[Copy and paste text below into email/online
submission and feel free to personalize]
[Send to Your Congressional District Representative] https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
The Honorable Congressman/Congresswomen,
I am writing to ask for your support in including Poland in the Visa Waiver
Program and co-sponsoring The Visa Waiver Program Enhanced Security and
Reform Act of 2012
(bill number H.R.3855).
This legislation introduced in March of this year in the House of
Representatives by Representative Quigley and co-sponsored by Representative
Hunter aims to restructure the Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
Poland has always been one of AmericaÕs closest NATO allies, providing
steadfast support and leadership in missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, with deep
roots and close partnership of our two nations dating back to the Revolutionary
War.
Visa refusal rates for Poles have dropped dramatically and its citizens do
not need to come to the United States to find work, they want to travel here
for business, vacation and to visit family. Allowing Poles to
visit the United States as tourists would encourage international trade and
pump tourism dollars into US economy. By refusing visa free travel for
Poles, the United States is pushing Poland closer to other European nations
that are not as friendly towards America.
Allowing Poles to travel without visas will add to US security and enhance
law enforcement and crime-fighting efforts through data-sharing agreements
between our two respective countries.
While the United States requires Poles to have visas when traveling to
America, Poland waived visas for Americans 20 years ago and today Poland
remains the only European Union Member of the Schengen Zone (created to promote
visa free travel across the European Union) who is not a Member of the Visa
Waiver Program.
I hope you understand and share my disappointment that Poland continues to
be unfairly excluded from the Visa Waiver Program.
Please give a favorable consideration to this important matter and join
Representative Quigley as a co-sponsor or write a letter of support for bill
number H.R.3855.
Respectfully yours,
Name/Address