Faulty notices issued by the Governor of Mazowieckie violate procedural guarantees

20 May 2020

Faulty notices are one of the reasons why, in 2019, around half of appeals lodged against decisions issued by the Governor of Mazowieckie on the legalization of stay were repealed. The Association for Legal Intervention together with other non-governmental organizations…

Tagged with: Legal migration, procedural guarantees

REPORT: SIP in action. The rights of migrants in Poland

14 May 2020

The Association for Legal Intervention present its annual report summarizing the status of observance of migrants’ rights in Poland in 2019 from the perspective of lawyers and integration assistants from the Association for Legal Intervention. In 2019, our employees and…

Tagged with: Asylum, detention, integration, Legal migration, procedural guarantees, report, Returns and undocumented migrants

Rights of migrants during the coronavirus – FAQ

7 May 2020

What foreigners should know about work, documents, proceedings in the offices during an epidemic or an epidemiological risk in Poland.

Decision: Child’s best interest when a parent is suspected being a threat to public security and order

5 May 2020

Border Guard, in the procedure for granting residence permit for humanitarian reasons, must examine whether the obligation to return would not violate the right to family life and rights of the child, and whether the migrant poses a real threat…

Tagged with: children rights, Returns and undocumented migrants, threat to public security and safety

SIP proposes to improve the work of migration and asylum authorities during the coronavirus

28 April 2020

The Association for Legal Intervention submitted, under the procedure of complaints and motions, a proposal that the Head of the Office for Foreigners and the Mazovian Voivode should send a text message to foreigners with information about the decision issued…

Tagged with: Asylum, Legal migration

SIP calls on the Border Police to release migrants from detention

3 April 2020

We call on the Border Police to release migrants from immigration detention due to the pandemic Due to the spreading coronavirus pandemic we requested Chiefs of Divisions of Border Guard to immediately release migrants from immigration detention centers, especially the…

Decision: humanitarian stay for a stateless person

3 April 2020

A stateless person who has a family in Poland ought to receive permit for humanitarian reasons. The grounds to issue humanitarian stay override the grounds for a tolerated stay. The Chief of Border Guard in Warsaw issued a humanitarian stay…

Attention: we are temporarily closing our office

13 March 2020

Due to the sanitary guidelines we are closing our office untill further notice. We will continue to provide legal, integrational and legalisation consultations via e-mail and phone Our temporary office phone: + 48 792 568 561 To set up a virtual…

Decision: re-socialized migrant is not a threat to public security or safety

6 March 2020

A father of four, who was successfully re-socialized is not a threat to public security or safety eight years after the commitment of crimes. Hiss deportation would be an unjustified interference in his right to a family life. On 20…

Tagged with: deportation, deportation order, right to family life, threat to public security and safety

Voivodship Administrative Court: labor market test is not a formal defect

4 March 2020

Lack of labor market test is not a formal defect of an application for work and residence permit. In consequence, the Province Governor had the obligation to consider the case. A represented migrant stayed in Poland legally since his application…

Tagged with: formal defects, judgement, labor market test, legalization procedure