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Joined: 23 Feb 2012 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 22 Feb 2019
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Posts: Total: 160 / Live: 32 / Archived: 128 		From: Gdańsk
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Ziutek   
23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

Your assumption is wrong.

It's not an assumption. You wrote

Well, as he is clearly guilty any independent judge worth his salt would found him guilty.

The logical inference is that any judge who doesn't find him guilty is not worth his salt. As noted above, a future government could decide that any judge who didn't find

Beata Szydło guilty of breaking the constitution was not worth their salt and take appropriate action against them. Would you be happy with that?
Ziutek   
23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

@kondzior
It's exactly the sort of issue that should be concerning the EU. The single market relies on a common regulatory framework. Any regulatory framework

relies on the rule of law. Therefore, if the rule of law is threatened, as the EU believes it is in Poland, the single market is threatened.
Ziutek   
23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

@Ironside
Your approach is to start from the obvious guilt of certain individuals and proceed from there. PiS will not govern forever. How would you feel if a future

government decided that Beata Szydło was obviously guilty of unconstitutional behaviour in not publishing the judgements of the Constitutional Tribunal and punished her without a trial? If what is obvious to one person were obvious to all, there would be not need of a court system at all.
Ziutek   
21 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

The system starts from the impartiality of the judge and uses that to assess the guilt of the suspect.
It doesn't start from the guilt of the suspect and use that to assess the impartiality of the judge.
Ziutek   
21 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

Well, as he is clearly guilty any independent judge worth his salt would found him guilty.

Either you write political satire in your spare time or you have entirely failed to understand how a justice system is actually supposed to work.
Ziutek   
8 Nov 2017
Language / First Year Polish Second Edition Revised and Expanded - Oscar E. Swan (White Cover) [13]

You can find that extract in the white covered book in Google books:
books.google.pl/books?hl=pl&id=UkOAAAAAIAAJ&dq=pas%2C+mapa%2C+karp%3B+ten%2C+kot%2C+data%3B+kura%2C+oko%2C+rok+swann+polish&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=pas%2C+mapa%2C+karp%3B+ten%2C+kot%2C+data%3B+kura%2C+oko%2C+rok

It looks like it is the same as in your copy.
Ziutek   
17 Sep 2017
Law / Poland's citizenship by descent question. Polish great-great grandfather arrived in the USA as a kid. [76]

The basic principle is that if your parent is a Polish citizen when you are born, you are also a Polish citizen. You don't have to apply for citizenship - you already have it. All you need to do is have it confirmed if there is any doubt. Obviously, people born before the foundation of the Second Republic are an edge case and there the rule was that if you had not other nationality but were settled in Poland in 1920 or born there you were Polish. I would guess, this means that Charles was not Polish because Karol was not a citizen when he was born ie the 1920 act was not retroactive (and Charles wasn't settled or born in Poland). Harry is right that Karol would probably have lost his citizenship through lack of military service in 1929, but Charles would have been an adult by then so this would not have affected him. However the key point seems to be that he was not born a citizen of Poland simply because at the time of his birth, it didn't exist.
Ziutek   
17 Sep 2017
Law / Poland's citizenship by descent question. Polish great-great grandfather arrived in the USA as a kid. [76]

As far as I understand it, the situation is as follows. Citizenship was assigned on the basis of the 1920 citizenship law, which said that anyone born on the territory of what had just become Poland, and had not taken citizenship elsewhere, was entitled to Polish citizenship. This would have applied to Karol until 1938, when he acquired US citizenship. Any of Karol's descendants born between 1918 and 1938 would also have had it. However, I don't think Charles would have benefited because he was born on foreign soil BEFORE Karol himself obtained Polish citizenship. I could be wrong and I think it is worth checking, because if you can establish that Charles had Polish citizenship and that it wasn't renounced in any subsequent generations, then your wife would also have it by descent.
Ziutek   
17 May 2017
Law / A parent born in Poland. Obtaining a Polish birth certificate? [38]

You are welcome.
Unfortunately I've just been to get my birth certificate registered and they wanted to retain the original, so if you want to keep yours you should get a new copy from your registry office in Australia.
Ziutek   
16 May 2017
Law / A parent born in Poland. Obtaining a Polish birth certificate? [38]

Yes, they will be enough. Bear in mind though, that to get your passport, you will still need a PESEL and to get that you will still need to get your birth certificate transcribed to the Polish registry. It's just that it's not necessary for confirmation of citizenship.

If by "apostille" you mean getting your Australian birth certificate certified for international recognition, I don't think it is necessary. Maybe the rules are different within the EU, but I didn't have to get it done. However, you will need a sworn translation ( łumaczenie przysięgłe).
Ziutek   
16 May 2017
Law / A parent born in Poland. Obtaining a Polish birth certificate? [38]

@Iza22
Thanks!
But you don't need to register your birth until after you get confirmation of citizenship and the same applies to the PESEL.
So all you need is:
a) your birth certificate and translation
b) your parents' birth certificates
c) your parent's marriage certificate and translation if they were married outside Poland.
As for having your documents apostilled, if you go to the office with the originals, they will copy them and give them back to you.
Ziutek   
12 Dec 2014
UK, Ireland / Best way to get boxes from UK to Poland? [25]

Merged: Transport some large, heavy and valuable boxes from Manchester to Gdańsk, any removals firm?

I need to transport some large, heavy and valuable boxes (audio equipment) from Manchester to Gdańsk. Does anyone know of a reliable removals firm that could do this for a reasonable price?
Ziutek   
15 Nov 2012
History / Pokłosie (film on Jedwabne) [36]

Well, it was a work of fiction not a documentary, so it just showed the point of view
of the protagonists. There was nothing very controversial or very much detail about the historical context.