Embassy of Poland in New Delhi

Indian-resident applicants for a Schengen visa to Poland — tourism, family visits, business travel, conference and cultural visits — file through the Poland Visa Application Centres operated by VFS Global. Decisioning happens at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland at 50-M Shantipath in the Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave. The Embassy's jurisdiction covers the northern, central, eastern and Himalayan Indian states (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi NCR, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh), with the western and southern Indian states handled by the Consulate General in Mumbai. The Embassy is also one of Poland's most regionally-extensive accreditation hubs in Asia — covering Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka by accreditation. Applicants in those countries route their visa intake through the local VFS Poland centre where available, or through direct contact with the Embassy in New Delhi for the more remote accredited countries. The Embassy houses the chancery, the consular section for Polish nationals across the region, and the migration section handling long-stay Polish national visa (Type D) applications under Poland's work and study permit frameworks. Bilateral context: Poland-India relations have grown substantially since the mid-2000s, anchored on Indian IT-services (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL all maintain Polish operations primarily in Warsaw, Krakow and Wrocław, contributing to the major Polish IT-services delivery cluster), industrial machinery (Polish equipment exports to the Indian heavy industry and mining sectors), automotive components (the Polish automotive supply chain has growing ties to Indian Tata and Mahindra-platform component supply), defence-and-aerospace cooperation (the Polish defence industry's exports to India), and agricultural commodities (Indian buyers of Polish dairy, meat and processed foods). The Indian-origin community in Poland is small but growing — concentrated in Warsaw and Wrocław around the IT-services delivery centres and the substantial growth in Polish-Indian higher education ties at the major Polish technical universities (the Warsaw University of Technology, AGH Krakow and Wrocław University of Science and Technology).

The Consular Section serves the Polish national community across the consular district — registered Polish residents in India number in the low hundreds, with substantial inbound business and tourism flow several times higher. The Polish consular community in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives and Afghanistan adds limited additional numbers but represents a wide geographic operational scope for the Embassy. The full Polish consular pipeline runs from New Delhi: passport renewal and biometric passport issuance, Polish national ID-card issuance, civil-status notification to the Polish Civil Register of births and marriages abroad, voter registration for Polish parliamentary and European Parliament elections, notarial certifications, apostille issuance for Polish-issued documents to be used in India under the Hague Apostille Convention, and emergency consular assistance for Polish nationals in detention, hospitalisation, victims of crime, repatriation or bereavement across the broad accredited region.

Polish foreign direct investment in India is modest by global standards but growing, particularly in IT-services delivery, defence-and-aerospace cooperation and industrial machinery. Indian outbound FDI into Poland is substantially larger and growing rapidly — the major Indian IT-services groups (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Cognizant, Tech Mahindra) all operate substantial Polish delivery centres primarily in Warsaw, Krakow and Wrocław, making Poland one of the top European delivery-centre destinations for the Indian IT-services industry. Indian pharmaceutical and generics groups have also established Polish marketing and distribution operations. The Embassy supports both directional investment flows.

Cultural and educational programming runs through the Embassy Cultural Section, the Polish Institute Delhi (Instytut Polski), the Indo-Polish academic-research partnerships, and the substantial flow of Indian students to Polish universities (the Warsaw University of Technology, the Jagiellonian University Krakow, AGH Krakow, the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, the Medical University of Warsaw, the Medical University of Lublin and several other Polish technical and medical universities draw substantial Indian cohorts — particularly in medicine and engineering disciplines). The Embassy hosts the Polish Constitution Day reception on 3 May and supports Polish artistic programming at Indian cultural venues. The Chopin musical heritage and the Polish classical-music exchange with Indian conservatories support the substantive cultural flow.

Schengen short-stay visa appointments are booked through the VFS Global Poland India portal. National long-stay visa applications are also filed at the same VFS network with decisioning at the Embassy. Polish passport, ID-card, civil-status and consular appointments are booked through the e-Konsulat portal or directly through the Embassy. Phone enquiries route through the switchboard +91 11 4149 6904 / +91 11 4149 6992 during office hours; the third line +91 11 4149 6975 is available 14:00–15:30 only. Email enquiries: newdelhi.consul@msz.gov.pl. Out-of-hours emergencies route through the Polish MFA Emergency Service in Warsaw on +48 22 523 80 00, available 24 hours.