Key legal question
Whether the applicant had an enforceable right to a residence permit based on family life under Article 8 ECHR and Article 13(1) BV.
Extracted holding
No enforceable right existed because the spouse's residence status was not sufficiently secured to amount to a protected residence right.
Extracted reasoning
A family-life claim requires the resident relative to have a secure right of residence. The husband held only a residence permit granted on hardship grounds, which did not create such a secured status. The factual circumstances were also far from the exceptional situation in which a factual residence right may arise.