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  "id": "pl/mswia/wniosek-o-wydanie-paszportu",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "title": "Poland Passport Application (Wniosek o wydanie paszportu)",
  "description": "The Polish passport (paszport) application, through which an adult Polish citizen with full legal capacity applies for a first, renewed, or replacement standard 10-year passport. Since 13 November 2022 there is no downloadable paper wniosek: per art. 31 of the underlying Ustawa z dnia 27 stycznia 2022 r. o dokumentach paszportowych (Dz. U. z 2024 r. poz. 1063, the current consolidated text), the passport office (wojewoda or, abroad, a konsul) fills an electronic application form from data the applicant supplies plus data already held in the Rejestr Dokumentów Paszportowych (Register of Passport Documents) and the PESEL registry, which the applicant then signs on the office's own electronic-signature-capture device. This document models the data content art. 33 of that Act requires the application to contain — the applicant's identity data, an optional identity-corroboration block the office may additionally request under art. 38 ust. 5, the required correspondence address, the optional contact-data-register consent, and the fee/discount posture — plus the required supporting documents (a current identity document if one has ever been issued, a photograph meeting art. 41's detailed specification, and proof of fee payment or of a reduced/exempt-fee entitlement). It deliberately does not model: the application's own 'adnotacje urzędowe' (official annotations) content, which the receiving official — not the applicant — completes; the applicant's own signature or fingerprints, both captured biometrically in person on the office's own device, not supplied as structured data; the distinct minor/ward pathway (a parent, legal guardian, or curator filing on behalf of a person without or with limited legal capacity, art. 28 ust. 2 and art. 43); the separate paszport tymczasowy (temporary passport), paszport dyplomatyczny, and paszport służbowy processes, each with its own eligibility population and, for the temporary passport, its own distinct emergency-reason and no-PESEL data requirements (art. 35, art. 48); and the rare 'second passport' pathway (art. 46-47). GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Government of Poland or the Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji.",
  "status": "draft",
  "jurisdiction": {
    "country": "PL",
    "level": "national"
  },
  "authority": {
    "name": "Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji",
    "abbreviation": "MSWiA",
    "url": "https://www.gov.pl/web/mswia"
  },
  "process": {
    "type": "application",
    "language": "pl-PL"
  },
  "source": {
    "url": "https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1063/text.pdf",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-07-07",
    "documentRef": "Ustawa z dnia 27 stycznia 2022 r. o dokumentach paszportowych — tekst jednolity, Dz. U. z 2024 r. poz. 1063 (the current consolidated text; the 2022 poz. 350 original was re-verified article-for-article identical on every point this document models). Art. 5 (citizenship eligibility), Art. 33 (statutory contents of the wniosek o wydanie dokumentu paszportowego), Art. 36 (documents the applicant presents), Art. 38 ust. 5 (supplementary identity-corroboration data the office may request), Art. 41-42 (photograph and fingerprint requirements), Art. 17/20/21 (validity period and fee-reduction categories)."
  },
  "verification": {
    "method": "manual-source-review-v1",
    "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-07-07",
    "verifiedBy": "GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer)",
    "nextReviewBy": "2027-01-07",
    "notes": "GOV-1685: opens Poland's Passport vertical (4/6). No downloadable AcroForm or field-numbered informator exists for this process — gov.pl's own 'Uzyskaj paszport' service page states in its own words that no paper wniosek needs to be prepared at all, since the passport office fills an equivalent electronic form during the in-person visit. Rather than treat this as a dead end (the same conclusion reached for Spain's DNI and Chile's passport/national-ID gaps in prior cycles), this document instead sources every field directly from Art. 33 of the governing Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, the primary legislation that names exactly what data the wniosek must contain — a materially stronger source than a scraped/rendered form would be, since it is the legal definition of the form's content rather than one office's implementation of it. Cross-checked against the live gov.pl service page and a Katowice voivodeship-office service page for corroboration of the practical (non-statutory) details: fee amounts, processing time, discount categories in plain language, and the photograph/biometric process. See VERIFICATION.md for the full source inventory and every disclosed judgment call."
