Data from the Office for Foreigners (UdSC) indicate that over 80 percent of the foreigners who have settled in Poland are citizens of Ukraine.
The majority of Polish employees have worked with people of different nationalities, a poll new has shown.
The number of foreign students in Poland grew in 2022 by 5.6 percent on the previous year to almost 89,500, a new report has revealed.
Valid residency permits are currently held by 1.66 million foreigners in Poland, the vast majority of them (1.36 million) being Ukrainians, data from the Office for Foreigners (UdSC) show.
Poland's Border Guard (SG), since the beginning of 2021, has deported 770 foreigners who resided in the country illegally, an SG spokeswoman has told PAP.
The labour minister has said that the million foreigners now working in Poland were filling labour shortages and do not take jobs away from Poles.
Poland issued 504,200 work permits for foreigners in 2021, a 24 percent rise compared to the year before, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Friday.
Close to 1,400 foreign doctors, including around 700 from Ukraine, have started working in Poland, benefiting from simplified procedures, the health minister has said.
All foreigners crossing the Polish-Ukrainian border are being accepted and are receiving essential aid, the Polish foreign minister said on Wednesday.
This year, 5,600 foreigners applied for international protection, the highest number since 2016 and twice as many as last year, an Office for Foreigners spokesperson reported on Monday.
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