nope. You clearly don't understand how the asylum system works. You don't have to claim it inside the dictatorship you are trying to get out of, and frankly, that would be impractical, anyway.
The fact is, they gave her a green card to work here while they considered her case. It shouldn't take 8 years to do that, though. We should have enough lawyers and judges working on this so these cases can be resolved in a year.
But they still qualify.
Let's not forget, a German family has been here for 17 years claiming "asylum" because the German Government doesn't allow Home Schooling. (A policy I kind of wish we had in this country!) Nobody was going to murder these people or imprison them or make them give up their faith, they just had to follow a law they didn't like. And the religious right was all in their corner because they were white.... I mean they were Christian.
In 2023, the Christian family said their status had been revoked without warning.
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