Strict visa-based migration system
Zajączkowska-Hernik advocates for a system where Poland decides which professions are needed and invites specific workers via temporary visas obtained at embassies. She contrasts this with the current chaos where migrants arrive illegally and are later regularized. She points to Australia's points-based system as a model and to the pre-2014 Ukrainian labor migration to Poland as a successful example: Ukrainians had temporary visas, their stay was controlled, and overstaying resulted in entry bans. She argues this system worked well and caused no social problems. She also insists that any legal migration must be accompanied by assimilation, citing the failure of Western European countries that imported 'guest workers' in the 1970s but never integrated them, leading to ghettoization, no-go zones, and gang formation across generations.
Controlled legal pathways reduce the incentive for illegal entry; temporary visas prevent permanent undocumented settlement; cultural proximity reduces integration friction.
Ukrainians wanting to come to Poland legally had temporary visas. Their stay was completely controlled and if, for example, they committed something such that despite the expiry of that visa they did not leave Poland, then they had an entry ban.

