Facts
[A.] is a Turkish national born on 20 January 1966. On 26 February 2021, the Migration Office of the Canton of Zurich revoked her settlement permit and issued her a residence permit. [A.] filed an appeal against this decision with the Security Directorate of the Canton of Zurich, which was dismissed on 10 June 2021.
On 14 July 2021, [A.] 's legal representative filed an electronic appeal without an electronic signature with the Administrative Court of the Canton of Zurich. On 15 July 2021, she supplemented it with a formally valid appeal sent by post. The Administrative Court did not enter into the appeal on 28 October 2021, as no formally valid appeal had been filed within the appeal deadline.
Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court examines whether the lower instance was right not to enter into the informally filed electronic appeal. It concludes that the lower instance neither applied Art. 132 para. 1 CPC arbitrarily nor violated the prohibition of excessive formalism (Art. 29 para. 1 Cst.) by not entering into the appeal and not granting the appellant a grace period to remedy the formal defect.
The appellant, as a legally…