Poland sees drop by half in a number of visas issued to post-Soviet countries
Alicja Baczynska reports
Poland and other Central European countries have been issuing fifty percent less visas to post-Soviet state citizens than before December 2007 when the country joined the Schengen Zone, a Stefan Batory Foundation report reveals.
Belarusians, Moldavians, Ukrainians and Russians have found themselves behind a kind of a new Iron Curtain, just like before 1989, because of newly-implemented visa restrictions that have been levied in order to comply with European Union requirements.
“Compared to previous procedures, the new ones include an increased number of required documents […], longer visa processing time and costs have dramatically risen,” claims Olga Wasilewska from the International Cooperation Programme run by the Batory Foundation.
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