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1. As a general rule, each person that submitted an application for granting a refugee status - applicant, will take part in an interview (interrogation). The above follows from the provisions of Act of 13 June 2003 on granting protection to aliens within the territory of the Republic of Poland (Article 43(1) of the Act). The interview is carried out by an employee of the Department for Refugee and Asylum Proceedings.

2. All information given by the applicant during the proceedings, and also during the statutory interview are confidential and protected by Polish law. Office for Foreigners must not transmit this information to authorities or public institutions of the country of the applicant's origin. The ban results from the Act of 13 June 2003 on granting protection to aliens within the territory of the Republic of Poland (Article 9 of the Act). Foreigners applying for refugee status have no grounds to be afraid that the information revealed during the interview with an employee of the Department for Refugee and Asylum Proceedings will be made available to anyone.

3. During the interrogation the applicant is obliged to give all information, which will be needed to consider the application on granting the refugee status. Giving detailed answers to the questions asked during the interrogation is beneficial to the applicant. The applicant is also obliged to provide all owned evidence (e.g. documents, certificates, VHS cassettes, etc.), which confirm the information given in the application on granting the refugee status.

4. The information given during the interrogation, as well as the evidence provided are essential for considering the application on granting the refugee status. They will be all taken into consideration as a whole while issuing the decision. Withholding information and evidence, or providing false information or evidence is unfavourable to the applicant.

5. If new, significant for the case circumstances or evidence occur after the interrogation, it is necessary to contact the Department for Refugee and Asylum Proceedings as soon as possible. It is also possible to submit an application on carrying out an additional interrogation or forward a written request to hear a witness in the case - in such event it is necessary to give the witness name and first name, address of residence, as well as point to the circumstances which the witness may confirm.

New information, evidence and applications may be sent in writing:

-via mail to the address: ul. Koszykowa 16, 00-564 Warszawa or

-via fax to no.: 0-22-601-51-23, or

-delivered in person to the Department concerned (ul. Taborowa 33, Warszawa).

6. After considering the application on granting the refugee status a decision will be issued. The decision is issued in writing and it will be delivered to the applicant to the address given by him/her as the current address of permanent stay. The applicant, and other persons whom the decision concerns, are obliged to act in accordance with the decision. Each decision includes information, in a language legible for the applicant, on the result of the proceedings and on the possibility of lodging an appeal if the applicant is not satisfied with the decision.