Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the appellants qualify for an exemption from foreigner quota limits under Art. 13 lit. f OLE as a personal hardship case.
Decisione estratta
Yes. The family, assessed as a whole, faced a severe personal hardship; the daughters' deep integration and the mother's precarious situation justified exemption.
Motivazione estratta
Although holders of legitimacy cards linked to diplomatic functions normally cannot rely on the hardship exception, these applicants could not reasonably expect to return to the family environment they had left, because the father had formed a new family and abandoned them. The mother alone did not meet the threshold, but the two older daughters' long schooling, adolescence spent in Switzerland, and strong ties made forced return an excessive rupture for the family.