  },
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    "method": "maturity-self-assessment-v1",
    "assertedBy": "GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer)",
    "assertedAt": "2026-07-07"
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  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "isPolishCitizen",
      "label": "Obywatelstwo polskie",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "fieldRole": "eligibility",
      "eligibleValues": [true],
      "description": "Declaration of Polish citizenship. Art. 5 ust. 1 of the Act limits the right to hold a passport document to Polish citizens; a foreign national resident in Poland does not use this process at all. This folds the Act's own art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. e 'obywatelstwo' (citizenship) data element into a single eligibility attestation, the same treatment this registry's pl/mswia/wniosek-o-wydanie-dowodu-osobistego gives its own analogous obywatelstwoPolskie field — see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 5 ust. 1; Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. e"
    },
    {
      "name": "nazwisko",
      "label": "Nazwisko",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Current surname of the person to whom the passport is to be issued.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. a"
    },
    {
      "name": "imiona",
      "label": "Imię (imiona)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Given name(s), in full.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. b"
    },
    {
      "name": "dataUrodzenia",
      "label": "Data urodzenia",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Date of birth, ISO 8601.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. c"
    },
    {
      "name": "miejsceUrodzenia",
      "label": "Miejsce urodzenia",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Place of birth.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. d"
    },
    {
      "name": "plec",
      "label": "Płeć",
      "type": "enum",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Sex of the person to whom the passport is to be issued. The Act's own art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. f requires this data element without stating its coded values; this document reuses the two values (kobieta / mężczyzna) this same jurisdiction's own pl/mswia/wniosek-o-wydanie-dowodu-osobistego confirmed directly from that sibling form's AcroForm export values — a disclosed inference, see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. f",
      "validation": { "enum": ["kobieta", "mężczyzna"] }
    },
    {
      "name": "pesel",
      "label": "Numer PESEL",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "sensitive-pii",
      "description": "The 11-digit PESEL (Powszechny Elektroniczny System Ewidencji Ludności) national identification number of the person to whom the passport is to be issued.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. g",
      "validation": { "pattern": "^[0-9]{11}$" }
    },
    {
      "name": "nazwiskoRodowe",
      "label": "Nazwisko rodowe",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Birth (family) surname, supplied when it differs from the current surname above. The passport office may request this to help establish identity or a name-change history; unlike the dowód osobisty form, the Act does not make it a universal required element of every passport application — see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 38 ust. 5 pkt 1"
    },
    {
      "name": "poprzednieNazwiska",
      "label": "Poprzednie nazwiska",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Any previous surname(s) held before the current one, when it has been changed (e.g. through marriage or divorce). Requestable by the office on the same basis as nazwiskoRodowe.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 38 ust. 5 pkt 1"
    },
    {
      "name": "imieOjca",
      "label": "Imię ojca",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Father's given name. The office may request parents' given names and birth surnames to help establish the applicant's identity.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 38 ust. 5 pkt 2"
    },
    {
      "name": "imieMatki",
      "label": "Imię matki",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Mother's given name.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 38 ust. 5 pkt 2"
    },
    {
      "name": "nazwiskoRodoweMatki",
      "label": "Nazwisko rodowe matki",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Mother's birth (family) surname.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 38 ust. 5 pkt 2"
    },
    {
      "name": "nazwiskoRodoweOjca",
      "label": "Nazwisko rodowe ojca",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Father's birth (family) surname. Pkt 2 names this data element for the father on the same basis as nazwiskoRodoweMatki for the mother; the sibling pl/mswia/wniosek-o-wydanie-dowodu-osobistego form omits it because that form's own AcroForm genuinely only asks for the other three, but this Act's text names all four (plus both parents' current surnames, out of scope for this office-discretionary step — see VERIFICATION.md).",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 38 ust. 5 pkt 2"
    },
    {
      "name": "correspondenceAddressLine",
      "label": "Adres do korespondencji — ulica i numer",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Street name and house/apartment number of the applicant's correspondence address. The Act requires a correspondence address as one required element of every application (unlike the dowód osobisty form's own optional treatment of this block); no gazetted wniosek exists for this process to show how it is split into sub-fields, so this document models it as a single street-line field plus separate city/postal-code fields below, the same 3-field address convention this registry already uses elsewhere (e.g. gb/hmpo/passport-application-first-adult's addressLine1/addressTown/postcode) — a disclosed judgment call, see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 4",
      "validation": { "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 160 }
    },
    {
      "name": "correspondenceCity",
      "label": "Adres do korespondencji — miejscowość",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "City/locality of the correspondence address.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 4"
    },
    {
      "name": "correspondencePostalCode",
      "label": "Adres do korespondencji — kod pocztowy",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Postal code of the correspondence address, in Poland's NN-NNN format.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 1 pkt 4",
      "validation": { "pattern": "^[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{3}$" }
    },
    {
      "name": "numerTelefonuKontaktowy",
