• you participate in the development or supervision of the implementation of programs implemented within EU activities or other international assistance programs, or you conduct training related to these programs;
• you are a foreign language teacher or teach in a foreign language in a kindergarten, school, teacher training institution or college of social services workers, referred to in the Act of 14 December 2016 - Education Law;
• you are a member of the NATO armed forces or civilian personnel of a state-party to the treaty, performing work in international military structures in Poland;
• you are seconded to Poland to implement an armament programme carried out under an agreement to which Poland is a party;
• you are a journalist - foreign correspondent accredited at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• you participate in the performance or preparation of a musical, lyrical, stage, stage-musical, choreographic, pantomime work - up to 30 days per calendar year;
• you are participating in the creation or implementation of an audiovisual work – up to 30 days per calendar year;
• you give occasional lectures, presentations or talks – up to 30 days per calendar year;
• you perform work directly related to an international sporting event as a person assigned to that event by an international sports organisation, a foreign sports association or a foreign sports cor;
• you are an athlete who works for a sports cor based in Poland - up to 30 days in a calendar year;
• you are a clergyman, a member of a religious order or another person who in connection with the religious function performed, performs work:
  • in a church or religious association whose status is regulated by an international agreement or which operates on the basis of an entry in the register of churches and other religious associations,
  • in a legal person or organisational unit of a church or religious association whose status is regulated by an international agreement or which operates on the basis of an entry in the register of churches and other religious associations
  • in another entity based on a referral from the competent authority or legal person of a church or religious association whose status is regulated by an international agreement or which operates on the basis of an entry in the register of churches and other religious associations;
  • in a national interdenominational organisation with legal personality;
• you are a full-time student at a university that has been approved by the minister competent for internal affairs for the purpose of admitting foreigners or, if not subject to such obligation, has not had a decision on prohibition of admitting foreigners issued against it;
• you are studying and performing work within a work placement provided for in the study regulations at a university belonging to the Polish higher education and science system or in the curriculum
• you are a pupil performing work as part of vocational training provided for in the curriculum of a post-primary school belonging to the Polish education system; 
• you are a juvenile (i.e. a person aged 15 to 18) employed under an employment contract for vocational training purposes;
• you perform work under an EU education and training programme;
• you perform work as part of a professional internship or traineeship organised in cooperation with an international student organisation;
• you hold a visa issued for the purpose of participation in a cultural or educational exchange programme, humanitarian aid programme or working holiday programme, governed by an international agreement to which Poland is a party, and you are performing work under that programme;
• you are a participant in a governmental business internship programme addressed to Polish diaspora communities;
• you work as a research or research-technical employee at a research institute referred to in the Act of 30 April 2010 on research institutes;
• you have your place of residence abroad and were temporarily (up to 3 months in a calendar year) seconded by a foreign employer to Poland to carry out assembly, maintenance or repair work on technologically complete devices, structures, machines or other equipment, if their manufacturer is the foreign employer, or to collect equipment, machines, other equipment or parts ordered and produced by a Polish entrepreneur, or to train employees of the Polish employer who is a recipient of devices, structures, machines or other equipment, in the scope of their operation or use, or to carry out assembly, dismantling or operation of trade fair stands, if the exhibitor is a foreign employer.
• you work for a Member of the European Parliament in connection with their function;
• you are a citizen of Turkey and have acquired rights arising from Decision 1/80 of the Association Council of the Republic of Turkey and the EEC (more information - open link);
• you practise the profession of toctor or dentist, having the right to practise the profession on terms defined by the provisions of the Act of 5 December 1996 on the professions of toctor and dentist;
• you practise the profession of nurse or midwife, having the right to practise the profession granted or established in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 15 July 2011 on the professions of nurse and midwife;
• you practise the profession of paramedic, having the right to practise the profession in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 1 December 2022 on the profession of paramedic and the self-government of paramedics;
• practises the profession of physiotherapist, having the right to practise the profession in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 25 September 2015 on the profession of physiotherapist;
• you practise the profession of pharmacist, having the right to practise the profession in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 10 December 2020 on the profession of pharmacist;
• you perform work in the private tomestic service of a member of the diplomatic mission or consular post of a foreign state or other person equated with a member of the diplomatic mission or consular post on the basis of acts, international agreements or generally established international customs

⇒ visa issued for the purpose referred to in Art. 60 para. 1 points 3-10, 12-13b, 17-21 or 23-24b of the Aliens Act.

To perform work the visa toes not entitle issued: for tourism purposes; for the purpose of visiting family or friends; for the purpose of education or training in a form other than that specified in Art. 60 para. 1 points 9 or 10 of the Aliens Act; for the purpose of transit; for the purpose of medical treatment; for a purpose other than the principal purposes for which visas are issued. It is also not possible to work on the basis of a visa issued by another Schengen area state.