{"id":165300,"date":"2025-11-23T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/165300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"warsaw-extends-restrictions-on-asylum-requests-at-border-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/165300\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw extends restrictions on asylum requests at border with Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1127\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/straz-graniczna.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/straz-graniczna.jpg 1127w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/straz-graniczna-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/straz-graniczna-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/straz-graniczna-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/straz-graniczna-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1127px) 100vw, 1127px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Polish Border Guard)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 23, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk approved the government\u2019s proposal to extend restrictions on the acceptance of asylum requests at the border with Belarus for another 60 days, starting November 22. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, the Polish Sejm voted in favor of extending these regulations for the fourth time this year amid the ongoing irregular migration pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland stopped accepting asylum requests submitted at the border with Belarus on March 27. However, those filing applications at border guard offices located near the Polish-Belarusian border constitute a small percentage of the total number of applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland has thwarted more than 28,700 irregular crossings by third-country foreigners via Belarus since the start of January, according to&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>\u2019s analysis of border guards\u2019 data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of people desperate to enter the European Union surged in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent asylum seekers from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later,&nbsp;\u0141uka\u0161enka claimed that foreigners were traveling to the EU because they were \u201cinvited there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus\u2019 western neighbors call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"352\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/berestoviza-gpk-20251117-stk-POZ-352x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/berestoviza-gpk-20251117-stk-POZ-352x236.jpg 352w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/berestoviza-gpk-20251117-stk-POZ-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/berestoviza-gpk-20251117-stk-POZ.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Poland, Belarus reopen two border checkpoints for traffic<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">November 17,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Poland and Belarus reopened Ku\u017anica Bia\u0142ostocka\u2013Bruzhi and Bobrowniki\u2013Bierastavica checkpoints for traffic at 2 a.m. (Minsk time) on November 17. 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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk approved the government\u2019s proposal to extend restrictions on the acceptance of asylum requests at the border with Belarus for another 60 days, starting November 22. \u00a0 Earlier this month, the Polish Sejm voted in favor of extending these regulations for the fourth time this year amid the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":129148,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-165300","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Warsaw extends restrictions on asylum requests at border with Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 23, Pozirk. 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