<story><title>Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/belarus-protests-tech-workers-flee-as-country-takes-authoritarian-turn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakozaur</author><text>Emigrating from Belarus to Poland is easy. Even if one of your grandparents has Polish origins you can get easily equivalent of USA green card. Polish governament is working on new law to make it even easier and available more broadly. Given Poland borders before World War II were covering huge part of today Belarus a lot of people can take of the advantage.&lt;p&gt;Regular work permit for IT proffesional is also rubber stamp. Nothing compared to cruel H1B.&lt;p&gt;I guess same as after Ukraine revolution, a lot of Belarusians will end up in Poland.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/belarus-protests-tech-workers-flee-as-country-takes-authoritarian-turn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ozim</author><text>“There’s no borders at all for IT engineers. They can find a job anywhere.”&lt;p&gt;Uhm yeah, but they also have parents, siblings, girlfriends. Probably they might have some properties bought already. So as it may seem really advantageous to be in IT, one might not be able to move to another country just like that...</text></comment>