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[simon_porter00]

Hello All,

I'm a Brit, so this is just me trying to get clued up on this.
Now that Poland has joined the Schengen zone it has an important impact on non EU teachers working in Poland. As i understood it, if you didn't have the appropriate working papers you had to jump the border every 90 days to get a 'tourist visa' stamped in your passport so you could continue to work. Then you would repeat the procedure every 90 days or so.

Now that Poland is part of the Schengen, when you return to Poland you don't get the tourist visa and therefore are no longer legally allowed to work in Poland.

Is that correct or am i getting confused somewhere along the line? Obviously some non EU peeps might come from a country that has some deal with Poland that i don't know about.

Another thing, a while ago, it was discussed on this board i think, something was said about teachers not needing a visa to work in Poland as long as you're teaching that is. Is that some way around this?

Ta for any responses

[YakTamer]

The biggest problem with schengen for non-eu is not getting the visa - that can still be done by going to a Non-schengen place like Ukraine (no more party cruise to Berlin, I'm afraid). The real problem is that you can't just return immediately on a tourist visa but have to spend 3 months in every 6 month period out of the country for your visa to be valid.
That really screws up people who were just working off a tourist visa. I know of a couple of Americans who have already left Czech because of this.

However, I also heard about this law that Poland is supposed to have, whereby people who are teachers of their native language can get work permits (working visas). I heard a lot of contradictory opinion about whether this was in play or not.

[phantombedwetter]