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Białystok Centre for Foreigners (Zajazd Budowlani)

ul. Bitwy Białostockiej, Białystok · Białystok, Podlaskie Voivodeship

No capacity of its own is published for this centre for 2025. Capacity is given only as a total: 1,525 places across the nine centres at the end of 2025 (AIDA).

People counted there: 87 (as at 31 December 2025).

In use (status as at: 12 May 2026)

The Białystok Centre for Foreigners (Zajazd Budowlani) is a reception centre run by the Office for Foreigners (UdSC) for people in the asylum procedure, in Białystok (Podlaskie Voivodeship). On 31 December 2025, 87 people lived there, and its running cost in 2025 was PLN 4,227,277.80 (this excludes staff wages and the allowances paid to people living outside the centres).

Key facts

Type: Reception centre for foreigners run by the Office for Foreigners (UdSC)
Operator: Office for Foreigners (UdSC)
Premises: Rented by the Office for Foreigners from an external owner. The owner is not named in the sources used.^[1]
Address: ul. Bitwy Białostockiej, Białystok. The house number is not published in the sources used. The street comes from OpenStreetMap, which tags the building as a shelter for migrants. The Office for Foreigners publishes no address.^[2]
Capacity: No capacity of its own is published for this centre for 2025. For all nine centres together, 1,525 places are given for the end of 2025. AIDA gives its occupancy as 72.5% on 31 December 2025.^[3]
People counted there: 87 on 31 December 2025.^[1]
Status: In use. In its reply of 12 May 2026 the ministry said that no changes to the functioning of the centres are planned.^[1]
Opening: The sources used do not give the opening date.
Running cost in 2025: PLN 4,227,277.80, the ministry's figure for 2025. It excludes staff wages and the allowances paid to people living outside the centres.^[1]
Position of the pin: The pin is on the building that OpenStreetMap tags as a shelter for migrants (last edited on 6 December 2025). A rented centre can change premises, so the position may not be current.^[2]

Background

The Office for Foreigners (UdSC) runs nine centres for people in the asylum procedure. On 31 December 2025, 716 people lived in them, and a further 6,061 people received support while living outside the centres (AIDA, updated 30 July 2026). Capacity is published only as a total: 1,525 places at the end of 2025, according to AIDA citing Office for Foreigners data of 10 April 2026. For that reason this page shows no 2025 capacity of its own for the centre. Four of the nine centres are the Office's own and five are rented.^[1],[3]

The running cost shown for this centre is the 2025 figure in the Interior Ministry reply of 12 May 2026. The ministry gives no total; the sum of the nine figures is PLN 38,890,100.57 (our addition). The figures cover rent, food and utilities for a rented centre, and food, utilities, repairs and infrastructure for an owned one. They exclude staff wages, which the ministry says cannot be split by centre, and the allowances paid to the people living outside the centres. The ministry also says that an average monthly cost per resident cannot be calculated, so no per-person figure is shown.^[1]

AIDA says that this is the only one of the nine centres located in a city. It also reports the highest occupancy of the nine for it. The Border Guard's guarded centre in Białystok is a separate site, shown on its own page as detention.^[3]

Reported incidents

Incidents connected with this site that official or mainstream sources have reported, each attributed, with the stage reached as the source states it. Suspects are not named. Counts of police interventions are the Interior Ministry's own and are not criminal charges.

Date: 2025 · Stage: Reported
In its reply of 12 May 2026, the Interior Ministry reported that the police carried out 6 interventions at this centre in 2025 over breaches of the centre's rules of stay. The reply does not describe the individual cases. The police were also called to the centre 3 times by a foreigner.^[1]

Sources

[1]: official source

The centres run by the Office for Foreigners (UdSC) are the nine that the Interior Ministry (MSWiA) lists in its reply to Sejm interpellation 14750 of 12 May 2026. The number of residents on 31 December 2025 and the 2025 running cost of each centre come from that reply. The ministry gives no total, and the total of PLN 38.9m used on this site is our sum of the nine figures. The running cost excludes staff wages and the allowances paid to people living outside the centres. Capacity for 2025 is published only as a total of 1,525 places (AIDA, citing Office for Foreigners data), so no centre shows a capacity of its own for 2025; where an earlier per-centre figure exists it is shown with its date. Border Guard detention is listed apart and is not accommodation: its 2025 costs and numbers held come from the ministry's replies to interpellations 14740 to 14745 (March 2026), and its places and numbers held at the end of 2025 from AIDA. The Office for Foreigners' own list of centres showed no content when we checked on 4 October 2026, so addresses and positions come from the sources named on each page and are marked approximate where they are not the publisher's own.

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