Key legal question
Whether the appeal could be treated as administrative law appeal against the cantonal non-entry decision
Extracted holding
It could not: administrative law appeal was unavailable because no federal entitlement to the residence permit existed.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 100(1)(b) no. 3 OG, appeals in foreigners law are excluded where federal law grants no claim; by the unity of proceedings, this also covers non-entry decisions. The applicant had no claim under Art. 17(2) ANAG because he no longer lived together with his wife, and no claim could be derived from Art. 8 ECHR without an intact marital relationship.