Key legal question
Whether the public-law appeal was admissible despite the general exclusion for residence permits.
Extracted holding
The appeal was admissible because the appellant had, in principle, a statutory and Convention-based entitlement to renewal of the residence permit.
Extracted reasoning
Under former ANAG Art. 17(2), a spouse of a settled foreigner living in a common household has an entitlement to renewal; the same result followed from family-life protection under Art. 8 ECHR and Art. 13 BV.