{"id":510510,"date":"2026-01-17T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=510510"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:34:44","slug":"rising-demand-for-legal-status-in-poland-belarusians-file-more-applications-but-receive-fewer-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/rising-demand-for-legal-status-in-poland-belarusians-file-more-applications-but-receive-fewer-permits","title":{"rendered":"Rising Demand for Legal Status in Poland: Belarusians File More Applications but Receive Fewer Permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In 2025, Belarusian citizens received 34,200 residence permits in Poland \u2014 18.3% fewer than a year earlier \u2014 while the number of applications submitted rose by 27% to 83,300. This was reported by <em>G\u0142os znad Niemna<\/em>, citing data from Poland\u2019s migration services portal.<\/p>\n<p>The portal notes that this reflects growing interest in legalizing stay amid a slowdown in application processing.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the permits issued were temporary residence permits \u2014 28,700. Permanent residence was granted to 4,800 people, while 708 foreigners received EU long-term resident status.<\/p>\n<p>Regional statistics show that the largest number of permits was issued in the Masovian Voivodeship \u2014 12,400, although this was 27.5% less than in 2024. At the same time, growth in the number of permits issued was recorded in the Lower Silesian (4,500, up 9.1%) and Greater Poland (3,600, up 5.3%) voivodeships.<\/p>\n<p>Regions traditionally popular among Belarusians showed a marked decline. In the Podlaskie Voivodeship, the number of permits fell to fewer than 2,000 (from 3,400 in 2024), while in the Pomeranian Voivodeship it dropped to 2,800 from 3,800 a year earlier. At the same time, these regions saw an increase in the number of applications submitted, pointing to a growing mismatch between demand for legalization and the capacity of administrative services, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, Belarusian citizens received 34,200 residence permits in Poland \u2014 18.3% fewer than a year earlier \u2014 while the number of applications submitted rose by 27% to 83,300. This was reported by G\u0142os znad Niemna, citing data from Poland\u2019s migration services portal. The portal notes that this reflects growing interest in legalizing stay amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696be458b84e5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Rising Demand for Legal Status in Poland: Belarusians File More Applications but Receive Fewer Permits"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}