In January 2010, a United States immigration judge granted asylum to a German homeschooling family Romeike, apparently based on this ban on homeschooling.News reports arising from the judgment at Deutsche Welle (in English) 27 Jan 2010; The Telegraph 27 Jan 2010; The Guardian 27 Jan 2010; The Economist 4 Feb 2010. In April 2013, a decision by a U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals court overruled this and denied the petition for asylum, on the grounds that Germany's law applies to every resident, and does not single out any specific religious group for persecution. A petition of March 2013 for granting full and permanent legal status to the family received a White House reply in August 2013 without comment on the legal case. In March 2014, the Supreme Court declined to hear the family's appeal,Sarah Pulliam Bailey: Supreme Court rejects asylum bid for German home-schooling family, Washington Post, 3 March 2014 but the Department of Homeland Security granted the family indefinite deferred action status, allowing them to remain in the United States.German home-school family will not be deported from US, BBC, 5 March 2014 In February 2015, a bill was introduced that would allow up to 500 grants of asylum per fiscal year to families fleeing home school persecution.H.R.1153 – Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act of 2015, congress.gov
