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Ukrainians hope for legal status

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By Peter Kononczuk
Staff Writer, The Prague Post
June 22nd, 2005 issue

Ivan Pavlishchye has come to work in the Czech Republic every summer for 10 years.
Ivan Pavlishchye has come to work in the Czech Republic every summer for 10 years.
Mykola Popovich is young, energetic and ambitious. After three years toiling on construction sites for 10 hours a day, he dreams of a better job. But he rates his chances at almost zero.

Popovich has learned good Czech from his girlfriend and would like to work as a barman, a DJ or a party organizer. So far, that has proved impossible: As an illegal immigrant from Ukraine, he has no official documents.

With estimates of 200,000 Ukrainians in the same position as Popovich, they constitute the biggest minority group in the Czech Republic. Legal Ukrainians are far fewer. The Czech Statistical Office puts the number who have permanent residency permits and permission to stay over 90 days at around 78,300.

During a three-day visit to Ukraine by President Václav Klaus, Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko announced June 14 that the two countries will draft an agreement to

Peter Kononczuk can be reached at pkononczuk@praguepost.com


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