“Green card” for Ukrainians? Time to fight for neighbors Dziennik.pl

last week in Brussels was adopted a very important political decision: citizens of Ukraine can enter the EU visa. And it’s not 3, 5 or 10 years, but likely in the next year. And it can make it so that Poland will not be for them (because of geographical proximity and liberal employment laws) in such an attractive place to work, as at present.

From January to August this year, the Polish employer announced the intention of employment 827 thousand Ukrainians – about 65 thousand. more than in the whole last year. When the facilities in the EU will become a reality, part of this wave goes further to the West.

the Government seems to understand this, because he begins to think about changing their immigration policy to stop us workers from the East. – we are Talking about the fact that we have certain concepts , admits in an interview with the DGP, the Deputy Minister of labour Mr Swede. And lists: talking about the possibility of a prolonged stay in the country without having to obtain a work permit or even greater convenience in making her case workers, and highly qualified foreign students studying in our universities.

wider discussion on this topic should take place at a future meeting of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers. But that’s not all. How this relates to our information, the government grows the idea to introduce something like a green card for the Ukrainians. Thanks to her, they are not only easier access to our labour market, but also for public services. This will encourage them to settle in Poland permanently. Together with their families.

Such simplicity can become a part of the migration strategy and Plan Responsible Development Matthew Morawieckiego.

All this indicates that existing ideas on a more rigorous treatment of the Ukrainians fall into the box. Several months of continued dispute between the Department of family and work and office development to replace the system of simplified applications for working in Poland for a short period (up to six months) citizens of Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine permit system. From our data it follows that instead of having warts must be control abuse.