As of 30 September 2026, President Karol Nawrocki granted Polish citizenship to 62 foreigners, including 36 citizens of Ukraine, according to Interior Ministry (MSWiA) data obtained by Interia.
According to Interia’s findings, the ministry of internal affairs said the president may grant Polish citizenship to any foreigner if he deems it appropriate, and his constitutional competence is not limited by any conditions. This is a separate path from the procedure run by voivodes, through which most foreigners obtain citizenship.
62 Decisions, 36 for Ukrainians
Interior Ministry data show that from the start of his presidency to 30 September 2026, Karol Nawrocki used his prerogative in 62 cases. The largest group is citizens of Ukraine, with 36 people. The scale is small compared with how often citizens applying for citizenship use this route, and the president’s decisions concern a small share of applicants.
Interia also described the case of a Ukrainian woman whom the president denied citizenship and who, as she says, still does not know the reasons. Decisions in these cases are not publicly justified.
Background: Proposed Extension of the Procedure
Citizenship for Ukrainians is one of the threads of the president’s migration policy. In August 2025, Nawrocki vetoed an amendment to the act on assistance to citizens of Ukraine and announced his own bill, which would extend the citizenship granting process from three to ten years – we wrote about this in our article on the end of welfare for non-working Ukrainians. The president stressed at the time that granting citizenship is a presidential prerogative.
As of publication, the Chancellery of the President has not published its own summary of citizenship decisions or commented on the figures provided.
