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Hello all, I've had this email from another?Polish yahoo group saying that I need to have a Polish passport to visit Poland.? As my sister and I are hoping to go in the next few years I would be grateful to know if this is true.? Have any of you had to get a Polish passport for your trips?? ? Thanks ? Vanessa? ?

Vanessa

I did not need a Polish passport. ?But this has point a point of controversy for several years and you will get a wide range of opinion from people with different experiences on this point.

This issue seems to most commonly affect Poles who were born in Poland and moved overseas because the government knows they were Polish in the first place. ?They once had a Polish passport and never renounced their Polish citizenship, but now do not wish to be treated as Polish citizens under Polish law ?but rather as American citizens or whatever - but Poland does not recognise dual citizenship. ?

As for you, how would they know that you had ancestors from Poland if you don't tell them? ?If you did want a Polish passport, you would need to produce proof of parentage - ie. your father's Polish birth certificate. ?How the heck are you going to do that? ?Oh, and it may take you 6 months to a year to go through that process. ?

The best advice you could take would be from the Polish Consulate in your country, when you apply for your entry visa if you need one (NB as a Brit, the EU membership should eliminate all these worries for you after May 2004 anyway and after then won't the Polish passport become an EU one anyway?).

Cheers
Stefan Wisniowski

Absurd I would love to have a Polish passport and I can prove Polish parentage I have amy mothers birth certificate but it is difficult. Any passport such as UK US Australian etc is accepted and there are NO problems in the laest. It would be a great idea if Poland was to take over the world irt could be party party party and Im not talking the social gathering type either!



Bye 4 now Hela.

From: "Vantom" <vantom@...>
Reply-To: Kresy-Siberia@...
To: <Kresy-Siberia@...>
Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Fw: [CAFE POLAND] Polish citizen
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:30:13 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

Hello all, I've had this email from another Polish yahoo group saying that I
need to have a Polish passport to visit Poland. As my sister and I are
hoping to go in the next few years I would be grateful to know if this is
true. Have any of you had to get a Polish passport for your trips??

Thanks

Vanessa

-------Original Message-------

From: cafepoland@...
Date: 15 October 2003 00:52:37
To: cafepoland@...
Subject: [CAFE POLAND] Polish citizen

" So, you were born outside of Poland, elsewhere in the world. But at
least one of your parents or grandparents was Polish. You've never
been to Poland - hell, you can't even speak the language. Well, guess
what? You're a Polish citizen! And next time you travel to Poland
you'd better have a Polish passport, or you could be in trouble with
the law!!

Sounds absurd? It certainly does. But it also happens to be true.
Yep, buddy, matey, pal, old chum - in the light of the current Polish
law, you're a Polak too. I know you hate flaczki (tripe) and you can
barely stand the smell of Old Grandpa Jozek's bimber (moonshine). It
matters not. You're a Polak."




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--- Vantom <vantom@...> wrote: > Hello
all, I've had this email from another Polish

yahoo group saying that I
need to have a Polish passport to visit Poland. As
my sister and I are
hoping to go in the next few years I would be
grateful to know if this is
true. Have any of you had to get a Polish passport
for your trips??

That's hogwash. I was born in Poland and heard a
couple of years ago that I might need a Polish
passport to go there.

So I checked with the Polish consulate in Vancouver.
Any Polish citizen who left Poland before 1970 has
lost that citizenship. It's not too difficult to get
back, apparently, but it does mean I can go there on
my Canadian passport.

If you weren't born there the same rule applies.

Cheers,
Leszek
Calgary (currently in Edmonton playing grandpa)


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