Asylum is refugee status. He can get a green card.
What a joke, the government agreed to let him have his claim yesterday. I just don't believe a damn thing he claims.
Apparently the Shin Bet does, since his handler for the Shin Bet came to testify on his behalf and has been interviewed several times on behalf of Mosab Hassan Yousef.
And having helped the Israelis capture some hard-core Hamas killers and organizers, that some leaders in the Hamas didn't even know about, plus helping the Israelis figure out things about Hamas that they couldn't even decipher ... I would say that goes a long ways, with Israel, in their estimation of him ... :-)