Editorial & Opinion Talk #2763.19

Editorial & Opinion Talk #2763.19: "Mr. Sikorski appears to be very concern about free movement of people, maybe he should press the government of Poland to remove the obstacles it has put in it's law that prevents the Polish citizens abroad from visiting their families in Poland and also comply with the EU requirements. I've read the last report and it seems that Poland is waaay behind. If they can't meet the EU requirements how they expect to meet ours? No visa-free entry for you!!! "

Editorial & Opinion Talk #2763.14

Editorial & Opinion Talk #2763.14



GREATPOUPON wrote:
>>That's interesting, what you are saying about the citizenship. Let me ask you a question, if you are not allowed to leave Poland until you get the polish passport and you finally get it, then you would need US visa in that passport to be able to board a plane, no? It wouldn't make any sense to have a passport just to be able to leave Poland if you in reality doesn't live there, would it?<<



You're right about that. It completely doesn't make any sense at all, but that's what the Polish government requires from Polish-Americans. One has to have a Polish passport in order to depart Poland. That's it!



Problem with visas has been "solved" by requiring to produce -- attention, drum roll please: an American passport! :) BTW there are exit border passport checkpoints on the airports with soldier-like uniformed personnel called Border Guards. Now, Polish-Americans absolutely can't use the American passport for identification purposes while in Poland because of the current Polish government regulations. But at the border checkpoint they are required to produce both, Polish and American passport. I guess at the Polish border the Polish law doesn't apply, or something like that.



And again, maybe Mr. Sikorski would like to step in and explain the "logic" behind this scheme? We know, Mr. Sikorski, that you are reading these postings. So, tell us, why did you come up with the idea of harassing Polish-Americans wanting to visit sick mother or lay flowers on the graves of relatives? WE ARE WAITING FOR YOUR ANSWER!

With "friends" like this...

At the beginning of his article, Mr. Sikorski praises US for today’s independence and freedom of the Central European countries. Surely it’s a result of continuos and long struggle to free this part of the world from communism, and the USA has to receive a credit for that. But the rest of the article suggests that now US owe some sort of obligations to these nations yet - in order to keep them as allies. So that’s what the Central Europeans are all about? Allies in the war in Iraq for money and special privileges? At the central part of his article, Mr. Sikorski complains that America shows no willingness to disregard it’s own Visa Waiver Policy and provide exceptions, especially for the Central Europeans. We all know what Mr. Sikorski has on his mind here: exporting unemployment to US by filling the black job market. Splendid! In case of Poland, the native country of Mr. Sikorski, the unemployment rate is about 20%.


Mr. Sikorski did not invent all of this by himself. It is an official call of the Polish Government. Looks like Polish jokes are made in Poland today. A few years ago, Mr. Sikorski furiously promoted, and in fact was even one of the creators of another Polish joke. The thing is still in existence and it’s called a "passport trap". It allows Polish-Americans to enter Poland on the US passport, but it prevents them from leaving Poland without – a Polish passport. In other words, the US passport is not valid in Poland for the Polish-Americans but for everybody else it is. That is splendid too!