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Case closed: Belarusian retain protection in Poland after "New Belarus" passport dispute

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Presentation of the "New Belarus" passport at the conference "Belarusians Deserve Better" in Warsaw, Poland. Photo: Vasily Krestyaninov / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images

At the end of February, the story of a Belarusian man who applied for a residence permit using information from a "New Belarus" passport caused a stir — it was reported that he could lose his international protection status. Now it has become known what the case was about and how it ended.