The Syrian refugee crisis that strucked the European Union in 2015 is of particular
concern to the international community. Some European countries made policy by
refusing the presence of refugees. Responding to the situation the government of German
issued a policy that is “ the open door policy” for the refugees. The purpose of this thesis
is to know the influence of open door policy toward Syrian refugee protection in
Europian Union country relates to International Refugee law. The research used
literature research methods and data sources used are primary and secondary data from
international agreements, other legal opinions as well as data on the development of
Syrian refugee protection presented by the Government of German through BAMF or
Federal Office for Immigration and Refugees. The data were analyzed by descriptive
method of analysis and concluded by deductive method. Based on data analysis, it can be
concluded that the open door policy conducted by Germany is in accordance with
International Refugee law principle, 1951 Convention concerning Refugee Status and
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This research shows that the policy is also an
effort to support the development of non-refoulment principle implementation.