The Tusk government has been convinced for months that the Polish migration strategy has been sealed. Deputy Minister Maciej Duszczyk ensures more effective procedures and better control of the legalisation of abroad residence. In the meantime, reality seems completely different. There is inactive a solution in the existing regulations, which allows for a legally extended stay in Poland for people who came here for a completely different purpose. Just be a student.
The residence card in Poland for studies is simply a standard way to settle in Poland. However, it is not about learning, regular participation in classes or learning. simply enroll in college, even conducted remotely, to get the basis for receiving a temporary residence card.
The mechanics revealed a journalistic provocation by Clara Soltan. Her interviewer – an worker of 1 of Warsaw's agencies dealing with legalization of her stay, himself being a foreigner – explained without a uncertainty what the process looked like. A 3rd country foreigner arrives in Poland on the basis of a short-stay Schengen visa issued by another country, for example Spain. erstwhile the visa expires, alternatively of leaving the Schengen area, it visits the agency. There he hears a simple proposal: enroll in college and apply for a residence card.
The most meaningful are the words of an agency employee: “The survey lasts 3 years, but as you make the TRC, you can decide whether you want to continue.” It is hard to admit more openly that, for any clients, studios are not an end in themselves but a means of obtaining the right of residence.
And that's where the problem comes out. Polish law requires the university to confirm admission to or continuation of studies. However, it does not require an effective examination of whether a individual actually intends to study, participates in classes or treats discipline as an actual intent of residence. There are besides no age restrictions, and the anticipation of studying remotely makes physical presence at the university frequently ceases to be of greater importance.
Effect? The state proudly announces the sealing of the migration system, while in practice it is adequate to find a suitable agency, pay for recruitment for studies and apply for temporary stay. It's kind of like boasting about installing an armored entrance door, leaving a wide window on the ground floor.
Of course, utilizing the rules is not illegal. It is hard to resent foreigners that they usage solutions created by the Polish legislator. Rather, the question should be addressed to the authors of these provisions. If the strategy allows to legalise the stay of people whose real intent is not to survey but to stay in Poland, it is hard to talk about effective migration policy. It is alternatively an example of classical administrative fiction, in which everyone knows how the mechanics works, but as long as the formalities agree, no 1 asks uncomfortable questions.
All the more amazing are the declarations of the system's "sealing". If 1 of the simplest ways to a long legal stay remains to enroll in studies – even those not intended to finish – it is hard to defy the impression that success was announced by far prematurely. In practice, the gap does not only proceed to exist, but according to those active in legalization of residence has become part of the usually offered service. It's hard to see as proof of a viable state. alternatively for proof that the Polish migration strategy is as tight as a sieve.
When Polish soldiers defender the east border so that respective 100 people do not enter illegally, thousands of others come here without much problem and laughter at us.
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