The case of the German Traditionalist Catholic To give a brief overview of the case, the German traditionalist catholic, together with his family want to apply for protection visas under Australian immigration law. They cite religious persecution as the reason to why they want to be granted with the protection visa. According to them, their religious faith does not permit them to send their children to public schools, as is the case in Australia. They want to home-school their children, but Australian educational authorities and the police would hear none of it as it is illegal, according to Australian laws to home-school children. In this perspective, the authorities and police are seeking to remove the children from their parents’ care and place them to foster homes. But the parents, alleging religious persecution, want to apply for protection visa. For an applicant to be eligible for a protection visa in Australia, he or she must present a specific claim to be a person to whom Australia owes protection obligations under the refugees’ convention. According to Fact sheet 61 of the Australian Immigration Laws (2008), Australia is bound to provide asylum seekers who meet the United Nations definition of a refugee with protection. According to Human rights and Refugees (2008), the refugee definition was established during the 1967 protocol relating to the status of refugees and the 1951 refugee convention, to which Australia is a signatory. According to Vrachnas et al. (2005), refugees are:   * individuals who are outside their usual country of residence or their country of nationality;   * individuals unwilling, unable to return, or to seek protection from that country due to well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of religion, nationality, race, political opinion, or membership to a particular social group.   * Individuals who have not committed serious non-political crimes, and are not war criminals. Though abolished on 9 th August 2008, the temporary protection visas had been introduced by the Howard government in 2002 to cater for persons fleeing from persecution. Ever since it was scrapped, individuals who now qualify for Australia protection obligations receive a permanent protection visa (Human Rights and Refugees, 2008). According to Suhad et al. (2008), the basic requirements that individuals need to meet for them to be accorded the protection visa are processed by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC). In the case of my German traditionalist’s friends, it is worth noting that the humanitarian Migration component, international conventions, and the laws that underpin it are greatly influenced by Australia’s obligations under international law to a larger degree than to any other area of the migration law. According to the DIAC fact sheet 68 (2008), for one to qualify for the permanent protection visa, otherwise called the Resolution of Status (RoS) (Subclass 851) visa, security, health, and character requirements must be carefully scrutinized. Apparently, these are the only requirements that individuals need to meet for them to be considered. To this extent, the German traditionalist catholic qualifies to be granted the protection visa.