Key legal question
Whether the children had a statutory right to family reunification under Art. 17(2) ANAG and Art. 8 ECHR
Extracted holding
The children were in principle entitled to reunification because they were unmarried and under 18, but only if the family relationship was actually lived and reunification was necessary to maintain it.
Extracted reasoning
The Court confirmed the general entitlement for minor unmarried children of a Swiss citizen, but stressed that where only one parent lives in Switzerland, reunification is not unconditional and requires genuine family-ties and necessity.