No US Visa Waiver for Poles - 8/9/07

When are we voting this guy out??

So? Many Poles don't like the US anyway. They say that since it joined the Union they get better pay in European countries.

But even just for vacation or holiday / visiting family. Just stupid

Hillary Clinton & Barrack Obama will change everything...they love Polish people.

they do?

Neither of them will be elected. Obama isn't ready and Hilary is taking crap for Bills mistakes.

I want kucinich

Such BS.....I don't see why the Polish shouldn't have the waiver.....ridiculous if you ask me....Ranj

I thought the US and POland were allies?

The problem with that is that this is how the many of illegal immigrants enter the States, visiting on tourist visas then vanishing into society and working illegally. I'm not saying that Poles would only visit the States to stay and work but you have to see this from the prospectives of members sitting in Congress having read statistics from Europe regarding economic migration from Poland.

yeah, a real kiss-ass alliance

Other nationalities overstay their visa too. Too many illegal mexicans, muslims and others who deal with drugs and form gangs.
When the Polish people come, they work very hard. But they overstay their tourist visa, at which they're not suppose to work and the US goverment is not happy about this.

This is just stupid, I think maybe there was some truth to the film Idiocracy by Mike Judge! :)

Why should the Poles not have visas? The English always had to have them when traveling to Poland and when you watch Polish television we are reminded every single day about Polish Airman and what they did in the war from English airstrips. You bull now I am afraid to say!


Then they should be thrown out. Worst thing the British did was allowing the Poles to work here without visas.

Simply because too many Poles break the rules. I don't get the whole thing. Why is It so important ? Dollar is so weak that there's no sense to work there anymore. Tourism ? Most of people, who can afford that will get a visa without problems. Visiting relatives ? Make them come here and spend cash here, that's a better deal for us.

Look at Israelits. They need visas too but instead of crying about that they suck out cash, Bush only a week ago decided to give them $35 billion - that's exactly the same what we should do instead of making a mess out of some 3rd rate issue.


Worry about your job in Tesco ?

You should all understand that passports and visas are not important and that traveling is really overrated anyway. Many years ago I packed my bag and took my passport and went and visted my Uncle in South Africa. A few years ago, I took my family to Las Vegas to see my cousin, who lives there. More recently, I took my son to America and we went to New York and we went to the top of the Empire State Building. Last year we went to South Korea and liked it but after a while we headed back to the airport and took yet another plan as far as New South Wales in Australia and looked around the Sydney Opera House. If you ask me, a British passport and international travel is overrated like hell, just think about it, with a Polish passport you can all go for a day trip to Lithuania and do some shopping!! Bondi Beach? What can beat a day trip to Wroclaw?

Don't forget about that super duper 3 days trip to France. Just wow.

Not really, it was economic power linked to military power many years ago during empire building that created the divisions. I know that there were Dutch and Swedish (probably Danes too) in America in the early days but the English became dominant. The Poles are a slav people with close ties to the Russians and that is the sphere of influence like it or not. The British Queen is still the Head of State in Australia and Canada because of our mutual historic ties. The ties with New Zealand are still very strong indeed even though it is right round the other side of the world. I am jealous to hell, I want a Polish passport and want to hold my head up high. Nevada, Death Valley in Caafornia, Washington D.C. are all very overrated, a day trip to the salt mines at Wieliczka! Now you are talking!!


Four day trip and yes it was wonderful, stress free and cheap. I was in La Rochelle and I have been several times to Szczecin and I would not think twice if I was asked where I would prefer to live if I had to choose between the two.

I'd rather go to the overrated places.

How can you say this and then list a load of places that you have visited with the freedom of a British passport? At least us being British have the choice when Polish people do not have this choice!

me too !!!

That is exactly why Poles want British passports.

Does the US really get a lot of illegal _Polish_ immigrants? If anything, I want to me _to_ Poland.

Still gotta get the language down, though. Troche rozumiem.

Found this article.

I'm not sure about the accuracy though :/ Seems like a bit much.

I wouldn't touch It with a 10 foot pole.

Good decision. Stop getting yourself in trouble :)

So you base the sympathy to some country or people on where we can make more money?

Bush promised to drop the visa requirement for Polish people if the Poles helped out in Iraq war. They did help, and were the third biggest supplier of soldiers in the Coalition, right after the U.S. and the U.K.

Bush didn't back up his promise, and then the Poles said, "To heck with you, we won't continue to support a war on behalf of Israel. We're pulling out".

Now, I don't think there are any Poles fighting in Iraq.

I do not know about illegal Polish immigrants but there are plenty, espcially from Latin America.

I believe there are still around 900 troops still in Iraq.


I don't think he promised their entry into the VWP, but he did promise to work with congress. Whether he did or not will be a mystery. From what I understood, congress was in favor.... I won't deny him being a liar though :)