{"id":4044,"date":"2025-07-09T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:26:59","slug":"readmisja-uproszczona-i-pelna-narzedzia-polityki-migracyjnej","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wiedza\/readmisja-uproszczona-i-pelna-narzedzia-polityki-migracyjnej\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplified and full readmission - the tools of immigration policy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contemporary migration policy in many states, including Poland, is based not only on mechanisms meant to prevent unauthorised entry of foreigners but also on tools ensuring their effective return to their states of origin. One of the key instruments utilised to this end are <strong>readmission agreements<\/strong>\u200e which regulate the terms for transferring and accepting persons residing without authorisation within the territory of the signatory states. Within the bounds of this system there exist two main modes of procedure: <strong>simplified readmission<\/strong> and <strong>full readmission<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is readmission?<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Readmission is a form of international cooperation aimed at streamlining the procedures related to returning foreigners who are illegally residing in the territory of a state to their country of origin, to a transit country or to a country that has agreed to take them in. Readmission serves the purpose of ordering migration matters and improving the effectiveness of enforcing residence law.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Readmission agreements regulate the scope of subjects (nationals of states party to the agreement, third persons and stateless persons), terms and mode of readmission as well as the scope of time assigned to carrying out the procedures.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Simplified readmission \u2013 a quick response to crossing the border illegally<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Simplified readmission<\/strong> applies to cases when a foreigner has crossed a mutual border without authorisation and may be handed over to a party of the agreement without the need to submit a formal application. The only condition is that the transfer must take place within a short time limit from the discovery of the illegal entry \u2013 <strong>usually 48 hours<\/strong>, but in the case of Lithuania it was shortened to <strong>24 hours.<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simplified readmission is characterised by an informal procedure \u2013 the transfer is carried out based on a <strong>handover protocol<\/strong>, without the need to engage any central authorities. An application for accepting the return and the protocol are written down by the officers of the Border Guard who are overseeing the transfer.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Full readmission \u2013 a procedure involving central authorities<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the cases when the simplified procedur\u0119 cannot be utilised, e.g. when the foreigner was apprehended deep inside the country, many days after their illegal entry \u2013 a <strong>full readmission\u200e<\/strong>\u200e is applied. In this mode it is necessary to submit a formal <strong>readmission application<\/strong> through an appropriate central authority that monitors migration issues to its equivalent in the recipient country \u2013 in Poland that task is handled by the <strong>Board for Foreigners of the Head Office of the Border Guard<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full readmission may only take place once the formal application has been accepted by the party responsible for taking in the foreigner and it includes both administrative and bureaucratic procedures. Despite a more complex form, it remains an effective tool of migration policy.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polish practices and international cooperation<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poland has signed a number of bilateral and multilateral readmission agreements, e.g. with Ukraine, Russia and Vietnam. Thanks to the multilateral agreements it is also possible to apply the <strong>European Travel Document for the Return of Illegally Staying Third-country Nationals<\/strong>, which proves especially helpful in the case of foreigners without valid documents. Poland has utilised this mechanism during returns to Sri Lanka.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Simplified readmission in practice \u2013 an example of cooperation with Germany<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a person is present on the territory of Germany without a valid permit and it is established that they previously resided in Poland, German authorities inform the Polish side that the person will be returned according to the simplified readmission procedure. Poland is obliged to respond to the notification within <strong>24 hours<\/strong> and the transfer itself must take place within <strong>48 hours<\/strong> from when it was received.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The transfer of the migrant takes place at the border, preferably in close proximity to the place at which it was initially crossed. Both Polish and German authorities take part. At the time of the transfer an appropriate <strong>handover protocol<\/strong>\u200e is drawn up which documents the handling of the entire operation according to the terms of the readmission agreement.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p><ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Response to Parliamentary Question No. 5119 concerning the acceptance of illegal migrants returned to Poland from EU countries by Polish authorities\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<li>Agreement between the Governments of the Schengen Group countries and the Government of the Republic of Poland on the acceptance of persons staying without authorisation, dated 29 March 1991\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<li>Report on the implementation of programs supporting voluntary returns and the reintegration of foreigners in their countries of return in Poland, December 2009, pp. 33\u201334\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<li>Protocol on determining the technical conditions for the transfer of persons at the border between the Republic of Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany in connection with the implementation of the Agreement between the Governments of the Schengen Group countries and the Government of the Republic of Poland on the acceptance of persons staying without authorization of 29 March 1991, and the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Poland and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany on cooperation regarding the consequences of migration movements of 7 May 1993\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<li>Order No. 61 of the Chief Commander of the Border Guard of 30 April 2014 on the organizational regulations of the Foreigners\u2019 Affairs Department of the Border Guard Headquarters, Official Gazette of the Border Guard Headquarters, 2014, item 80\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesna polityka migracyjna pa\u0144stw, w tym Polski, opiera si\u0119 nie tylko na mechanizmach zapobiegania nielegalnemu wjazdowi cudzoziemc\u00f3w, ale r\u00f3wnie\u017c na skutecznych narz\u0119dziach umo\u017cliwiaj\u0105cych ich powr\u00f3t do kraj\u00f3w pochodzenia. Jednym z kluczowych instrument\u00f3w wykorzystywanych w tym celu s\u0105 umowy o readmisji, kt\u00f3re reguluj\u0105 zasady przekazywania i przyjmowania os\u00f3b przebywaj\u0105cych bez zezwolenia na terytorium pa\u0144stw-sygnatariuszy. W ramach [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,54],"tags":[],"rok":[],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktualnosci","category-azyl-migracja-integracja"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"rok","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panstwoprawa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rok?post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}