Without citizenship, you can't do anything. Although I was given asylum, I just don't feel at home here because I cannot do anything (for example, pay in instalments for the things I buy). If I had citizenship, I could buy a flat, or a house, and earn a living. I'm a zero. If I can't buy a small thing (a fridge), how could I want to buy something bigger (a car). It's not only that you can't do lots of things if you don't have citizenship. It also makes you lose all your ideas (if you can't buy equipment to do business because you can't pay by instalments, you soon go short of ideas for what you could do; it's exhausting). I do not have Iraqi citizenship and do not want it (I left Iraq, I don't want its citizenship). Citizenship means that you feel at home somewhere because you can "do something" - go shopping, do business, travel and work wherever you want (I'm a car mechanic, but nobody will give me a job here because my qualification isn’t recognized here, and Czechs will not believe an Iraqi if one doesn't have any connections). Those who have connections have a better chance (to get a job). Back in Iraq, citizenship wasn't important to me since there were no such obstacles. It depends on each individual what they do if they have citizenship (whether they will work or not). Some people in the camp (refugee camp – interviewer's note) do nothing but still get something to eat, so their lives are easier than when they were at home because at home they were poor. Waiting for asylum, you lose a lot of money. In Iraq, I was doing well, here I lost a lot, but I'm still fighting. It's here where I feel at home, I'm used to this place. I don't want to go back to Iraq, or to my family in America. If I went there before I got Czech citizenship, I could never return. In Iraq, people were forbidden to freely express themselves or talk. You could be prosecuted for that. Here you don't have to be afraid so much, the government doesn't listen to you anyway (it depends on what you do: when I started to do business in the car trade with Iraq and the government found out that it's profitable, then they started to deal with me, to notice me). Until the political situation in Iraq changes, I don't want to be a citizen of the country, although it was once my home. I want to stay here, have a job, do business, not just work for someone. If you live in asylum, you don't have any proper documents. I want Czech citizenship and hope to get it.