Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


Agriculture and forestry have special rules at the moment. This is temporary.


There's no legal basis for that anywhere in the EU.


Is it a small town by any chance? And do you think someone was trying for a bribe to sort it all out?

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]

This is true. Mcm1 has said or at least implied though, in another thread about buying property, that he's from the UK. There shouldn't be any problem in buying a house unless he actually means a farm.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


This is absolutely incorrect. Somebody is seriously misinforming you.

Travel / In last place was Polish airline LOT [22]


Not in the slightest. Firstly the BA/Virgin results are for short haul only - for long haul they're both in mid-table, secondly there's no connection between any of those companies and thirdly there's no reason to suspect the testing was anything other than rigorously honest.

For the record, it looks like the two areas that let LOT down are Continuous Descent Violations and that their aircraft are not Chapter 4 compliant (the link below explains those terms - they were new to me too). It looks like those are measurable criteria. So nothing suspicious.

heathrowairport.com/static/Heathrow_Noise/Downloads/PDF/fly_quiet_q3_2013.pdf

Travel / In last place was Polish airline LOT [22]

Check this out. BA 168 gbp, LOT 188 gbp.

Momondo, 23 Nov 30 Nov

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]


Doesn't fit with your earlier comment:


According to the authorities of the day, even. Though I wouldn't rule out anything - we'll never know and we have no reliable source material.

You have an interesting understanding of the word 'probably'...

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]


No. saying you agree with a death is not the same as killing someone.


That's the standard theological line.


This is what we don't know, probably never will and oughtn't to rely on the gospels for.

Travel / In last place was Polish airline LOT [22]


A lot depends on what, when, how. I think we had this discussion before when you bought those tickets (which are indeed good value). I fly a lot (no pun intended) and always check LOT first. On the routes I need, they're occasionally cheaper but nearly always more expensive - sometimes drastically so. They're good for long haul though and generous with upgrades.

Travel / In last place was Polish airline LOT [22]


I wonder what you think is 'fishy'. There's no reason that LOT in particular should be at the top of the noise league in an independent test unless that's what the results came out as.

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]


Yes. Do you blame all of them?


Or him either for that matter.

To repeat, do you blame them as a whole (including those who weren't even in the same town)?

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]

No they didn't. An angry crowd did. Not 'the Jews'. Some of them in fact rather liked him.

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]

I think the Romans had a little to do with it, being in charge and all that.

Not that TV Trwam likes to blame Rome for anything at all ;-)

Travel / In last place was Polish airline LOT [22]


It's mostly to do with the age of their fleet. They have those new Boeings (the ones that don't work very well) but those aren't on their Heathrow routes.

Genealogy / Help needed about my Polish surname, Dobbert. [73]


It's an excellent resource and more than a few generations back there's a strong chance that someone else has done the work and is sharing their findings.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


It's quite common for them to be destroyed or damaged, unfortunately.


Indeed.

Work / Living in Katowice (programmer, 3000 PLN) - is it enough? [65]


Wait a minute.....






That isn't really "enough" is it, if a couple can only afford to rent a room in someone else's home, can't pay for health insurance and can't afford to go out. Like something from the Great Depression.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


Well.....

There's a pretty wide choice of media outlets with a very wide range of editorial views. Some are more popular than others. People will buy/watch/listen to whatever they prefer.

Surely you aren't just complaining that not all TV stations share your own views on issues like the Smolensk accident?

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


I wonder why that is.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


The guy who chained himself to the speaker's chair a while back.


I'm not sure why you think a university being American is any recommendation, but great that these guys gave their time for free....

Unfortunately they wasted it and possibly their reputations too, not least because of some of Macierewicz and the Smolenskists crazier stunts.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


Or perhaps just gave news, not tasteless speculation.

Food / Prices of decent Polish Vodka in Poland? [15]

The vodka seems a little expensive, the whisky seems cheap: alleceny.pl/kategoria/87/Alkohole_i_papierosy

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


No. It was possible to buy real estate before 2004, also. Albeit with some surreal restrictions, some of them to do with borders and military installations.


Very good advice.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]

There's certainly something fishy here - the whole thing doesn't add up at all.


This is a total irrelevance. An EU citizen can buy a house without any of that stuff. My other half bought some land this year (in the same Powiat as the OP) without being an EU citizen and not having a Polish passport for similar reasons to those the OP mentions about his wife.

None of this is remotely relevant. Thousands of people are in that situation and ability to sort out paperwork has nothing to do with one's parents' life history.


This is very likely as is the possibility/probability we/they are not getting the whole story. Either the OP isn't mentioning something, or some local characters are taking advantage of their naivete and are holding out for the usual.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


This is odd too.

By the way, you do realise don't you that you need to do the paperwork at: rzeszow.uw.gov.pl/urzad-wojewodzki/wydzialy-puw/wydzial-sp raw-obywatelskich-i-cudzoziemcow.html (if you're in Krosno in Podkarpackie)

You don't say which Krosno - I listed the office for the biggest one.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


Sorry but this just doesn't ring true. I appreciate there's a problem and it's a source of stress for you, but from your posts, something doesn't sound right.

Firstly. A zameldowanie is nothing to do with nationality or citizenship. If you have the deeds (Akt Notarialny) to your home, you just go to the office and get it. I don't think they can refuse. Even if you're a Martian.

Secondly. They may well want to give your wife a Polish ID card (dowod osobisty) but there's no reason why you should go along with this - your wife and yourself (if you're an EU citizen) are entitled to the normal cards for residency. Are you sure you've gone to the right office? You need to get this from the:


Neither of these things has anything to do with what nationality someone's father was. I think they are messing you about. Are you doing this in a small town by any chance?

Life / Cigarette prices in Poland [27]


Cheap. About 7 quid for 50g of Golden Virginia.


Lots of brands, inc Golden Virginia and Drum.

itabak.pl/index.php?c=230&p=446&Tyto%C5%84%20pap.Golden%20Virginia%2050g
- this isn't a list of retail prices, it's all online however it shpould give you a clue.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


That would, as ever, be sensible.

Even a conviction for a serious crime while in PL isn't enough.


This suggests terrorism or politics and I've never heard of it being used.


Exactly. I wonder if they understand that you can live anywhere in the EU, The way the guy writes in English suggests he may be foreign though or not especially confident with paperwork.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]

This whole thing doesn't add up. If they're British Citizens, what would their parentage have to do with anything? We're all in the EU now and Polish ancestry doesn't make one whit of difference - in fact most British people who register as resident and get the ID card don't have an ancestral connection. Many have stronger connections than ancestry (like living, marrying and working there for a long time) but equally many just turn up and register.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


They can't if you're from the UK


Even if you're Jack the Ripper they can't.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


No. You do not need either. You just need o register as Dominic B says.

BTW, if you own your home, you have no problem getting a zameldowanie.

Polish (or any other) parentage is an irrelevance. Your UK passport is the most important.