Licensed recruitment of skilled Filipino professionals for Polish employers. Your company is the direct employer — we run selection in Manila, the Polish permit process and the Philippine exit formalities end to end. From 1 worker.
Poland was the Philippines' largest European work-permit market in 2024, and since June 2025 its work permit is electronic, test-free and valid for three years. What sets the calendar is visa-appointment capacity in the Philippines: slots at the BLS centres are released per the Embassy's schedule and the Embassy says it cannot add more. These guides cover the permit, the Manila visa, the MOS single permit, who may be the employer (direct or a KRAZ agency), the driver chain for hauliers, production, construction, shipyard and warehouse crews, pay rules and the Philippine side through MWO Prague.
Every Polish project runs on the same backbone: you define the roles, headcount and start date; our own DMW-licensed agency in Manila, Prime Search, sources and trade-tests candidates; you approve the shortlist (on-site or online); and we manage the Polish permit process under your power of attorney while the Philippine side — contract verification, medical, pre-departure orientation and the Overseas Employment Certificate — runs in parallel. The employment contract is signed and verified before departure; your new employee lands, completes local onboarding and clocks in.
The Polish specifics below are the part that makes Poland different from every other market we serve.
Work permit type A (zezwolenie na pracę typ A) and national visa D; temporary residence and work permit (single permit) in Poland. Since 1 June 2025 a Polish employer hires a Filipino on a work permit type A applied for electronically through praca.gov.pl at the voivodeship office: no labour-market test and no starosta opinion, pay at least the statutory minimum and not lower than comparable employees, a written contract before work begins in a language the worker understands, validity up to three years, a fee of PLN 400 (PLN 200 for work of up to three months) since 1 December 2025. The statutory decision time is one month (two in complex cases); the national average had lengthened to about 81 days by April 2026 and varies by voivodeship. With the permit the worker applies for a national visa D in person at the BLS visa application centres in Metro Manila or Cebu, where appointment slots are released according to the Embassy's published schedule, first come, first served, and the Embassy states it cannot add capacity — the real bottleneck of the Polish route — and after arrival may switch to a temporary residence and work permit filed only through the MOS system since 27 April 2026 (PLN 440 + PLN 100). The declaration route that makes Poland fast for Ukrainians is not available to Philippine nationals. Poland was the Philippines' largest European work-permit market in 2024.
Labour-market test: None since 1 June 2025. A starosta may set a list of occupations closed to foreigners in a difficult local market, approved by the voivode; none had been set at the time of review. The Council of Ministers may set annual permit limits.
Shortage occupations: No shortage list is needed — occupations are open by default; a draft ministerial list of deficit occupations with a simplified procedure was shelved in June 2026. The constraint is capacity, not eligibility: 6,183 work visas were issued in the Philippines in 2024, appointment slots at the BLS centres are released per the Embassy's schedule, and the Embassy states it cannot add capacity. Demand for production, logistics, construction, shipyard and driver roles remains high; the Philippines was the largest source of Polish work permits in 2024 and second in early 2025.
Deploying a Filipino worker abroad is regulated by the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). Migrant Workers Office Prague (Philippine Embassy in Prague) has handled labour matters for Poland since 1 December 2021 — employer accreditation and contract verification; the Philippine Embassy in Warsaw provides consular services. The verified contract, together with the job order approved by the DMW, allows the worker to obtain the Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) — the exit clearance without which no Filipino worker can legally leave for a job abroad. Pre-employment orientation, medical examination at a DOH-accredited medical clinic authorised to examine overseas Filipino workers and pre-departure orientation complete the sequence. Because we operate the licensed agency ourselves, this runs in parallel with the Polish permit rather than after it.
Typical gate-to-gate time for Poland is 4–7 months from brief to first working day — visa-appointment capacity in the Philippines, not the permit, sets it from signed engagement to the first arrival, driven mainly by visa-appointment capacity in the Philippines (BLS slots released per the Embassy's schedule, first come, first served), the voivodeship's processing time, and the MOS single-permit step for stays beyond the visa. Sourcing and trade testing usually take two to four weeks and are not on the critical path. We give you a written timeline for your specific role before you commit.
Sectors where Polish employers most often hire Filipino workers through us:
Our contractual partner is the employer, and it is the employer we invoice for the service. You receive an individual offer for Poland covering sourcing, trade testing, documentation, the permit process and arrival support — there is no price list, because volumes, roles and the Polish route differ from project to project. Direct employment means the worker's wage is paid by you under your Polish contract; there is no intermediary employer.
A Polish employer briefs us on roles and headcount. Within two to four weeks we present trade-tested candidates from Manila with video assessments; the employer interviews online and approves. We file the work permit type a under power of attorney while Prime Search completes the DMW documentation. The employment contracts are signed and MWO-verified before departure; on arrival the workers complete registration and local onboarding and start on the floor — with our team reachable for the first months of integration. Whether the project is one specialist or a full shift, the mechanics are identical.
The permit is faster — one month by statute, about 81 days in practice — but visa-appointment slots in the Philippines are released in scheduled batches with limited capacity, so brief to first working day is four to seven months, similar to Germany's recognition-based routes.
No. Since 1 December 2025 the declaration covers only citizens of Armenia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine; Filipinos need the work permit type A.
Not for the permit. The contract must be given in a language the worker understands; most plants run English-speaking team leaders, and we brief Polish safety vocabulary before departure.
Only a temporary work agency registered in KRAZ, as the employer of temporary workers; the 2025 Act refuses permits where the worker would work for a third party without that status.
The permit is tied to the employer; a change requires a new application. Since 8 July 2026 a change from a civil-law to an employment contract with the same employer needs no new permit.
Yes — the chain is the permit and visa, exchange of the Philippine licence (Vienna Convention party), Code 95 initial qualification and driver qualification card, tachograph card and the GITD driver attestation to the carrier; five to eight months to international dispatch.