Question juridique clé
Whether the appellant could claim a residence permit under Art. 8 ECHR based on visitation rights to his Swiss son.
Solution extraite
No. The relationship was not shown to be especially close in an economic and emotional sense, and the appellant's conduct in Switzerland was not blameless.
Motifs extraits
A non-custodial parent generally does not obtain a right to permanent residence from visitation rights alone. Such a right exists only in exceptional cases, in particular where the relationship is especially close, cannot reasonably be maintained from abroad, and the parent has behaved impeccably; those conditions were not met here.