Key legal question
Whether the public-law appeal was admissible and whether the daughter had a right to a permit under Art. 17 LDDS.
Extracted holding
The appeal was admissible because Art. 17 cpv. 2 LDDS conferred, in principle, a right for an unmarried child under 18 living with the parent to be included in the parent's settlement permit.
Extracted reasoning
At the time of the request the mother already had a settlement permit and the daughter was under 18, so the statutory right to family reunification existed; it was unnecessary to rely on Art. 8 ECHR or Art. 13 of the Constitution.