Children of Belarusian refugees living in Poland are being barred from routine school trips abroad because they cannot legally travel on expired Belarusian passports and face waits of up to 18 months for Polish travel documents. Renewing a Belarusian passport requires a visit to Minsk, which is effectively impossible for the roughly half a million Belarusians who have fled to Poland since the 2020 crackdown, as returning risks arrest by President Alexander Lukashenko's security services. The situation means that refugee children, though safe in Poland, remain unable to leave the country for months or years at a time — a bureaucratic consequence of political repression that sets them sharply apart from their classmates.