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Equal Treatment in the Statute, and the Conditions Somewhere Else

Answer

The general rule applies to you

No exception is recorded for citizens of Paraguay on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.

98 exceptions recorded across 37 countries · none match Paraguay to Italy · Residency as a student

The immigration Act's education article is written as a guarantee rather than as a procedure: equal treatment between a foreigner and an Italian citizen in access to technical and higher education courses and to the measures that support the right to study, within the limits the article itself sets. Higher education institutions are told to promote access by foreigners within their autonomy and their budgets. What a student visa and permit require is not in this article.

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At a glance

What the Act guarantees
Equal treatment with Italian citizens in access to the courses it names
Support for the right to study
Covered by the same guarantee
What institutions are told to do
Promote access, within their autonomy and their budgets
The visa and the permit
Not in this article

The conditions for a study permit are elsewhere in the Act and in the visa decree, neither read here.

Requirements

  • Admission to a course of the kind the article covers

What applies to you

Nothing changes for a citizen of Paraguay

We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.

What the law says

Text layer - verbatim verifiedDecreto legislativo 25 luglio 1998, n. 286, Testo unico sull'immigrazione, testo vigente · Articolo 39, commi 1 e 2
«In materia di accesso ai corsi di istruzione e formazione tecnico superiore, ai corsi degli Istituti tecnico superiori e alla formazione superiore, nonche' agli interventi per il diritto allo studio, e' assicurata la parita' di trattamento tra lo straniero e il cittadino italiano, nei limiti e con le modalita' di cui al presente articolo. 2. Le istituzioni di formazione superiore, nella loro autonomia e nei limiti delle loro disponibilita' finanziarie, assumono iniziative volte al conseguimento degli obiettivi del documento programmatico di cui all'articolo 3, promuovendo l'accesso degli stranieri ai corsi universitari e di alta formazione artistica, musicale e coreutica, tenendo conto degli orientamenti comunitari in materia, in particolare riguar»

The guarantee and the instruction to institutions. The quotation ends where the exported line ends.

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Cannot be cited for: It gives the text and not its interpretation. Article 3-bis reads clearly and has still generated years of litigation over what it means, which is why the Constitutional Court is watched alongside it. A consolidated text can also lag a very recent amendment.

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Practical notes

This record states what the statute guarantees. A reader who wants the fees, the quotas for foreign applicants or the visa procedure will not find them here, and the record says so rather than filling the gap with a ministry page.

Access to compulsory schooling for minors is a different article of the same Act and is not read here.

Sources1 · all accessed 2026-10-09
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    Testo unico sull'immigrazione, articolo 39

    Normattiva, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri

    About this source

    The Italian state's portal for legislation in force. It shows each article as currently amended, with an explicit testo in vigore dal date, and links the amending instruments.

    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: It gives the text and not its interpretation. Article 3-bis reads clearly and has still generated years of litigation over what it means, which is why the Constitutional Court is watched alongside it. A consolidated text can also lag a very recent amendment.

    We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source