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jon357   
20 Jul 2017
Law / Why does Poland not have a repatriation office? [38]

It is an absurd experience

Yet thousands of people do this without difficulty. In addition, many people who have held public office in another country have no problems.

The usual difficulty is when citizenship has been either renounced or stripped.
jon357   
20 Jul 2017
Law / Why does Poland not have a repatriation office? [38]

More than one meaning of that word, and it's possible to do in your home country, wherever that is.

If you are eligible for this.

As a tourist, you should still be able to visit.
jon357   
20 Jul 2017
News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]

Nationalist is not always a positive thing, it depend on a context and a country,

It's never positive and is based on hatred, insecurity and exclusion.

Bandera and others are being introduced into the Ukrainian schools as their national heroes.

Of course. He was part of their independence struggle. He wasn't entirely positive, but as with Poland, Hungary, Russia, Myanmar, nationalist politics are never good.
jon357   
20 Jul 2017
Law / Child maintenance payment Ireland Poland, dad hiding. [8]

A Polish lawyer isn't the best idea here. In Ireland, someone can be jailed for not paying child support. This might be useful for you: citizensinformation.ie/en/birth_family_relationships/separation_and_divorce/maintenance_orders_and_agreements.html
jon357   
19 Jul 2017
News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]

a one track mind or a one pony trick.

Basically Kaczynski to a tee. Though he's now actually losing his mind, as demonstrated by yesterday's events in parliament.

His next step as party leader will probably be to remove Szydlo as PM and take the role on himself, thereby sealing the PiS junta's fate for ever.
jon357   
19 Jul 2017
Food / Want to Buy a Tandoor Oven in Poland [3]

Try this, it's the Indian community in Warsaw. There are certainly several Warsaw-based restaurateurs in the organisation who may be able to advise, no least because you're in Gdansk and therefore not a direct competitor: facebook.com/iap.info/
jon357   
19 Jul 2017
Study / About Polish-Japanese Academy [4]

Here's the website of the students' association there. There are quite a few international students, so they should be a source of good advice. Whether anyone's checking the contact email at this time of year is another issue: samorzad.pja.edu.pl
jon357   
19 Jul 2017
News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]

entire country.

It isn't in the 'entire country', is it... Just the bit that matters.

Nice to see you getting all riled up by the Polish pro-Democracy protestors as the PiS junta begins to fall.
jon357   
18 Jul 2017
Life / Cosmetic surgery in Poland... [40]

And you don't seem to take into account the law, that prices are equal, regardless of the nationality of the customer. General decency too. If any shop, clinic whatever charges a different price for the same service, avoid them, they are unscrupulous. If they're as untrustworthy as that, would you really want to be under a general anaesthetic on their premises?

Have you thought about the Polish people who work in the U.K., are often paid considerably less than the living wage.

Their wage would depend on the job they do. To discriminate on the grounds of nationality, colour etc is illegal there.

And btw, the Poles who have cosmetic surgery done at private clinics are rarely poor.
jon357   
17 Jul 2017
Study / About Polish-Japanese Academy [4]

PJAIT? It's got an extremely good reputation in its field, and some of their students have gone on to achieve great things. It's one of the longest running private educational institutions in Poland and has been offering Masters' and Doctorates for years.

It does well in the rankings too, despite offering a narrow and specialised range of courses.
jon357   
16 Jul 2017
News / Poles in work-life balance crisis [22]

b) their campaign was a load of horse hockey and they're mostly reaping the benefits of 8 years of PO rule...

Basically yes, the upturn in the Polish economy started to occur before the PiS junta seized power, not that the conservative PO were perfect. They're reaping the 'benefits' of a non-unionised low wage economy during a period where there is relocation to Poland in order to take advantage of free movement of goods and capital combined with lower wages and a lack of any sort of collective bargaining. That and a mass migration to the UK etc, removing a lot of the woes of large-scale unemployment.

Something which is basically storing up trouble for the future.
jon357   
15 Jul 2017
Classifieds / Can any Polish (Muslim) girl help me ? [30]

Your math is as faulty as your history. Why not just fess up to your mistakes and pack it in for the day, huh!

Exactly! That would be many many many times the population of the world!
jon357   
15 Jul 2017
Law / Appreciate feedback/attorney referral for Warsaw property for my uncle that passed intestate. [6]

I do not know why he never returned to Poland.

The immediate post-war period in Poland was a very difficult time, some of the returning soldiers, especially those from affluent or educated backgrounds were put in 'labour battalions' which were effectively prisons. Some were executed.

If that decision was incorrect can It now be reconsidered and corrected or is there a statute of limitations that would apply in these circumstances

If probate was signed off at the time, it might (and should be) be too late. You also need to consider that it's been someone's property now for three generations or more and they would be appalled at a distant relative (that they don't know or consider to be family) from another country trying to take it from their family on the basis of a pre-war will. Worth putting yourself in their shoes here.

And what would you do with these people's land if you actually got it back? Move to Poland and take up farming?
jon357   
14 Jul 2017
Life / Are there any Muslim areas in Poland? [173]

Here's their Facebook page. I noticed some interesting links on the left hand side that could be useful for Oncug: Facebook.com/pages/Meczet-Kruszyniany/182095521973262?fref=ts
jon357   
14 Jul 2017
Life / Are there any Muslim areas in Poland? [173]

Oncug will probably not have the chance to do that, before a short visit. It's always useful, however if someone's visiting for, say, a week, they're unlikely to learn more than please, thank you, how much, and the bill please. If that, since English is the lingua franca of hotels, restaurants, business etc. Besides, it would take a long time for someone to pick up any language well enough to converse at even the most basic level with someone like an octogenarian villager who speaks Podlasian dialect.

When I was in that Muslim area of Poland, I was with a friend who doesn't speak Polish at all (sadly despite living here for a decade) and he managed fine.
jon357   
14 Jul 2017
Classifieds / Can any Polish (Muslim) girl help me ? [30]

What woman would be stupid enough to be a muslim?

What moron would feel the need to write such a message online? You sound like a ray of sunshine. Not.
jon357   
14 Jul 2017
Life / Are there any Muslim areas in Poland? [173]

@Lyzko
Plenty of people in that area of Poland speak English reasonably well, and due to the Eighteenth Century wooden mosques that attract a lot of visitors, there is decent tourist infrastructure in those villages.

@oncug
You could contact these people, the Muslim community in Kruszyniany (Google it for pics of the mosque). There are plenty of places to stay round there, several restaurants serving traditional Polish Halal food and most of the residents round there are Muslims: kruszyniany.com.pl

The other village (not too far away) is Bohoniki, much the same: bohoniki.eu

You will probably need to put the websites through google translate or similar, however when you email them, it should be fine in English. They are certainly used to being contacted from outside Poland. You may need to wait for a reply, especially from Kruszyniany, since most of the people there are older.

This is the umbrella organisation for Islam in Poland, also worth contacting (many Tatars are dispersed round the country) and whoever checks the email certainly speaks English: mzr.pl