Judgment ordering Moroccan woman to leave country appealed

A married couple this morning filed a Constitutional appeal from a judgment which had ordered the woman to leave the country and requested the retraction of her freedom of movement. Saaidia Chabab, a Moroccan, married Mario Farrugia in May 2002 and in March 2008, she was given a residential permit valid until March 2012. In January 2009, the police carried an inspection to see if the woman was actually living with her husband and found that she had left the house three weeks earlier. She was actually living with her sister, who also lived Milouda Mangion, who also lived in Malta. The police informed the Expatriates and Citizenship Department and an order was issued for her freedom of movement to be cancelled. The couple, however, got back together. In March 2010, another inspection was carried out and this time, Ms Chabab had been not living at the matrimonial home for three months. In July, Mr Farrugia informed the director of the Expatriates and Citizenship Department that he and his wife were not living together anymore. Another order was issued for her freedom of movement to be retracted and she was ordered to leave the country. But the couple moved back together and filed a...