SWIM is very interested in this but doesn't want to be told 7 different things by 7 different people working at the same government office. Can anybody please suggest the most reliable source for accurate details of this amnesty?
''About 70,000 foreigners are living in Poland illegally according to national statistics.
Poland has passed two similar abolition acts in 2003 and 2007, as a result of which, approximately 4,500 foreigners legalized their stay in the country. ''
If I were an illegal immigrant I would be very careful the odds of you getting amnesty do not look great
Eventually, but not immediately. Usually between 'Illegal' and 'Citizen' there is the state of 'permission to remain' or something similar.
Not to long ago the Italians gave a whole bunch of French speaking African's some special visa that allows travel in the EU, knowing fine well that they would immediately bugger off to France. Which they did. So the UK isn't always the final destination either.
you are absolutely spot on however Trevek was asking whether in theory they ought to be able to go to the UK and the answer appears to be a resounding yes
if you are an illegal, speak Polish and are settled, what point is there to go to the UK if you are a student who overstayed their visa, hustling just to survive (excuse the 1970s US ghetto parlance) and speaking English, you might be better off in Blighty
Thanks for your advice. I'm actually looking for a way to follow this new law. I've found myself in this very position because of bureaucratic bungles and all I want is a clear, accurate source of official information as was my request in my initial post.
I cannot guarantee if the embassy will be able to give you the info you seek as it is usually manned by little old ladies who are not exactly human dynamos
however if you get a particularly answer from the Nigerian embassy, you can always pretend to be Ghanian (if that is what people from Ghana are called) and call their embassy to see if the stories match.
Yes, one would think so. Could you possibly post a link to where said officials release such information. As much as I enjoy going to the same office five times, speaking to five different people and getting five different stories.... I just want to find official written information online about this. If anybody could please direct me to such a place I'd really appreciate it.
What a lazy shiftless git I must be for having trawled through endless pages of internets, spoken to countless people about my problem and finally reached out to people on a forum to people that may know a thing or two.
But alas, a raw nerve has been hit and my head is hanging in shame. What nerve I must have, straight to hell for me it would seem.
karta-pobytu.pl/abolicja-dla-cudzoziemcow-podpisana-przez-prezydenta/ - I reposted but the previous link works on my computer- so it must be something different
there are some restrictions in the law - you have to fullfil one of their conditions - you can apply if you stay in Poland since 2007 (if you have some passport stamp or some other document to prove the entry before 2007) there are two other possibilities - if you stay since the beggining of 2010 and was issued a denial to stay and declared eligible for extradition before the date (january 1st 2010) or if there is another application process going on in your name since at least 01.01.2010
the abolition means that you are allowed to stay in Poland for a time of two years - the start is on 01.01.2012 I guess - in that time you should try to sort your things with the immigration office
''About 70,000 foreigners are living in Poland illegally according to national statistics.
yes? i can tell you that similarly started Serbian problems with Kosovo. EU then turned it in our tragedy (because EU likes to see Slavs in misery). Many already speak of Polish Kosovo scenario. Beware brotherly Poles.
hythorn: ''About 70,000 foreigners are living in Poland illegally according to national statistics. yes? i can tell you that similarly started Serbian problems with Kosovo. EU then turned it in our tragedy (because EU likes to see Slavs in misery). Many already speak of Polish Kosovo scenario. Beware brotherly Poles.
do you think the illegal immigrants in Poland might want their own breakaway state?
Weren't they citizens of the country, but just the wrong flavour?
Some were, most not. Well flavors differ from region to region. What would you think about let's say 1 million of illegal Arab immigrants in Scotland that want independence and claim the greenest meadows of Scotland to be their land ?
@Natasa Are you asking me as an Australian? In which case the answer would be that.... I'd probably try and sell it to them.
But Hythorn is right, there would be a lots of mumping and moaning, but I doubt that there'd be blood in the streets. That's a more continental way of resolving things. That and blocking ports and burning things. And, we'd never hear the bloody end of it from the Daily Mail.
And I think you're over simplifying thousands of years of complex history and fluid borders. No? Or did they all really turn up one day and demand it?
NEVER MAKE THEM CITIZENS PLEASE!!!!... DO what dubai does it has never given anybody else citizenship , think about humanity please. Learn do the Saudi money and oil more important than anything ?
