from 30 to 10 days and introduces new obligations to notify authorities of any period of unemployment. Failure to do so could trigger an automatic revocation of status. These provisions are designed to satisfy EU requirements while preserving national-security vetting powers. From a practical perspective, all temporary, permanent and long-term residence applications—including Blue Card—would have to be filed electronically via MOS. Companies that still rely on paper filings will therefore need to update internal processes and power-of-attorney templates before the law’s planned entry into force on 1 January 2027. Authorities have hinted that transitional rules will be short, so HR and global-mobility teams should start mapping data flows and document-upload protocols now. Legal advisers expect the Sejm to open public consultations within days, with final passage possible in the fourth quarter. Because the bill implements an EU directive whose deadline has already lapsed, Brussels is likely to keep pressure on Warsaw for rapid adoption. Employers that depend on non-EU specialists should track the legislative calendar closely and prepare to leverage the friendlier Blue Card regime as soon as it becomes available.
