Question juridique clé
Whether legal aid should be granted for the appeal before the Department on statelessness recognition
Solution extraite
The appeal was correctly treated as hopeless, so legal aid had to be refused.
Motifs extraits
Persons who voluntarily gave up nationality or refuse without good reason to regain it do not fall under the Statelessness Convention. The file showed he had deliberately caused the loss of Georgian nationality and had not shown sufficient efforts to recover it.