Key legal question
Whether the appellant still had a right to renewal of the residence permit or to a settlement permit under Art. 7 ANAG
Extracted holding
No. The marriage was only formally intact, with no realistic prospect of resuming marital life, so reliance on the marriage was abusive.
Extracted reasoning
The spouses ended the common household after about one year, never resumed it, the wife repeatedly announced she would seek divorce at the first legally possible time, and the appellant could not show any concrete prospect of reconciliation before the five-year threshold.