A family who fled a Nazi-era homeschooling ban in Germany to settle in the United States is scheduled for a hearing tomorrow before an immigration judge who is being asked to grant them asylum from the persecution they would face if they returned.

WND reported two years ago on the day police knocked on the door of the home of Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and forcibly escorted their children to public school. Then WND reported again just a few months ago when the family fled Germany, with the help of the U.S.-based Home School Legal Defense Association, and settled in the United States.

Now, as the time for a decision in their request to remain in the U.S. approaches, the Associated Press has profiled the family, living in Morristown, Tenn.

The parents and five children, whose flight was funded partly by Uwe Romeike’s decision to sell his grand pianos, live in a duplex northeast of Knoxville. They are asking for asylum because of the persecution they would face for evangelical Christian beliefs that include their personal responsibility to teach their own children…