Adjustment of Status and Green Card Category Asylee Refugee Eligibility People who were granted asylum status by USCIS or a relevant immigration court and have been physically present in the U.S. for at least one year since the grant.
Differently, with the local integration strategy, refugees must apply for asylum and, once acquiring refugee status, refugees must go through a process of social, cultural, economic inclusion. The difference between local integration and resettlement involves the efforts by the host country to include...