Key legal question
Whether the applicant retained a right to renewal of the residence permit or to a settlement permit under Art. 7 ANAG despite divorce and alleged sham marriage
Extracted holding
The applicant had no enforceable right to a settlement permit or to renewal of the residence permit because the marriage was either a sham or, at the latest, had irretrievably broken down before the five-year period expired.
Extracted reasoning
The court relied on multiple indicators of an immigration marriage and held that, even absent a sham marriage, the spouses had not maintained a genuine common life long enough for the five-year entitlement to arise.