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.
Over 400,000 work permits were issued for foreigners in Poland in 2020, 10 times more than in 2010 and 30 times more than in 2004, when Poland joined the European Union, research has found.
Rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) has raised Poland's economic growth forecast to 5.1 percent in 2021 from the 4.5 percent expected earlier.
The number of foreigners legally residing and working in Poland is steadily rising, with 818,800 registered with national social insurer ZUS at the end of June, the organisation reported on Thursday.
Attorneys for 32 foreigners trapped in an area between the Polish and Belarusian borders have applied to the European Court of Human Rights for it to grant them protection under international law and to demand that the Polish authorities provide them with food and medical assistance.
The number of foreigners working in Poland is on the rise with about 800,000 of them now legally employed in the country, up by 127,000 on the pre-pandemic era.
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