Key legal question
Whether the cancellation of facilitated naturalization under Art. 41 BüG was justified because the applicant allegedly obtained it by false statements about an intact marital union.
Extracted holding
Yes. The short interval between the declaration, naturalization, separation, and divorce, combined with the surrounding circumstances, supported the conclusion that the marriage was already broken and the naturalization had been obtained deceptively.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 41 BüG requires more than mere absence of conditions; the naturalization must have been fraudulently obtained. The court accepted the factual presumption arising from the chronology and found the applicant failed to provide a plausible innocent explanation.