Key legal question
Whether the Federal Administrative Court correctly refused legal aid by finding the underlying naturalization appeal hopeless.
Extracted holding
Yes. Given the applicant's recent deeds of default and ongoing enforcement proceedings, an appeal against the naturalization refusal had no serious prospects of success.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 29(3) Cst., legal aid is denied when a case lacks prospects of success. The established practice treats recent deeds of default and pending enforcement proceedings as obstacles to facilitated naturalization unless the debtor shows circumstances not attributable to him. No such circumstances were shown here.