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[rojo]

Well, at the moment I wouldn't risk visiting the COP, but before when they were more reasonable, your circumstances mattered. For secondary applicants who weren't persecuted, there is often very little issue in visiting the COP. Just because you're, say, married to or the child of the primary, it doesn't mean you were/are at risk. Secondly, even if you're the primary, you can be persecuted as a resident, but as a visitor, you might not. It's also possible that the conditions have changed, and persecution is no longer a problem, so the primary applicant can then go.

In the end, it is the evaluation of these circumstances, and your ability to explain and document your reasons for going, that will determine your chance of success at naturalization. Again, this was before. Now, I'd be a lot more careful.

I second that but I'd take no chances even as a derivative asylee (or even LPR as a result of derivative asylee status). Neither under current nor under any other administration even under Biden's. Just my two cents.

Become a US citizen and do what you want because USCIS technically won't care but if you listen to immigration attorney Jim Hacking on YouTube, he claims if you naturalized as a result of your granted asylum initially you shouldn't travel to country of persecution even then.

I personally don't agree with him, I think once you're a US citizen you should be OK to travel but I know most asylee US citizens will NEVER travel to their COP even after becoming a US citizen since it may still be dangerous for them to ever to return.

I also know of someone who travelled to COP DIRECTLY as an LPR based on granted asylum and was able to come back under Trump 1.0. I don't know what that person answered to CBP but I know that person eventually got naturalized.