The King of Norway, Harald V, thanked the Poles working at the Havyard shipyard in Hyllestad in the west of the country for their contribution to saving the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic. "Without them, Norway would have stopped," announced the monarch.more
The number of EU citizens searching for work in Britain has fallen by more than a third since Brexit, according to a study that exposes the impact on UK employers as they struggle to recruit staff.more
EU citizens living in the UK have 14 days to apply for settled or pre-settled status, which allows them to retain rights they had acquired before the end of the post-Brexit transition period.more
The Spanish government is considering joining its North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla to the Schengen Area, said the country's head of diplomacy, Arancha Gonzalez Laya. She confirmed that these plans were related to the increasing conflict with Morocco.more
Every third employer declares that they would be willing to pay a citizen of Ukraine more "on hand" than a Pole - according to the "Polish Labor Market Barometer" Personnel Service. Employees from Ukraine are currently employed by nearly 30 percent of enterprises.more
New figures show that 446,620 European Union nationals living in the East of England have applied for and gained the right to stay in the UK. But with roughly two weeks until the deadline for applications for settled status, there are concerns that not everyone knows they need to apply.more
More than 40 government-funded charities have written to Boris Johnson urging him to lift the 30 June deadline for EU citizens to apply to retain their rights to remain in the UK following Brexit.more
Already 800 thousand of foreigners work legally in Poland. That's about 127 thousand more than before the Covid-19 epidemic, informs today's Rzeczpospolita.more
Over 37% of foreign workers currently employed in Poland have already benefited from the automatic renewal of a permit for legal stay and work during the COVID-19 pandemic - according to the third edition of the sociological study "A foreign worker in the pandemic era" conducted in April and May 2021 by the EWL Group agency and the Study of Eastern Europe at the University of Warsaw.more
Despite the long stay to hire temporary workers from Poland, fewer and fewer compatriots decide to work in them. According to the Dutch research company Decisio, this is mainly due to the good performance of the Polish economy.more
Defrosting the economy increases the demand for workers from the East, for whom Poland is still an attractive destination for economic migrations, reports Rzeczpospolita today.more
Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Central America this week on a delicate diplomatic mission: Offer a message of hope to the people of Guatemala and other countries in the region. But discourage them from trying to cross the U.S.’ southern border because they won’t be welcomed on the other side.more
The Danish parliament approved a law on Thursday that will allow Denmark to process asylum seekers outside Europe, in a move that has drawn anger from human rights advocates.more
Thousands of British expats in four EU countries have been warned they could lose their residency rights if they don’t apply before a deadline in 30 days’ time.more
Over 50 Romanian nationals were found living and working under ‘inhuman circumstances’ on a farm in Linne in Limburg last week but the group have since disappeared, after the owner was ordered to find them new accommodation.
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Only until June 30, EU citizens living and working in the UK can apply for settled status. The new immigration policy introduced from January 1 this year. by the British government can make life difficult for many people who fail to ensure the continuity of their rights. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, took the floor again on this issue.more
In the first quarter of this year, the British border guards did not allow 3,294 EU citizens into the country, although they can enter the UK without visas, the Guardian reported on Friday, citing data from the interior ministry.more
In Sweden, immigrants are avoiding deportation from the country by refusing to test for Covid-19 as required by airlines and countries to which they are to be transferred.more
More than 1,500 people seeking protection in UK told they may be deported to safe countries under new immigration plans even though no returns mechanism is in place.more
