DUSHANBE, April 8, 2016, Asia-Plus – A report by the Polish National Contact Point to the European Migration Network (EMN NCP), entitled Migration to Poland in 2015: Main Trends, says Poland last year granted asylum to 12, 211 foreigners, including 539 Tajik nationals.

In 2014, only 103 Tajik nationals were granted asylum in Poland.

Last year, dozens of Tajik nationals being in the opposition to the Tajik authorities, including members of the banned Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) and activists of the banned opposition movement Group 24, were reportedly granted asylum in Poland.

Meanwhile, Poland’s border service reports Polish border guards last year warded off entry of 51,146 foreign nationals into the country, including more than 3,000 nationals of Tajikistan.

Established in 2008, the Polish National Contact Point to the European Migration Network (PL NCP EMN) is located within the Migration Policy Department of the Ministry of the Interior.  The Polish EMN NCP currently consists of experts from the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, Office for Foreigners, National Border Guard Headquarters and the Central Statistical Office.  

The European Migration Network (EMN) is an EU funded network, set up with the aim of providing up-to-date, objective, reliable and comparable information on migration and asylum for Institutions of the European Union, plus authorities and institutions of the Member States of the European Union, in order to inform policymaking.  The EMN also serves to provide the wider public with such information.