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Pro-life benefit also for refugees from Ukraine

4 June 202413 June 2024

The Polish authorities reversed their decision and granted a Ukrainian refugee woman a one-off benefit for the birth of a disabled child. The woman had applied for a one-off pro-life (“za życiem”) benefit of PLN 4,000…

Egyptian teenager imprisoned in detention centre – we file a complaint with the ECHR

8 May 202413 June 2024

The case concerns an Egyptian teenager who crossed the Polish-Belarusian border. When arrested by the Border Guard, he was a minor. Despite this, he was not recognised as an unaccompanied minor migrant. Both the Border G…

Refugee status in Poland for Iranian family

23 April 202413 June 2024

The Head of the Office for Foreigners, a first instance authority, granted refugee status to Mr and Mrs H., who came to Poland with their 8-year-old son. The family decided to apply for international protection because t…

The Polish government is working on changes to the Special Act and we reported some comments related to it

19 April 202419 April 2024

The Polish government is drafting changes to the Special Act on assistance to citizens of Ukraine in connection with the armed conflict on the territory of that country of 12th March 2022. Some of the proposed changes a…

Tax settlement for migrants

19 April 202419 April 2024

Tax settlement for migrants in Poland depends on their tax residency status. Polish residents pay taxes on their global income, while non-residents only on income earned in Poland. Income is earnings after deducting cost…

Ukrainian citizens may not be punished for employers’ mistakes

8 April 202410 April 2024

The employer must inform the Labour Office of the employment of a Ukrainian citizen. If he/she fails to do so, he may be penalised. However, a Ukrainian employee cannot be penalised under these circumstances. Ukrainia…

Refugee status for Tajik oppositionist after eight years

4 April 202413 June 2024

The Refugee Board granted refugee status to an opposition figure from Tajikistan eight years after he filed an application for international protection. Mr. I. came to Poland with his family in 2016. Since then, inter…

Council of Europe expresses doubts over Poland’s (non-)implementation of an ECHR judgement regarding the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border

3 April 20243 April 2024

In mid-February, we presented an opinion to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe regarding the current situation on the Polish-Belarusian border (available HERE). There, we criticised the Polish government…

We comment on the proposed amendments to the Act on Foreigners

20 March 20243 April 2024

The protraction of legalisation proceedings, which most foreigners in Poland go through, has been a major issue for years. It is sometimes necessary to wait more than a year or more to obtain a residence permit. Among th…

Transgender woman released from a guarded center for male foreigners

13 March 202428 March 2024

A Polish regional court placed a transgender citizen of Vietnam who identified as a woman in a guarded center for male foreigners. Ever since she was apprehended, she continued telling employees of the center, including…

We have an impact! A summary of key SIP activities in 2023

5 March 202411 March 2024

The year 2023 marks the coming of age of the Association for Legal Intervention: we have been supporting people with refugee and migration experience for 18 years now. Our team currently consists of 29 employees and 25 v…

Court releases from detention and takes into account the opinion of a psychologist from outside the detention centre (SOC)

28 February 202413 June 2024

By a decision of 9 February 2024, case file No. VII Kz 34/24, the District Court in Olsztyn repealed a measure applied to our client in the form of a stay in a detention centre for migrants (SOC). The case concerned a ci…

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27 February 202427 February 2024

Imagine fleeing your home to escape the war.Or that you are being prosecuted by the police because you have an opinion different from the president of your country.Or armed groups, because you speak a different language…

Poland has failed to comply with the ECHR judgement and contributed to deterioration of the situation at the Polish-Belarussian border – SIP`s intervention

20 February 202412 March 2024

The Polish government claims that it has fully complied with the decision made by the European Court of Human Rights in case M.K. and others versus Poland in which the Court pointed out multiple infringements of human ri…

Provincial Administrative Court (WSA): prerequisites for a humanitarian residence permit should be examined even if the migrant is outside Poland

13 February 202413 June 2024

With a judgment of October 18, 2023 (ref. no. IV SA/Wa 1416/23), the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw (WSA) annulled the appealed decision of the Head of the Office for Foreigners (UdsC) and the preceding decisi…

Planned changes to the Special Act: a direct address to the government

12 February 202419 February 2024

We are writing to the new government stating our readiness to join the legislative work on the draft Special Act. The new government has notified an extension until 30 June 2024 of some of the legal arrangements under…