Key legal question
Whether the federal procedural law and former ANAG remained applicable to an expulsion procedure initiated before 1 January 2008.
Extracted holding
The former law applied because the expulsion procedure had been initiated before the entry into force of the AuG.
Extracted reasoning
The decisive step was the 23 July 2007 hearing letter, which opened the procedure before 1 January 2008; it did not matter that the decision was taken ex officio and only later.