The Honduran mother seen in an iconic photo frantically pulling her young children away from tear gas at the US-Mexico border has been allowed into the United States to seek asylum, officials said.

Maria Meza and her five children began to seek asylum late Monday after waiting more than four hours near the Otay Mesa port of entry in San Diego, politicians, lawyers and advocates with them said.

“After 7hrs, I can now confirm Maria Meza & her kids — featured in this @Reuters image fleeing tear gas at the border last month — just filed for asylum. They’re on American soil,” tweeted Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), who waited with the group.

Meza’s family and eight unaccompanied minors are being processed, the advocacy organization Families Belong Together said Tuesday.

The 35-year-old mother of five was captured in a widely circulated photo clutching the arms of her twin 5-year-old daughters and running from plumes of tear gas fired by American forces Nov. 25.

She was among hundreds of Central American migrants who approached the border, with some trying to storm the fence.

A family of five and two adult men, who also traveled with the caravan, remained at the border in Tijuana on Tuesday in hopes of claiming asylum, NBC News reported.

A system called “metering” limits the number of asylum seekers at US ports of entry each day.

Sometimes officers will allow people considered vulnerable, like unaccompanied children, to be processed more swiftly.

US Customs and Border Patrol agents had said the port of entry was full Monday, Gomez said, but hours later, they allowed the Meza family and the minors to pass through.

With Post wires