Key legal question
Whether the family reunification request was timely under Art. 47 AuG and transitional Art. 126(3) AuG.
Extracted holding
The request was late because the relevant one-year period had expired at the end of 2008; later custody transfer and naturalization did not restart the deadline.
Extracted reasoning
For family members already in existence before the AuG entered into force, the transitional rule makes the deadlines run from 1 January 2008. The children were already over 12 then, so the one-year deadline applied.