Check your work. It actually is the requirements list for someone to be eligible to apply for asylum residence. It says "To qualify, the applicant must demonstrate that they are a refugee, defined as someone unable or unwilling to return to their home country due to persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." as stated on https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=Title+13&f=treesort&num=13209