Earlier this year the federal government created a new visa pathway, called Resolution of Status, for 20,000 people who held or applied for a Temporary Protection Visa (TPV) and Safe Haven Enterprise Visa (SHEV) before February 2023.
About 4,000 of these have been granted since February and the Department of Home Affairs promises to process the remaining 16,500 applications within the next seven months.
Ms Dahal says receiving their Resolution of Status ends 11 years of torture and punishment.
But the real celebration will begin the day her family is reunited.