New visa law has fortunately not resulted in panic among Ukrainians

More than 900 people visited the Polish consulate in Lvov, Ukraine, within the last week, due to the changes in the law which require all visitors from many former soviet republics to have a visa to enter Poland, effective October, 1. "We are well prepared. We feared we would be overwhelmed [...] but nothing like that happened," said Bogusław Majewski from Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Still, hundreds of Ukrainians waiting nervously outside the consulate do not seem to share this view. Unfortunately, according to the consul Janusz Jabłoński, he is unable to take on any more staff to process visa applications as the consulate is too small to accommodate more employees. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A5) M.K.