Key legal question
Whether an ordinary public-law appeal was admissible against the refusal of residence permits
Extracted holding
No ordinary public-law appeal lay because neither federal law nor international law conferred a right to the requested permits, and the OLS derogation decision was excluded from this remedy.
Extracted reasoning
The matter fell under Art. 83 lit. c nos. 2 and 5 LTF; the applicants could not derive an enforceable entitlement from Art. 8 ECHR or the OLS.