The European Court of Human Rights plays a subsidiary role in the protection of the rights and freedoms set forth in the Convention. To enable national authorities to perform their primary role, it is important that the Court offers sufficient guidance on the interpretation of the Convention. It has already been argued that the case law of the Court on the right to respect for family life in immigration cases, lacks consistency in terms of procedural and substantive protection. The inconsistency in the case law is mostly the case in the admission and regularisation case law. This manifests itself in specific issues including the determination of whether an interference has occurred as well as the court’s determination of the best interests of the child. Consequently, the case law difficult to apply by national authorities which leads to widely diverging practices by the Contracting Parties. The objective of this article is to outline the differences and inconsistencies in the different forms of immigration cases and the corresponding compliance tests of the Court. The article aims to offer a solution that would enable both the Court and the Contracting Parties to differentiate the level of protection that is offered by Article 8 in immigration cases, while providing sufficient guidance to national decision-making authorities and judiciaries so that they can efficiently and effectively exercise the primary role they play in the protection of the right to respect for family life in immigration cases.

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在事实与规范之间：测试移民案件中是否符合 ECHR 第 8 条

欧洲人权法院在保护公约规定的权利和自由方面发挥辅助作用。为了使国家当局能够发挥其主要作用，法院必须就《公约》的解释提供足够的指导。已经有人争辩说，法院关于在移民案件中尊重家庭生活的权利的判例法在程序和实质性保护方面缺乏一致性。判例法的不一致主要出现在接纳和规范化判例法中。这体现在具体问题上，包括确定是否发生了干涉以及法院对儿童最大利益的确定。最后，国家当局难以适用判例法，导致缔约方的做法大相径庭。本文的目的是概述不同形式的移民案件的差异和不一致之处，以及法院相应的合规性测试。该条款旨在提供一种解决方案，使法院和缔约方能够区分第 8 条在移民案件中提供的保护水平，同时为国家决策当局和司法机构提供足够的指导，以便他们能够有效地并有效地发挥他们在保护移民案件中尊重家庭生活的权利方面所发挥的主要作用。本文的目的是概述不同形式的移民案件的差异和不一致之处，以及法院相应的合规性测试。该条款旨在提供一种解决方案，使法院和缔约方能够区分第 8 条在移民案件中提供的保护水平，同时为国家决策当局和司法机构提供足够的指导，以便他们能够有效地并有效地发挥他们在保护移民案件中尊重家庭生活的权利方面所发挥的主要作用。本文的目的是概述不同形式的移民案件的差异和不一致之处，以及法院相应的合规性测试。该条款旨在提供一种解决方案，使法院和缔约方能够区分第 8 条在移民案件中提供的保护水平，同时为国家决策当局和司法机构提供足够的指导，以便他们能够有效地并有效地发挥他们在保护移民案件中尊重家庭生活的权利方面所发挥的主要作用。