Filing your E-2 visa at the U.S. Embassy Warsaw

Emails over 50 MB are rejected. Warsaw states the remedy directly: split the attachments across two emails rather than compressing them.

That instruction is worth following literally, because the intuitive fix is the wrong one. Compressing scans to squeeze under a size cap degrades exactly the documents an officer needs to read — bank statements, contracts, certificates. Warsaw would rather receive two clean emails than one degraded attachment.

ZIP files are not an alternative. Do not send attachments in a ZIP archive.

Documents are organised into seven tabs, A through G, scanned as PDFs with each file named for its tab. Send them to NIVdocsWrw@state.gov.

One PDF per tab, named for that tab, is the same pattern Seoul and Istanbul use. It exists so the reviewing officer can open the section they want without paging through a combined document, and a package that arrives as one merged file defeats it.

Two hundred pages is room to make a full case without editing against a cap, which changes what preparation looks like. At Madrid or Lisbon, both capped at 50, the work is compression. At Warsaw it is selection — the limit is high enough that the discipline has to come from you rather than from the post.

That freedom is easy to misuse. A 200-page package of thin material reads worse than a 60-page package of strong material, and no post rewards volume for its own sake.

We score Warsaw a 1 for third-country nationals, the lower end of our scale. The score describes willingness to schedule an appointment, not eligibility for approval.

An applicant without a Polish tie should compare their country of residence before committing here.

There is no single total. The MRV fee is fixed, published and tied to your DS-160. Preparation costs vary with the case: business plan and projections, document assembly, certified translations where documents are not in English, and attorney fees where counsel is involved.

Warsaw is an email post, so there is no printing, binding or courier cost. Check the current published MRV fee before you pay.

The Department of State publishes current appointment wait times by post, and that is the figure to check rather than any fixed estimate. Any post-interview administrative processing sits on top of it and is not uniform across applicants.

The E-2 is a nonimmigrant treaty investor visa open to nationals of countries holding a qualifying treaty of commerce with the United States, and Poland is one of those treaty countries. You must have invested, or be actively in the process of investing, a substantial amount of your own at-risk capital in a real and operating U.S. business that you will direct and develop, and the commitment must be irrevocable.

The enterprise must be at least 50 percent owned by persons holding the treaty nationality, or controlled by a qualifying national. A Polish applicant’s own eligibility does not survive a non-treaty partner holding the majority stake.

One distinction to settle early: the E-2 is investment-based but offers no green card path, unlike EB-5, and it requires none of the prior corporate employment the L-1 does.