Key legal question
Whether the old ANAG or the new AuG applies to the family reunification request filed before 2008.
Extracted holding
The request must be assessed under the former ANAG because Art. 126(1) AuG preserves prior law for pending family reunification requests.
Extracted reasoning
The statutory transitional rule excludes application of the new law to this pre-2008 request; filing a new request under the new law would not change the applicable law here.