Key legal question
Whether the federal administrative appeal was admissible despite the general exclusion for discretionary residence permits
Extracted holding
The appeal was admissible because the married applicant could in principle rely on a statutory right under Art. 7(1) ANAG; whether that right actually existed was a merits question.
Extracted reasoning
A spouse of a Swiss citizen has, in principle, a legal entitlement to a residence permit. The court therefore treated admissibility separately from the substantive abuse-of-rights assessment.