Questão jurídica principal
Whether the complaint against the Federal Administrative Court's cost-advance order was admissible and well-founded.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The cost-advance order was unlawful because the pending legal-aid request should have been forwarded to the competent court and treated as filed there.
Fundamentação extraída
Under Art. 8(1) and Art. 21(2) VwVG, an authority lacking competence must forward an application without delay, and a timely filing with the wrong authority preserves the deadline. The Federal Office should therefore have transmitted the legal-aid request and related suspension request to the Federal Administrative Court.