The applicant, Diana Begilia Arvelo Aponte, is a Venezuelan national who was born in 1964 and currently lives in Amsterdam. She arrived in the Netherlands in 2000 as a tourist. She started a relationship with a Dutch national whom she subsequently married. They had a son in 2004. Relying on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy), she complains about the Government’s refusal to grant her a residence permit on account of a previous conviction for a drugs offence in Germany.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)