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I am married to a Polish citizen. How can I get residency? [36]
All this seems to me that the Polish authorities are getting their own back. Sorry to say this Geoff, but in a way I'm glad to hear it! It's politics; nothing personal. Today I sometimes travel between Poland and UK, and much more frequently during the 1990s, by coach.
Every single time I entered the UK via Dover, the Poles were treated at that border post like total crap. One example out of many I personally witnessed: a Polish woman doctor who provided documentary proof that she prepaid for a course to learn English language in UK, and had prepaid accommodation arranged by that language school (I craned my neck to see the documents, and I noted 'Churchill House School of English'), she was grilled by the receptionist (the so-called immigration 'officer') who asked "why do you need to learn English when you are already a doctor in Poland?" A typical unanswerable question. On that 'basis' she was deported. Yes I'm angry at that even now. Your country did that to us for sssooo long, and when we do the same to you, you don't like it. On a personal level it isn't justified for you; understandable. It's how it is. If it was up to me I'd be happy to let you in, if on the basis of what you said above is correct.