Poland promises not to deport Ukrainians with expired passports
People with expired documents will be subject to temporary protection like all other Ukrainian refugees
Poland will not deport Ukrainian citizens with expired passports, Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said on TVN24 on Friday, 26 April. According to him, people with expired documents will be subject to temporary protection, like all other Ukrainian refugees.
Source. This was reported by DW.
"We will find a way to solve this problem. We need to act wisely and rationally. All things that concern Ukrainians in Poland are spelled out in the laws. We will extend the protection for Ukrainian refugees, which is currently valid only until 30 June," Kervinsky said.
He added that Poland will protect the rights of Ukrainians and will not transfer their personal data to anyone, including Ukraine.
On 23 April, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stopped processing documents at foreign consulates for its male citizens aged 18 to 60. It was also announced that Ukrainians of military age would no longer be issued passports. This is due to the new law on mobilisation and Kyiv's desire to increase the size of the army.
Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosyniak-Kamysz said that the government in Warsaw is ready to help Ukraine return men of military age who left the country after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. He did not specify what this assistance would consist of, saying only that "any support is possible".
Following the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's announcement that consular services for men of military age would be suspended on 24 April, hundreds of Ukrainians, angry at Kyiv's decision, gathered in Warsaw outside a closed passport office.
The German authorities stated that Ukrainians would be able to stay in the country even after their documents expire. Granting or extending a temporary residence permit to Ukrainian refugees in Germany does not require them to have a passport, a representative of the Berlin Senate, i.e. the government of Berlin, which has the status of one of Germany's 16 federal states, said in response to a DW request. According to him, the main thing is that the German authorities should be able to establish a person's identity in any way.
According to Brussels, as of the beginning of 2024, there were about 4.3 million Ukrainian citizens in the EU, of whom about 860,000 were men.
Background. As a reminder, the Ukrainian government has banned the issuance of passports to Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 abroad.
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