Quoting: dondonf
To get Polish driving license you need to go to communication division of Urzad Dzielnicy and have with you:
1) Filled out application form (you will get it from them)
2) 1 photo (left semi profile, like you get for residency card)
3) sworn translation of your driving license
4) registration confirmation
5) residency card / passport
You will have to pay 71 PLN.
They work from 8:00 to 16:00 from Tuesday to Friday, and on Mondays from 10:00 to 18:00
When your Polish driving license will be ready you will have to live them your DL (from your country, they will send it back to home country)
Usually, whole the process will take up to 3 months.
And that is why I will never apply for a Polish licence. With respect, there is no way I would relinguish my UK licence for everybody, as our standards are......somewhat higher than the standards demanded by your government.
No offence meant people - but I earnt that licence the hard way by learning to drive on British roads. The legal point is mute, as a British licence for a Britain settled in Poland is null and void - so I would happily get a Polish licence but I must be able to keep my British licence for when I travel to Britain. For obvious reasons a driver can only hold one licence but there are lots of ways round that problem anyway still apparently.
My view is nothing to do with nationalism - the Polish authorities could even do a communist trick, and hand me my British licence at the airport, but as said, no way am I driving overseas on a Polish licence - as it is not very favourably recieved in my local car hire firm.............
Whoever wrote when in Poland do as the Poles do wasn't interested in empowering everybody and reminding them that communism is dead and the battle is won, and now the small things are the things that really matter and are worth doing battle for.
For example, your transport registration department are communist through and through and can kiss my royal arse.