Question juridique clé
Whether the appellant had a right to a residence permit through family reunification
Solution extraite
Yes. As the spouse of a settled foreign resident living in a genuine marital union, he could invoke Art. 17(2) ANAG and Art. 8 ECHR.
Motifs extraits
The statutory and Convention-based family-life protection gave him a principled entitlement, so the complaint was admissible.