German home-school family 'will not be deported' from US
A family who left Germany so they could home-school their children in the US will not be deported despite being denied asylum, their lawyer has said. US immigration officials have deferred action on the Romeike family's case, its supporters said.
Uwe, the father, applied for asylum in the US, arguing his family faced persecution in Germany, where almost all children are required to attend schools approved by the German government. A Tennessee judge initially granted the asylum request, but an appeals court overturned that ruling.
A hearing at the US Supreme Court was the Romeikes' last hope for legal asylum. "Germany is a democratic country and it chooses to make attendance in schools mandatory. It offers many choices of school - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, private, public - every imaginable sort," Professor David Abraham, an expert on immigration and citizenship law at the University of Miami School of Law, told the BBC in November.
"What they can't call persecution is the obligation to attend school with other children. That's an important social value that the German legislature has adopted."
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