Court decisions

We collect administrative court rulings in residence-legalisation cases. Most entries can be checked in CBOSAPL🌐 Translate; cases from the WSA in Warsaw come from that court’s register and are marked in the table.

What these numbers say

When the court assesses a case on the merits, the applicant wins in almost 9 cases out of 10 (1678 of 1920). That is the real answer to “is it worth going to court”.

And since October 2025, when the courts followed the NSA line and stopped applying the art. 100d suspension directly, it is better still: 96% of merits cases won (1427 of 1483). The courts that changed are exactly the ones that used to dismiss most — Wrocław and Gliwice. We explain what happened in the guide to art. 100d.

But half the cases in this database never reach a decision on the merits — they end in a procedural ruling, and then the applicant never wins. Here is the important part: those losses mostly do not mean the court sided with the office. They come from avoidable procedural mistakes — the most common ones are in the table below the list of rulings.

The court fee is 100 zł, and if your finances are difficult you can apply for legal aid (prawo pomocy). A reminder (ponaglenie) is a precondition for the complaint. Both obstacles can be cleared, and we describe both step by step:

• Reminder template — file it before going to court
• WSA complaint template — covering the fee and legal aid