Key legal question
Whether the complaints against refusal of a foreigner passport were admissible and could be joined.
Extracted holding
The two proceedings were joined; the complaints were admissible only against the EJPD decisions, not against the earlier federal office decisions.
Extracted reasoning
The cases were factually and legally similar. The administrative appeal lies because refusal of a foreigner passport is not a residence permit. However, the challenged object at federal level was the EJPD decision, so the earlier federal office decisions could not be directly attacked.