A Curious Question

[Paatay Khan 16]

Hello Vjers,

 

Someone asked me this question the other day and I was wondering what would be the answer to it. Can an asylee visit/go back to their country of origin where they claimed asylum from, after they're naturalized?

[JeanneAdil 6,510]

With US passport ,   from what i looked up he/ she can

but 

If you lied or concealed relevant facts in order to obtain U.S. citizenship, your citizenship could be revoked. This is called illegally procuring citizenship.

 

A big problem for many former asylees who are now applying for naturalization is that they make statements on their N-400 Application for Naturalization that are different from either the information they gave on their I-589 Application for Asylum or in their testimony when applying for asylum. 

 

When trying to explain to USCIS why you travelled back to your home country, think about the reasons for your travel and the precautions you took while you were there. For example, let’s say that a year or two (or more) after you received lawful permanent residence, the conditions in your home country changed and you no longer faced a risk of returning. Perhaps your government was in the middle of a civil war when you came to the United States, but now the war has ended and the different political parties are working together peacefully, making it safe for you to visit. If such a fact pattern applies to you, gather country-conditions reports and news articles showing the safer country conditions around the time you travelled.

 

 

[Paatay Khan 16]

So there's no law set in stone for this? It merely depends upon the circumstances of their country of origin when they do happen to go back after being naturalized due to the fact that there are various categories of asylum seekers for example political, same sex and religious etc.