Changes to the Repatriation Act: Higher Expenditure Limits and Clarified Procedures
The draft act introduces changes to repatriation regulations, including raising budget expenditure limits for this purpose in 2025–2026. It clarifies the definition of immediate family, restores the requirement to prove deportation or exile of ancestors, and changes the rules for financial aid disbursement, transferring this task to the Government Plenipotentiary for Repatriation.
Key points
Increase in state budget expenditure limits for repatriation in 2025–2026 to PLN 80,757 thousand annually.
Restoration of the requirement to prove that the applicant or their ancestors were deported or exiled by the USSR authorities.
Change of the authority disbursing one-time financial aid from the staroste to the Government Plenipotentiary for Repatriation.
Clarification of the definition of the immediate family of a repatriation candidate and rules for allocating places in adaptation centers.
Extension of the deadline for issuing decisions in Polish citizenship cases to 6 months and changes in stamp duties.
96%
VOTING RESULTS
2025-05-21
For
415
Against
0
Abstain
16
Status:
Enacted
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