flash news: #foreigners
On 8 November, the Prime Minister’s Office published on its website a new draft bill on Amendments to the Act on Foreigners and Certain Other Acts (UD163) introducing greater digitalisation to procedures for applying for:
- temporary stay
- permanent residence
- stay of a long-term EU resident.
On October 15th, the main assumptions of the document entitled ‘Take back control. Ensure security. Comprehensive and responsible migration strategy of Poland for 2025-2030’ were added to the list of the Council of Ministers’ legislative and programming work. According to the information published on the website of the Council of Ministers (for the time being still very general), the document is to set directions for changes in immigration law in terms of:
Yesterday on 26 September 2024, the Government’s Legislation Centre published the announced draft bill amending certain acts in order to resolve problems in the visa system of the Republic of Poland (we learnt of the premises for this bill a few weeks ago).
The Labour Market Department of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has published information on the employment of foreigners in Poland in the first half of 2024. The ministerial data confirm the trend of an increasing number of foreigners finding employment in Poland.
On 30 July 2024, the following was published on the website of the Government Legislation Centre: supplementary material to the draft Act on amending the Act on foreigners and certain other acts (UC15). It includes an annex to aRegulation of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration with a list of professions the practice of which results in the recognition of higher professional qualifications obtained by a foreigner.
An EU IT system is due to be launched in the first half of 2025 that will record the entries and exits of non-EU nationals (EES), as well as short-term travel permits (ETIAS) to the EU. Therefore, UK citizens living in Poland and their eligible family members should consider applying for a residence permit now - if they have not already done so.