Gość: Zsypek
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29.01.02, 22:04
Szykuje sie nowa akcja protestacyjna przeciwko Amerykanom w Polsce. Jeff
Portko, Esq. z Michigan napisal do prezesa Moskala i biuletynu polonijnego SIEC
list otwarty w sprawie zmian w polityce wizowej USA w Polsce.
Cytuje ponizej
fragment rzeczonego listu otwartego:
Below is the opening page of the US Embassy/Consulate in
Warsaw, Poland which details their new requirements. It looks innocuous at
first but then you must realize that all forms of bureaucratic or
administrative "evil" look plain and boring. However, here the reality is
that in addition to all the previous time and cost burdens placed upon the
Polanders, (and I don't know for sure if they are required to have a written
invitation, I think that you are right, that is REQUIRED FIRST!) the USA has
now added an onerous and time consuming, EXPENSIVE, PHONE TREE SYSTEM on a
$1 USD per minute special mandatory phone line! Typical cost to apply for a
VISA to visit the USA now will increase from about $100 USD (factoring in
the FEE, travel costs and lost wages) to about $300 USD, factoring in the
same as above, plus the multiple and frustrating phone calls, that often get
you nowhere fast. I am shocked at this mistreatment of our friends!
ED, you wanted to know what the message should be so I am making a proposal
so we can have a united front approach to this issue. I know you always ask
for more that you can get in the hopes of at least getting something in a
compromise, so my take is to ASK THAT NO VISA BE REQUIRED FOR POLAND
anymore, just like we do for all the other close US-friendly nations. I
invite all friends of Poland to comment and discuss this. Perhaps together
we can do more than just talk, but actually take some action that produces a
positive result? Thanks for your support to all of you who have written to
me privately, as you are welcome to do. The sad deportation of the Polish
Family from the Cleveland Ohio area, whose children are US Citizens, should
be a rallying cry for all of us. Now is the time to seize the moment to
make something of it and just maybe get the VISA requirement dropped or at
the very least, modified into a mere formality without any burdens.
Yours, JEFF PORTKO, Esq. Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
(i dalej jest odnosnik do strony ambasady USA w Warszawie www.usinfo.pl )
a posty mozna w tej sprawie wysylac do biuletynu SIEC, adresy:
mietek@erols.com
siecpolska@netscape.net
mszporer@polaris.umuc.edu