The Batdavaa family has lived in Poland for last eleven years. Since 2004, they have been applying for a temporary stay permit. Both the Provincial Governor of the Malopolska region and the Office for Foreigners dismissed their applications.

Even though the family was not able to legalize their stay in Poland, they led a normal life. The Batdavaa’s children were born in Poland, and they do not know the Mongolian language or traditions. They treat Poland as their mother country. The children attend Polish schools and universities.
 
In December 2010 the father of the family was deported to the refugee centre in Przemyśl (south of Poland). Two weeks later, the mother and the 11 year old boy were also deported to this centre. In January 2011, Khash–Erdene was detained by the Border Guard at the bus station in Cracow. After that, he joined his parents and his youngest brother at the refugee centre.

The order to move the family to the refugee centre in Przemysl was given by the Provincial Governor of the Malopolska region, Stanislaw Kracik.

In January 2011, the eldest of the three children, Khash-Erdene made headlines when he defended his engineering thesis at Krakow’s University of Science and Technology (AGH) in the escort of Border Guard functionaries.

The Citizens’ Ombudsman, Irena Lipowicz, and the Childs’ Ombudsman, Marek Michalak, were looking into the case, while the local MEP, Boguslaw Sonik, was defending  the family. Almost 700 people signed a petition to the Citizens’ Ombudsman protesting the deportation of the Batdavaa family.

On 5 February 2011, the Office for Foreigners decided that the Batdavaa family may stay in Poland and awarded them a tolerated stay permit.

– Since that day the Batdavaa family may lead normal, legal life in Poland. They have right to education, labor and health care – said Ewa Piechota, the spokesman of the Office for Foreigners.