firmly resettled

Section 203(a)(7) requires that 'physical presence in the United States (be) a consequence of an alien's flight in search of refuge,' and further that 'the physical presence must be one which is reasonably proximate to the flight and not one following a flight remote in point of time or interrupted by intervening residence in a third country reasonably constituting a termination of the original flight in search of refuge.

Defined by the Supreme Court in - Rosenberg v. Yee Chien Woo, 402 U.S. 49 (1971).