>>6802769 (lb)
Ex Scientologist here. In 2010 I helped compile a website with another ex.
http://www.exposescientology.com
I put together the attached exhaustive pdf of Scientology Religious Worker Visa decisions downloaded from U.G. government website. Most of them are no longer available on the internet, I grabbed them before the government deleted them around 2011. Try scanning through the parts I highlighted. Total fuckery.
Kids as young as 6 years old signing a billion year contract to work as staff. Scientology defended this as "reasonable". Go to pages 29 and 30 of the pdf, here is an excerpt:
[Deleted] states "the Sea Org functions . . . in all essential aspects the same way as religious orders within the Roman Catholic Church or communities of monks within Buddhism." [Deleted] cites "[m]embers' vows of service [and] their abstemious lifestyle," and stresses the "highest levels of knowledge, skill and religious commitment" encountered among members of the Sea Org. [Deleted] never mentions the beneficiary specifically. The assertion that membership in the Sea Org is inherently indicative of the "highest levels of knowledge, skill and religious commitment" does not readily appear to be compatible with the documented fact that the beneficiary signed the Contract with the Sea Org at the age of six years, an age at which children are generally not considered competent to enter into legal agreements, let alone permanent vows.
... While the petitioner has submitted numerous background documents about Scientology, none of these documents set forth the minimum requirements that one must meet in order to join the Sea Org. Without such documents, a generally-worded affidavit attesting to the "highest level of knowledge" of Sea Org members carries little weight.
There remains the point that the petitioner allowed a six-year-old child to sign a billion-year Contract with the Sea Org, which necessarily raises the question of who the church would not permit to sign such a Contract.
http://www.exposescientology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/aao-decision-summary.pdf
http://www.exposescientology.com/church-of-scientology-religious-worker-visas-research-index/