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The Ombudsman against Discrimination on grounds of Sexual Orientation has ceased to exist. On 1 January 2009 the Ombudsman was merged with the other Ombudsmen against discrimination into a new body: the Swedish Equality Ombudsman. The previously existing acts against discrimination were also replaced with a new Discrimination Act. Some of the material on this website may therefore be out of date. For more information, see: www.do.se
National Board of Student Aid – Study loan – Foreign citizen – Civil
partner A citizen of Morocco complained to HomO that the National Board of Student Aid (CSN) had rejected his application for financial support for studies on the grounds that he did not have a permanent residence permit. He said that that CSN had not taken into account the fact that he had a civil partnership with a Swedish man. According to CSN’s regulations and the general guidelines for the Study Support Act – which were particularly difficult to understand in HomO’s opinion – a permit for permanent residence in Sweden was a requirement for receipt of financial assistance for a student of 20 years of age or more who was not a Swedish citizen or a citizen of an EU/EEA country. The permanent residence permit requirement also applied to a person who was married to, or a civil partner of, or a cohabitant of a Swedish citizen. It made no difference whether the partner was of the same sex or the opposite sex. In other words, the rules for student support dealt with homosexual and heterosexual applicants in the same manner. As a result, HomO considered that the rules were not discriminatory on the grounds of sexual orientation. (Decision of 12 December 2002, Dossier No. 293/02) |
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HomO | Box 3327, 103 66 Stockholm | E-mail: homo@homo.se | Phone: +46 (0)8 508 887 80 | Fax: +46 (0)8 508 887 90 |
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