Question juridique clé
Whether the federal public-law appeal was admissible because the applicants could derive a right to family reunification from Article 8 ECHR.
Solution extraite
The appeal was inadmissible because no protected family-life relationship creating a claim to admission was shown.
Motifs extraits
Outside the core family, Article 8 ECHR requires a special dependency relationship between the person settled in Switzerland and the foreign applicant. The findings showed that the mother was healthy and not dependent on the son; rather, the family needed support, which could also come from third persons.