Polish PESEL number application
Poland’s national identification number – required for banking, property purchase, healthcare, registering a business and almost every formal dealing with Polish authorities.
- Registered in the Polish population register
- Required for banking and property transactions
- Application prepared and filed by us
- Handled entirely in English
Request this document
Tell us what you need and we will come back to you within one business day with the exact price and timeline.
What we need from you
- Full name, date and place of birth
- Citizenship and passport number
- The reason you need a PESEL
- Polish address if you have one
- Delivery address
What PESEL is
PESEL is Poland’s eleven-digit personal identification number. It encodes the date of birth and sex, and it is the key that Polish institutions use to identify a person in official systems: tax, health, banking, property, courts.
It is not proof of citizenship or residence. Foreigners can and do hold one, and increasingly need to.
Who can get one
A PESEL is issued where there is a legal basis. The most common grounds for people living abroad: owning property in Poland, inheriting Polish assets, employment or business activity, registering for tax, opening a Polish bank account, and confirmation of Polish citizenship.
The application must state the basis and the provision of law behind it. Applications that simply ask for a number without one are refused, which is the usual reason a self-filed request comes back rejected.
What you need it for in practice
Signing a notarial deed for Polish property; paying property tax; being entered in the land register as an owner; claiming an inheritance; applying for a Polish passport after citizenship confirmation; and dealing with ZUS in pension matters.
Notaries in particular will often refuse to proceed without one, which is why an inheritance case frequently begins with a PESEL application rather than with the estate itself.
What we need from you
Full name, date and place of birth, parents’ names, citizenship and passport details, the Polish address if there is one, and the reason you need the number. Where the basis is property or inheritance, the supporting documents that establish it.
What can go wrong
People who lived in Poland at any point — including children who left decades ago — may already have a PESEL without knowing it. Applying for a second one creates a duplicate that has to be untangled later. We check the register first; confirming an existing number is faster and cheaper than a new application.
From your request to the document in your hand
You deal with us, we deal with Polish bureaucracy.
Send us the details
Tell us what you need and who the record concerns. Five minutes, in English.
We contact the authority
Our specialists deal with the relevant Polish office, registry or archive on your behalf.
Certified and legalised
We obtain the certified document and, if you asked for it, apostille and sworn translation.
Delivered to your door
Original by tracked courier, digital scan the moment it is issued.
Before you order
Who can get a PESEL?
Anyone with a legal basis – property ownership, employment, a Polish bank account, inheritance proceedings and several other grounds.
Is PESEL the same as a tax number?
No. PESEL identifies a person in official records; NIP identifies a taxpayer.
Do I need to be in Poland?
No.