Key legal question
Whether the applicant still had a right to renewal of the residence permit under Art. 7 ANAG despite the separation from his Swiss spouse.
Extracted holding
No; once the marriage exists only formally and is no longer intended to resume, the permit right based on Art. 7 ANAG falls away because reliance on the marriage is abusive.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the decisive point is whether the marriage still has any real significance from the foreign spouse's perspective. The applicant openly intended to dissolve the marriage and to move on to another relationship, so he could no longer derive a permit entitlement from that marriage.