Asylum is living legally in a country, it ranges all the way from homelessness to a penthouse. You may be thinking of "waiting for asylum", at the equivalent of concentration camps. Not every asylum seeker has to go through that, for example people from Ukraine in the EU got a fast-tracked refugee status:

https://unric.org/en/ukraine-over-6-million-refugees-spread-across-europe/

[–] ErsatzCoalButter 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not Ukranian, I can't benefit from that. HBU?

[–] jarfil 2 points 3 weeks ago

As I said:

At some point, some countries will start granting asylum to US refugees.

I'm a EU citizen. Some people want to copy the US, but we're still at the "trying to stop them" phase, not at the "impending doom" phase.