Key legal question
Whether the residence permit could be refused renewal under Art. 62 lit. b AuG after a long prison sentence.
Extracted holding
Yes. A sentence exceeding one year counts as a longer-term custodial sentence, regardless of whether it is conditional, partly conditional, or unconditional.
Extracted reasoning
The applicant was sentenced to 36 months for narcotics offences, so the statutory ground for non-renewal was met.