Driving licence: apply or exchange
Official application for a Polish driving licence, an exchange (including a foreign licence for a Polish one), a duplicate, a change of data or an international licence. File it at the district or city office.
You get the official PDF with your answers in its boxes, ready to print and sign by hand.
About the form
- Official name
- Wniosek o wydanie uprawnienia do kierowania pojazdami
- Published by
- Minister Infrastruktury
- Form and legal basis
- Dz.U. 2026 poz. 1162 · załącznik
- Pages
- 4
- Official source
- eli.gov.pl
- Copy used here
- taken on 5 November 2026, checked against the source every day
The official blank
The same file as on the official source, to print and fill in by hand.
How to file it
What the law says about filing, each point with the passage it rests on. These sources are checked every day.
- The starosta issues the driving licence by a decision, on your application. Issuing it is paid.art. 10 ust. 1 ustawy o kierujących pojazdami
- You get a licence when you are old enough, have a medical certificate (and, for professional categories, a psychological one), have done the training and passed the state exam.art. 11 ust. 1 pkt 1-4 ustawy o kierujących pojazdami
- Any starosta issues an international driving permit, based on your Polish licence. The Geneva model is valid for a year, the Vienna model for 3 years, never longer than the national licence.art. 10 ust. 2, art. 10 ust. 2 pkt 1-2 ustawy o kierujących pojazdami
Updated on 7 November 2026. Rules and office practice change: check with your office yourself before you go.
What the form asks for
The questions in your language, as the site asks them. The printed form stays in Polish.
- Place
- Date (DD.MM.YYYY)
- Issuing authority
- Authority: street
- Authority: building number
- Authority: postal code
- Authority: town
- PESEL number
- Date of birth (without a PESEL, DD.MM.YYYY)
- Surname (first part)
- Surname (second part)
- Given name(s)
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- Place of birth
- Home address: postal code
- Citizenship (country code)
- Home address: town
- Home address: street
- Home address: building number
- Home address: flat number
- Phone
- Licence held: categories
- Licence held: number
- Licence held: blank number (nr druku)
- Licence held: date of issue (DD.MM.YYYY)
- Licence held: issuing authority
- Tram permit held: number
- Tram permit held: blank number (nr druku)
- Tram permit held: date of issue (DD.MM.YYYY)
- Tram permit held: issuing authority
- Moped card held: number
- Moped card held: blank number (nr druku)
- Moped card held: date of issue (DD.MM.YYYY)
- Moped card held: issuing authority
- Medical certificate: number
- Medical certificate: date (DD.MM.YYYY)
- Psychological certificate: number
- Psychological certificate: date (DD.MM.YYYY)
- Fee amount (PLN)
- Other enclosures (part C)
- Part D: Fee amount (PLN)
- Date of loss (DD.MM.YYYY)
- Change of data 1: from (before)
- Change of data 1: to (new)
- Change of data 2: from (before)
- Change of data 2: to (new)
- Part E: Fee amount (PLN)
- Residence statement: date (DD.MM.YYYY)
Example situations
Fictional people. When filling in the form, pick one to see a completed example, then replace the answers with yours.
Exchanging a foreign licence
A woman exchanges her Ukrainian category B licence for a Polish one and has it sent by post.
First licence, category B
A young man who passed the exam applies for his first licence and has it sent by post.
Duplicate after theft
A foreigner without a PESEL asks for a duplicate of his Polish licence after it was stolen.
Code 95 on the licence
A truck driver asks to have his driver qualification certificate confirmed in his licence (part D).
Adding category C
A man who already holds category B passed the category C exam and will collect the new licence in person.
New surname after marriage
A woman took her husband's surname and asks for a new licence with the changed data to be sent by post.
This site is not connected to any office. The office decides on your case, so check with it which documents and attachments it needs before you go.
Other forms
- PESEL number application
- PESEL with the UKR status
- Temporary residence registration
- Permanent residence registration
- Temporary residence deregistration
- Permanent residence deregistration
- Residence card: new card or replacement
- Report a lost or damaged document
- Schengen visa extension
- National visa extension
- Register your stay as an EU citizen
- Notice of leaving Poland
- Notice of return to Poland
- Change of temporary residence and work permit
- Notice of job loss
- Polish travel document for a foreigner
- Invitation register application
- Temporary identity certificate for a foreigner (TZTC)