For the first time in his life, Dal Diyali will be a citizen of a country.
He speaks with pride and excitement about his preparations to apply for United States citizenship and to take the official citizenship test. “It will be the first time I officially will be able to call a country my own,” he explains.
Ethnically Nepali Bhutanese residents can apply for legal citizenship at age eighteen, but Dal fled Bhutan when he was fourteen, so he has never held citizenship. After his escape from Bhutan, he lived in UNHCR-managed refugee camps in eastern Nepal.
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http://www.rescue.org/us-program/us-seattle-wa/citizen-first-time
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