In Poland there's a rule that foreigners need to be in Poland for 185 days a year to be able to get their driver's license. I knew that, but I didn't know that you can take the exam only after 185 days have passed. I thought that being registered and having proof that I was going to say for that amount of time was enough. Turns out it isn't.
Ok.
So now if I want to take the exam before April (and I might want to because MAYBE, but no one's so sure about that, there'll be big changes in the theory exam from January 2013) I need to proof that I have been in PL for 185 days before I take the exam.
People keep telling and writing that I can proof that with a visa or residence card. We're in 2012. Poland has been a EU member for 8 years - what the hell is a visa?! They don't give out residence cards to EU citizens either. We get a "confirmation of residence registration of a European Union citizen" and then we can register at the local authorities. And we only have to do that if we stay longer than 3 months without leaving the country. I could live for a whole year, go somewhere for a day every three months and be fine. There's no way to proof either.
I asked at four places about the 185 days. Do they need to have passed by the time I take the exam? By the time I come to pick up my driver's license? The lady in my driving school's office claimed that I shouldn't have been able to sign up for the course before the 185 days
That's where I asked first and then I was like "Are you sure? And how can I proof the stay?". She gave a vague answer and told me to ask at the authority where they give out driver's licenses. I asked again "So you don't know exactly, right?" she got all angry "This has nothing to do with me not knowing exactly!!!" Wtf? What's so impossible about saying "Yes, I'm sorry. That's a pretty special case, we don't get a lot of foreigners here."Anyway, I went and asked at the place where they give out the licenses and the woman there had no idea, called someone and told me that 185 days on the day I take the exam. But she didn't really know how I can proof my stay either. She told me to ask at that same authority she works for, but in my district
RIGHT! Because in different districts they have different rules. Tthat makes so much sense! Obviously she had no idea and didn't want to deal with me. My boyfriend's dad couldn't stop laughing when I told him. I didn't go there because... what's the point? I went home and called the place where they have the state exams. I got to talk to the boss and he said that I can even take the exam before the 185 days have passed. "How long before?" "Oh, well... not that long" (what kind of answer is that?!) and he told me that my boyfriend's parents could write me a document saying that I lived with them... and that would be an accepted proof.
You think that's easy? HA! This is Poland, nothing is easy.
If we made a contract, they'd have to pay taxes from whatever rent I pay them. If we don't have a contract and they say I live here for free... seeing as I'm not a family member, the rent that should pay but don't counts as my income. Income that I'd have to pay taxes for. That doesn't make sense to you? Yeah, neither to me nor to anyone else that's not the Polish tax office. I think the rules are something like they take prices of places comparable to the one you live in, and that's you 'theoretical rent', ie your 'income' that you have because you don't pay. Get it? Yeah, me neither. On some Polish message boards someone wrote "Logically, if you have sex with your girlfriend - you don't pay for that either. If you were to go to a prostitute you'd pay. They should tax that too!"
I read about someone else that they didn't even accept the registration, but only the date that's in the confirmation of registration-paper. Well mine happens to be from 2008
and that paper doesn't really proof anything.I think I'll take the confirmation of registration and either call the state exam place again or go there directly and ask. Aahaha. If I can't do anything with it, I'll just wait until April to take the exams
The changes might come or they might not. Even if it's more difficult I guess it's still possible to pass.