 The Vietnamese community have come here over the last four years and today culminating in citizenship for the first group of those who came here in 2008. This has been a program of 5,000 refugees over four or five years. This is the first group that have reached the four year mark in terms of acquiring the right for citizenship and it's a pretty exciting moment for them because they've come from Nepal where they were in a refugee centre for nearly 20 years so for them it's very exciting to be able to go in Australian citizenship and to be a member of the community here. I left Bhutan with my three children and wife and finally landed in the refugee camp in Nepal which was run by the UNHCR for 18 years we were in the camp and the life in the refugee camp is really difficult to live there and then there came a program called Heart Country Resettlement and that gave us a new hope of living again we were so happy I was the first person to choose Australia. I had heard Australia is very peaceful as a very beautiful country and which I am seeing now it is really a beautiful country and very peaceful. This day came after 20 long years of waiting so we can't express in words how happy we are. Our life has been transformed, our despair and all the struggles has been completed and we are very happy and we are living as a very good community here. Because we have been living in a refugee camp situation for 20 long years without a country, without a citizen it was very very important for us to belong to a country. We discussed with the community and we found many people who were interested and we decided that we will do it as a big group. The last 15-20 years we have been celebrating refugee day in the refugee camp and on that day every time we said we want to go back home. Every year we on that day we say we don't want to be refugees. We are very fortunate that the Government of Australia decided to invite us to this country and we thought that let us celebrate the end of our refugee life on a refugee week itself to know ourselves, to feel ourselves that we are no longer refugees. We are normal citizens of a great nation called Australia. Now I can proudly call that I am Australian, proud Australian and I have a place to call home.