Key legal question
Whether the family qualified for an exemption from quota limits under Art. 13 lit. f OLE.
Extracted holding
No exceptional personal hardship was shown; the family could not be exempted from the quota limits.
Extracted reasoning
The Court held that the illegal stay could not be credited, that the family’s ties to Switzerland were not so exceptional as to outweigh the illegality of their presence, and that their professional, social, and family circumstances did not amount to a personal situation of extreme hardship. The children were still too young for return to constitute an irreparable uprooting.