Key legal question
Whether the administrative law appeal was admissible despite no statutory or treaty right to a residence permit
Extracted holding
The appeal was inadmissible because the applicants had no enforceable right to the requested residence permit.
Extracted reasoning
No federal provision, treaty, or the foreign nationals ordinance conferred such a right; Article 8 ECHR also did not apply because the applicants were adults not in a dependency situation preventing return to China.