Key legal question
Whether the appellant still had a statutory right to renewal of her residence permit after separation from her spouse.
Extracted holding
No. Under Art. 17(2) first sentence LSEE, the right exists only while the spouses live together; the long-term separation and lack of prospects of reconciliation ended that right.
Extracted reasoning
The spouses had lived apart since 2001, the separation was not merely temporary, and no concrete steps toward resuming cohabitation were shown. The husband's violence did not change the legal outcome.