Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the appellant was entitled to free legal aid in the Department proceedings
Decisione estratta
The request for free legal aid had to be denied because the underlying complaint was hopeless.
Motivazione estratta
Under Art. 65(1) VwVG, legal aid is granted only if the party is indigent and the request is not manifestly without prospects. The Department reasonably deemed the complaint hopeless, in particular because the appellant did not address the finding that he had used a forged document to prove loss of Georgian nationality and that official inquiries found no basis for his claim.