Questão jurídica principal
Whether the public-law appeal was admissible despite Article 83(c)(2) FGG because the applicants had a residence-permit claim.
Decisão extraída
No enforceable right to a residence permit existed under the former aliens law or the limitation ordinance; the appeal was therefore excluded.
Fundamentação extraída
The request was filed before 1 January 2008, so former law applied to the substantive entitlement question. Under that law, and under the limitation ordinance, the applicants had no statutory or treaty-based claim.