"Let them work!" - German business advocates for rejected asylum seekers

A seamstress is pictured while working in the sewing of the Fahnen Koessinger company in Schierling, Germany April 10, 2018. Picture taken April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

SCHIERLING, Germany (Reuters) - Denied asylum and put on deportation notice, Iranian seamstress Masoumeh Bayat in February became one of Germany's Geduldete -- "tolerated persons".

The German government acknowledges Bayat, her husband and two daughters can't return to Iran where they could face reprisal for converting from Islam to Christianity.