WARSAW: The Polish Customs received a large numbers of applications ranging around 9,579 from Ukrainian citizens for temporary residence in Poland, amid crisis. These figures are doubled as first four months of 2014.
On the other hand Ukrainian authorities released a data showing how badly fighting in its east was battering its economy.”We have a difficult situation in Ukraine and a military conflict in the east, so one may expect a further inflow of Ukrainians into Poland,” said the office’s spokeswoman Ewa Piechota.
Poland’s Mazowieckie region, which includes the capital Warsaw said, received 3,114 residence applications in February 2015, almost 180 percent higher than the corresponding month in 2013 and 62 percent higher than 2014.Polish Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Piechocinski said that Ukraine’s economy was starting to disintegrate, creating a risk of hundreds of thousands of immigrants flowing into Poland.
