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Ukrainian citizens who were residing in Poland based on, among others, a national visa, and their stay’s legal validity ended before 24 February 2022 and was then subsequently extended under the COVID-19 Special Act to 31 July 2023, may continue to reside legally in Poland until 4 March 2024. This follows from the interpretation issued by the Head of the Office for Foreigners.
Employers who fail to comply with the obligation to file a notification on the start of work by a Ukrainian citizen can avoid sanctions in certain situations.
On 28 August this year, the President of Poland signed the Amending Act of 7 July 2023 which amends the Civil Procedure Code, the Law on the System of Common Courts, the Criminal Procedure Code, as well as certain other acts. It introduces, among others, changes in how court costs are regulated in employment cases.
In an employment case, if the value of the dispute exceeds PLN 50,000, only an appeal fee will be charged, and in addition, only on the part of the value of the dispute that exceeds PLN 50,000. The fee will be collected under the rules of Article 13 of the Act on Court Costs in Civil Cases.
Poland’s Commissioner for Human Rights is receiving complaints on abnormally long waiting times for residence cards to be issued to foreigners by the Governor of Lower Silesian Province, once the foreigners have obtained a Polish residence permit (at least 44 complaints were received on this, just from June to mid-July 2023). The Commissioner has intervened and sent a letter to the Governor of Lower Silesia requesting details of the scale of the problem, its causes, as well as the corrective measures the authority is putting into place.
The President signed the Act on Employee Participation in a Company Arisen from a Cross-Border Conversion, Merger or Division of Companies, dated 26 May 2023. The following are the most important issues that this Act resolves:
During the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, rules were brought in that allowed Ukrainians, Belarusians, Moldovans, Georgians and Armenians to apply for visas through the postal system or by proxy. This option has now been significantly restricted.