Warsaw Poland, Residency as a Foreigner | Quilted Twins

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When you live in a country where you aren't a citizen, you have to have permission to live there (legally, that is).
I have a "karta pobytu" - temporary residency card here in Poland. I've had a temporary one ever since we started getting them! My husband has a long term one - it's confusing to me - OK?
Don't ask.
Mine has been good for 3 years but this year I need to renew it. We had to make an appointment with the agency where we had to turn in our paperwork - we started making an effort to get a date back in February. Due to our own ignorance and a full schedule, the soonest we were able to get it was for April 10.
What kinds of paperwork do we need?
Well, this type of thing
proof that I am "still" married
This one is the strangest thing - How do you prove you are still married? If you wanted to cheat the system and stay in spite of a divorce, all you'd have to do is get your marriage license translated and tell them it is current - since I'm pretty sure they don't actually physically take your marriage license from you if you were to get a divorce. Anyway...that one leaves me shaking my head.
proof that I have health insurance
That's not so hard. We get our insurance company to say we have insurance.
proof that I have enough money to live on
proof that I have a place to live
They have something called a "zamedowania" or a piece of paper saying that you have the right to live in the house where you live (or some other place that is your official place of residency).
a list of all my trips out of the country in the last 5 years (dates/where I went) That can be tricky. Have you tried "reading" the stamps in your passport? We started writing down my trips out a few years back - makes this much easier.
pictures
These are similar to the ones you need for a passport - but different.
payment of about $130
But we had to make an appointment and go and turn in all those documents to a person who makes sure they are all "okay". We got a slot for Tuesday at 10:10 am. My current "karta" expires in May but I doubt I will get the new one in time before this one expires. The lady told us possibly July.
On our way to the appointment where we had to turn in the paperwork, I saw lots of buildings.
Of course. I got a few pictures for you!