What is an asylum seeker?

Question

What is an asylum seeker?

Answer 1

an asylum seeker is a very technologically advanced nation, and every citizen can program their own VCR's........without spilling pipin' hot gravy all over myself

Answer 2

An Asylum seeker is a person who comes into a country and is seeking assistance and protection from their country of origin, to, in a manner of speaking, defect from that country.

Answer 3

Asylum is a form of protection that allows individuals who are in the United States to remain here, provided that they meet the definition of a refugee and are not barred from either applying for or being granted asylum, and eventually to adjust their status to lawful permanent resident.

Every year, thousands of people come to the United States in need of protection because they have been persecuted or fear they will be persecuted on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Those found eligible for asylum are permitted to remain in the United States.

Unlike the U.S. Refugee Program, which provides protection to refugees by bringing them to the United States for resettlement, the U.S. Asylum Program provides protection to qualified refugees who are already in the United States or are seeking entry into the United States at a port of entry. Asylum-seekers may apply for asylum in the United States regardless of their countries of origin. There are no quotas on the number of individuals who may be granted asylum each year (with the exception of individuals whose claims are based solely on persecution for resistance to coercive population control measures).