Key legal question
Whether the children had a right to family reunification under Art. 17(2) third sentence LSEE by virtue of a preponderant family relationship with their father.
Extracted holding
No. The father had not shown that he had assumed the primary educational responsibility or that his relationship with the children outweighed their ties to their mother and country of origin.
Extracted reasoning
Regular visits and contact were insufficient. The children had always lived with their mother or grandmother abroad, and the evidence did not establish a shift of the caregiving relationship to the father.