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Polish citizen to be forced to serve foreign military [5]
I am seeking help, maybe someone can give me an idea of what I should do? I am going to Polish embassy next week, do I have the right to ask for some sort of protection , or at least make sure I am not receiving penalties for exercising foreign citizenship because its not a free will.
I'm not an expert on such issues but I think the general rule is that when one is a dual citizen (of countries x & y) country x treat you as you were only a citizen of x once the person is on the territory of x and the same goes for y, so when you are a citizen of Estonia and a permanent resident of Estonia, they have a right to treat you as any other Estonian citizen and I don't think Poland has anything to say here, If the Estonian gov was persecuting you in some way, perhaps then you could seek help of Poland but obligatory military service is not such a case of course...
In case of Polish permission for serving in foreign armies... I don't think it is relevant for dual citizens serving in the army of their "2nd country", It's rather for Polish citizens, who want to serve in foreign armies, without being citizens of those countries, so for example France (foreign legion) or USA (they allow green card holders to serve in their military), generally the permission is a quite new thing, in 90's or 00's people with dual citizenship were allowed/obliged to serve in the military of the country they were permanently residing in (so for example a dual Polish-French citizen was obliged to do a military service in Polish army just like other Poles If he was living permanently in Poland and in French army If he lived over there, then Poland had nothing to do with it, at least that's how it looked like in practice) and people holding only Polish citizenship were not allowed to serve in any other army, in result there were cases of for example Polish foreign legion soldiers being arrested once on holidays back in Poland, which was a controversial thing as they were serving in the allied army, hence the law was changed and said permission became an opportunity to legally serve in foreign armies of allied/friendly countries... So you can ask the embassy but most probably they will tell you that you don't have to bother with any permission.
So to sum it up, having a Polish citizenship seems to be a non-issue in your case, it won't help you or harm you in any way... If you find spending 6 months in the army very problematic, try to go around it the same way as locals do... there must be some ways, in Poland military service was obligatory until few years ago, however there were quite many ways to legally avoid it.
