Re: EU law, your children and their schooling in another EU country.

Byron49 · 2013-07-04T03:48:10+02:00

Learn about EU laws regarding schooling for children of EU citizens in Malta, including rights to language support and placement in age-appropriate classes.

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Byron49Guest04 July 2013 01:48:10

The children of EU citizens are entitled to attend school in any EU country under the same conditions as nationals of that country.

They have the right to be placed in a class with their own age group, at the equivalent level to their class in your country of origin 聳 regardless of their language level.

If you are an EU national migrating to another EU country for work, your children are entitled under EU law to receive free language tuition in your new home country to help them adapt to the school system there...................................................'

Source:

If you experience any institutional difficulties in this regard, file a petition with The European Parliament Committee on Petitions online in any of the official languages of the European Union.

Simply click on this internet link to do so:

Byron49 Guest

Byron49Guest04 July 2013 03:08:16

In addition, the practice of not permitting EU/EEA/Swiss children to attend school unless and until their parent/s obtain an 聭e-Residence Card聮 is illegal because an 聭e-Residence Card聮聭may under no circumstances be made a precondition for the exercise of a right or the completion of an administrative formality, because entitlement to rights may be attested by any other means of proof.聮

See page 36: Article 25 - Section 1: General provisions concerning residence documents

mantonas Serial expat

Member since 21 August 2012

mantonasSerial expat04 July 2013 20:59:23

707

It's nice to know Byron49!

To be honest, I did not have any problem in regards to register my into a public school here in Malta. I have managed to do it without the Resendency document.

Byron49 Guest

Byron49Guest05 July 2013 01:40:35

Thank you for your feedback, mantonas.

However, I regret that the positive outcome you experienced is not standard:

Please see the following submitted elsewhere in this forum by a UK family:

聭Hi all. Moved to Gozo in Feb (Xaghra) and we couldn't get our daughter to school until after Easter due to the new residency laws聟聟聟聟聟聟.聮

Source: /forum/viewtopic.php?id=259252

mantonas Serial expat

Member since 21 August 2012

mantonasSerial expat05 July 2013 12:34:24

707

You are right Byron49 and I am bit surprised that happened. The problem I reckon is due to the fact that not everybody actually knows the laws and its rules and then they just act depending on their own interpretation of the same.

It's nice you bringing us the correct details about the different laws coz that way, people have some sort of knowledge and guidelines about how they actually are.

Cheerio,
Antonio