      "label": "Numer telefonu komórkowego",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Mobile phone number. Supplying it is voluntary; if supplied, it may be registered in the national contact-data register (Rejestr Danych Kontaktowych) so other public bodies can reach the applicant directly, the same register the dowód osobisty application also feeds.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 3"
    },
    {
      "name": "adresEmailKontaktowy",
      "label": "Adres poczty elektronicznej",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Email address. Supplying it is voluntary, on the same contact-data-register basis as numerTelefonuKontaktowy.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 33 ust. 3",
      "validation": { "pattern": "^([\\w-]+(?:\\.[\\w-]+)*)@((?:[\\w-]+\\.)*\\w[\\w-]{0,66})\\.([a-z]{2,6}(?:\\.[a-z]{2})?)$" }
    },
    {
      "name": "claimsReducedOrExemptFee",
      "label": "Wnoszę o obniżoną opłatę / zwolnienie z opłaty",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": false,
      "description": "True if the applicant claims one of the Act's statutory reduced-fee or fee-exempt categories (art. 21: minors under 12, minors 12-18, students/pupils 18-26, pensioners, holders of a social pension, persons with a disability certificate and their dependent spouses, residents of social-care homes or recipients of standing social-assistance benefits, combatants, and certified anti-communist-opposition activists/persons repressed for political reasons, among others) rather than the standard fee. This document does not enumerate the full category list as a closed validation.enum: the categories cross-reference several other Acts, are amended independently of this one, and are not the kind of fact this document's own source review can keep current — a disclosed scope limit, see VERIFICATION.md. When true, reducedOrExemptFeeProof is required.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 21; Art. 36 pkt 4"
    }
  ],
  "documents": [
    {
      "id": "currentIdentityDocument",
      "label": "Ważny dokument paszportowy lub dowód osobisty",
      "category": "identity-document",
      "required": false,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "handling": "The applicant's own currently valid passport document or, if no passport document has ever been issued, their valid dowód osobisty (national identity card) — presented only 'o ile został wydany' (if one was ever issued). A genuine first-time applicant who has also never held a dowód osobisty presents neither; the passport office instead confirms identity/citizenship via the PESEL registry, the Rejestr Dowodów Osobistych, or another photo-bearing document it accepts.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 36 pkt 1; Art. 38"
    },
    {
      "id": "photo",
      "label": "Fotografia",
      "category": "identity-document",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "freshness": { "issuedWithin": "P6M" },
      "handling": "One photograph, 35 x 45 mm, on a uniform light background with even lighting, good sharpness, and natural skin tone; framed from the crown of the head to the top of the shoulders so the face occupies 70-80% of the photo; frontal, vertically symmetric pose; eyes open, natural expression, closed mouth, face unobscured by hair, eyebrows/eyes/pupils visible; no headwear and no dark glasses, subject to two named exceptions each requiring its own supporting certificate (a registered religious community's certificate for a person wearing headwear per their faith's rules, provided the full face remains visible; a disability certificate for a person with a vision impairment photographed in dark glasses) and a general relaxation of the frontal/expression requirements for a child under 5, a person holding a disability certificate, or a person whose health condition prevents compliance. This document models only the base photo requirement; the two exception-specific supporting certificates are not separately modelled — see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 36 pkt 7; Art. 41"
    },
    {
      "id": "proofOfFeePayment",
      "label": "Dowód uiszczenia opłaty",
      "category": "payment",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "handling": "Proof that the passport fee has been paid. The fee is non-refundable once the application is submitted, even if the application is later withdrawn or refused.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 36 pkt 3; Art. 24"
    },
    {
      "id": "reducedOrExemptFeeProof",
      "label": "Dokument potwierdzający prawo do obniżonej opłaty albo zwolnienia z opłaty",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "claimsReducedOrExemptFee", "equals": true },
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "handling": "Documentary proof of entitlement to one of the Act's statutory reduced-fee or fee-exempt categories (see claimsReducedOrExemptFee). Not required for the two age-based reduced-fee categories (minors under 12, and 12-18), which the office can confirm from the applicant's own date of birth without separate proof.",
      "sourceRef": "Ustawa o dokumentach paszportowych, Art. 36 pkt 4"
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "eligibility",
      "title": "Citizenship eligibility",
      "fields": ["isPolishCitizen"],
      "transitions": [
        {
          "to": null,
          "exitReason": "not-eligible-non-polish-citizen",
          "when": { "field": "isPolishCitizen", "equals": false }
        },
        { "to": "applicant_details" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "applicant_details",
      "title": "Applicant details",
      "fields": ["nazwisko", "imiona", "dataUrodzenia", "miejsceUrodzenia", "plec", "pesel"],
      "next": "identity_corroboration"
    },
    {
      "id": "identity_corroboration",
      "title": "Supplementary identity data (if requested by the office)",
      "fields": ["nazwiskoRodowe", "poprzednieNazwiska", "imieOjca", "imieMatki", "nazwiskoRodoweMatki", "nazwiskoRodoweOjca"],
      "next": "correspondence_and_contact"
    },
    {
      "id": "correspondence_and_contact",
      "title": "Correspondence address and optional contact details",
      "fields": ["correspondenceAddressLine", "correspondenceCity", "correspondencePostalCode", "numerTelefonuKontaktowy", "adresEmailKontaktowy"],
      "next": "fee"
    },
    {
      "id": "fee",
      "title": "Fee and supporting documents",
      "fields": ["claimsReducedOrExemptFee"],
      "next": "in_person_biometric_submission"
    },
    {
      "id": "in_person_biometric_submission",
      "title": "In-person submission at a passport office: personal attendance at any wojewoda passport office or, abroad, a Polish consulate by e-konsulat appointment, where the office fills the electronic application from the data above plus registry data, collects fingerprints of both index fingers (skipped only for a person under 12 or from whom fingerprint collection is physically impossible), and captures the applicant's signature on its own electronic-signature device; the applicant then receives a confirmation-of-submission receipt naming the issuing office and pickup location. No independently supplied fields.",
      "fields": []
    }
  ]
}