During a meeting with Trump in New York last month, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that Poles had been waiting for 30 years to be able to travel to the United States visa-free.
At the time, Trump said the United States expected to be able to make Poland part of its Visa Waiver Program “over the next couple of months.”
The threshold for a country to enter the program is a 3-percent refusal rate.
The rate for Polish nationals for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018 was 3.99 percent, down from 5.92 percent a year earlier, according to the US embassy in Poland.
Meanwhile, in recent months a growing proportion of Polish applicants have been issued US visas, causing the denial rate to drop below 2.8 percent for the first time in history, Poland’s onet.pl news website reported in September.
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Source: PAP