Not necessarily.
"Who Is Eligible to Apply for Asylum?
You may apply for asylum if you are at a port of entry or in the United States. You may apply for asylum regardless of your immigration status and within 1 year of your arrival to the United States.
You will not be eligible to apply for asylum if you:
Filed your application after being in the United States for more than 1 year. However, you may qualify for an exception if you show
You must still file your application within a reasonable time under the circumstances to be eligible for an exception.
- Changed circumstances materially affecting your asylum eligibility for asylum or
- Extraordinary circumstances relating to your delay in filing.
Changed circumstances may include but are not limited to:
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/...firmative-asylum-eligibility-and-applications
- Changes in conditions in your country of nationality or, if you are stateless, your country of last habitual residence
- Changes in your circumstances that materially affect your eligibility for asylum, including changes in applicable U.S. law and activities you become involved in outside the country of feared persecution that place you at risk
- If you were previously included as a dependent in someone else’s pending asylum application, the loss of the spousal or parent-child relationship to the principal applicant through marriage, divorce, death, or attainment of age 21"
Why do you keep injecting asylum cases into this discussion?