Key legal question
Whether refusal of a work authorization to a rejected asylum seeker violated Article 8 ECHR.
Extracted holding
The refusal was not disproportionate in the circumstances, because the non-execution of removal was mainly due to the applicant's lack of cooperation; however, authorities must continue regular removal efforts.
Extracted reasoning
A work ban may exceptionally fall within Article 8 ECHR, but the balance usually favors execution of a negative asylum decision. Here, the applicant's long unlawful stay could not outweigh the public interest because he impeded removal by giving false information about his origin, and the mere lapse of two years without new removal steps did not yet show that removal was impossible within a foreseeable time.