diff --git a/capella2polarion/connectors/polarion_worker.py b/capella2polarion/connectors/polarion_worker.py
index 6a9e103..0bbee57 100644
--- a/capella2polarion/connectors/polarion_worker.py
+++ b/capella2polarion/connectors/polarion_worker.py
@@ -146,11 +146,12 @@ def delete_orphaned_work_items(
             ):
                 logger.info("Delete work item %r...", wi.id)
                 work_items.append(wi)
-            try:
-                self.project_client.work_items.delete(work_items)
-            except polarion_api.PolarionApiException as error:
-                logger.error("Deleting work items failed. %s", error.args[0])
-                raise error
+
+        try:
+            self.project_client.work_items.delete(work_items)
+        except polarion_api.PolarionApiException as error:
+            logger.error("Deleting work items failed. %s", error.args[0])
+            raise error
 
         self.polarion_data_repo.remove_work_items_by_capella_uuid(uuids)
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0427775..e0e2fcb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "capellambse_context_diagrams>=0.5.0,<0.6",
   "click",
   "PyYAML",
-  "polarion-rest-api-client==1.2.1",
+  "polarion-rest-api-client==1.2.2",
   "bidict",
   "cairosvg",
   "jinja2",