Key legal question
Whether the Swiss licence should have been granted definitively rather than on probation after the 2008 exchange of the foreign licence.
Extracted holding
No. The decisive date is the move of residence to Switzerland, not the later exchange date; at that time he had held the foreign licence for less than one year, so a probationary Swiss licence was correctly issued.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 44a VZV and the ASTRA instructions tie the decision to residence in Switzerland. Using the exchange date would allow circumvention of the probation regime.