Polish industry hired more Filipinos than any other nationality in 2024 — operators, assemblers and machinists for plants from Silesia to Pomerania — and the number fell in 2025 only because the Manila visa queue did, not because the plants stopped asking. This page explains the route for production headcount, how we build a crew of twenty or two hundred, and how the ramp-up is paced by the Embassy rather than the voivode.
Polish employers obtained more work permits for Filipinos than for any other nationality in 2024 — the count had grown from about 7,500 in 2020 to some 30,000 in 2023 — and in the first four months of 2025 the Philippines was still second with 12,500 permits. The reasons are the ones plant managers give everywhere in Central Europe: English on the shop floor, documented vocational training (TESDA certificates, two- and three-year technical programmes), experience in the export zones' electronics and automotive plants and in Gulf and Asian factories, and retention that beats rotating labour. The 2025 fall in Polish permits — 251,500 in total, 22 % down, the lowest in seven years — followed the Embassy's visa capacity and stricter rules, not a loss of demand.
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 for the place of work: no labour-market test, 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, a validity of up to three years, a fee of PLN 400 for work longer than three months (PLN 200 for up to three months) since 1 December 2025 (Regulation of 20 November 2025, Dz.U. 2025 poz. 1622). The statutory decision time is one month (two in complex cases); the national average in practice has lengthened to about 81 days in April 2026, and it varies by voivodeship. With the permit the worker applies for a national visa D through the Embassy's visa application centres in the Philippines — where appointment capacity, not the permit, is the real bottleneck of the Polish route — and, once in Poland, may switch to a temporary residence and work permit filed only through the MOS system since 27 April 2026. The declaration route (oświadczenie) that makes Poland fast for Ukrainians is not available to Philippine nationals.
Gross pay at least the minimum of PLN 4,806 and in practice the plant's rate for the role; housing for the first period (the first reason workers leave when it is poor); the permit fee of PLN 400 and the single-permit fees of PLN 540 per worker; a bilingual team leader per cohort; and time — four to seven months to the first cohort, six to nine for two hundred. Recruitment, testing and the Philippine process are a separate engagement with us and are not quoted on this site.
Recruitment runs through our own DMW-licensed agency, Prime Search Manpower Agency Inc. in Makati (licence DMW-027-LB-11182024): your company is accredited at the Migrant Workers Office in Prague, which has handled labour matters for Poland since December 2021, the job order is registered with the DMW, and every worker leaves Manila with a verified contract, medical clearance, pre-departure orientation and an Overseas Employment Certificate. Recruitment follows the employer-pays principle: no applicant pays for an interview, a trade test or a place on a shortlist. Your company is the employer from day one; we never employ or lease the workers.
Everything here is subject to the Act of 20 March 2025 on the conditions for entrusting work to foreigners, the Act on Foreigners, the voivode's practice in force, the Polish Embassy in Manila's appointment rules, Polish labour law and Philippine DMW rules.
Yes, in cohorts: 20–50 every four to eight weeks, paced by visa-appointment releases in the Philippines. One hundred in six months is realistic; one hundred in one month is not.
Not for the permit. English-speaking team leaders and a Polish safety vocabulary briefed before departure are the practical standard; the contract must be given in a language the worker understands.
Yes, if it is a KRAZ-registered temporary work agency acting as the employer; a service contract with an unregistered intermediary is refused.
ZUS data cited in 2025 showed the largest registered groups in Mazowieckie and around Szczecin; plants in Silesia, Wielkopolska, Lower Silesia and Pomerania recruit as well.
General information for employers, not legal or migration advice. Rules change; we re-verify before each hire.