Inflow of Ukrainian professionals welcomed by Polish employers

Poland’s labor market is increasingly attractive to foreign professionals, including managers and IT specialists, especially from the country’s eastern neighbors, according to the daily Rzeczpospolita. In the first nine months of this year, around 100,000 applications were submitted to obtain legal residency in Poland, which is an increase of one-third from the same period last year. Experts and employers are pleased with this trend, since immigrants are filling the gap left by Poles who have emigrated, mainly to the UK. “The record holders are immigrants from Ukraine, where 70 percent of applications come from. That is about half more than in the same period last year,” said Jakub Dudziak, spokesman for the Office for Foreigners.