Amnesty for illegal immigrants in Poland

Amnesty for illegal immigrants in Poland Posted by Kasia on Dec 29, 2011 in Current News, Regulations

Thousands of illegal immigrants will be allowed to stay and work in Poland under an amnesty unveiled today that highlights the country’s transformation into a regional economic powerhouse from communist-era basket case.

Traditionally a country of emigration, Poland has become an increasingly attractive magnet for immigrants, especially from neighboring former Soviet republics such as Ukraine and Belarus, as it notches up high rates of economic growth.

Under the amnesty, economic migrants and unsuccessful asylum seekers will be able from January 1 to receive a resident card for two years that will allow them to work legally in Poland. Legalizing the immigrants will benefit the Polish economy by turning them into taxpayers.

The amnesty will apply to undocumented immigrants who arrived in Poland before December 20, 2007, and to asylum seekers who were denied refugee status before January 1, 2010, provided that they have continuously resided in Poland. The idea is to reach the largest number of foreigners in order to regularize this situation in the widest possible manner.

Most economic migrants entered Poland legally but overstayed their visas, officials say.

More than two thirds of the illegal immigrants in Poland are believed to live in Warsaw and the surrounding Mazowsze region. Some 7,000 of these people probably fulfill the criteria of the amnesty.

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About the Author: Kasia

My name is Kasia Scontsas. I grew near Lublin, Poland and moved to Warsaw to study International Business. I have passion for languages: any languages! Currently I live in New Hampshire. I enjoy skiing, kayaking, biking and paddle boarding. My husband speaks a little Polish, but our daughters are fluent in it! I wanted to make sure that they can communicate with their Polish relatives in our native language. Teaching them Polish since they were born was the best thing I could have given them! I have been writing about learning Polish language and culture for Transparent Language’s Polish Blog since 2010.

Comments:

baloch:

i have few question regarding the new amensty programme , i am a asylum seeker from balochistan and in june 2009 i have come to poland and applied for asylum in warsaw , and the staff of the asylum center issued a 1 month id card but i did not showed my face again to the asylum center because i was always scared if my asylum application is rejected then they will deport me back to pakistan where i can be tourterd of killed by pakistani security agencys . since june 2009 i am ilegall in poland , so i would like to know in the new amensty programme of poland , will i be too eligable to get the resident card or they will still count me as a normal asylum seeker . but as i said i entered in poland in june 2009 and requested for asylum and i have a 1 month id card which the asylum center issued for me and since that i am a illegaly staying in poland . thanks
baloch
md kutob uddin:

i was arrived in poland 11 Dec 2006. i was enter in poland student vissa so can i get ligalyti for me.
md matiur rahman:

my self in poland 10 oct in poland out from poland decmber 2006.but now i m in europ i can be get amenesty legal in poland tq rahman
Ice:

I enter the territory of Poland illigally without visa since 2006. Can i apply for amnesty?
ahmedopu:

somebody entered in poland without visa can he apply for amnesty? is this amenesty will finished untill 2th julay.or it will be longer?if anybody can not fulfill criteria of the amenesty could he apply for amenesty?

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