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EIIC Fall Computer Sessions

EIIC Fall Computer Sessions (GET PRINTABLE PDF)
As of May 10, 2010

Emerald Isle Immigration Center

Fall Schedule—Computer Classes

  • Session 1

Computers for Beginners

Students will learn about computer software and hardware, the Internet, email and the basic features of Microsoft Word.

Mondays—10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 11

$5.00 donation per class


Intermediate Computer Applications

Using Microsoft Word students will create letters, flyers, tables and memos. In Microsoft Excel students learn basic features by creating a budget, small payroll and other financial documents.  *Typing speed of 35 w.p.m. is required.

Mondays—6:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 11

$15.00 fee per class

  • Session 2

Computers for Beginners Part II

Students will learn information about e-mail such as inserting attachments, setting up an address list, deleting files, etc.  Search engines will be used to navigate the web.  Flyers, tables and cards will be created using the format features in Word.

Mondays—10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

November 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29

$5.00 donation per class


Advanced Computer Applications

—the following topics will be covered:

Microsoft Word—mailmerge

Microsoft Excel—large payroll and sales report

Microsoft Power Point—slide presentation

Microsoft Access—create a database

*Typing speed of 35 w.p.m. is required.

Mondays—6:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

November 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29

$15.00 fee per class

  • Session 3

Typing for Beginners

Students will learn correct keyboarding reaches, master alphabetic keys and use of other keys such as symbols, tab key, caps lock, num lock, enter, delete, backspace, etc.  Students will work at their own pace after a teaching demonstration.  Typing Quick and Easy is the program used.

Mondays—10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

December 6, 13, 20 and January 3, 10

$5.00 donation per session.

The computer lab contains nine (9) computers utilizing Windows XP, Microsoft 2003.

Contact Eileen Morgan, computer instructor, at Emerald Isle for additional information and registration.

DV-2011 Lottery Results

The results of the latest round of the DV lottery were released with the July Visa Bulletin.

All applicants selected will be notified by mail. They can also check online to see if they were picked by going to www.dvlottery.state.gov and entering the applicant’s Confirmation Number from the online application receipt, their Last Name/Family Name, and Year of Birth in order to check the status online. It says that results will be posted online after July 1st but it looks active right now.

Results for Ireland are:

Ireland:                201

N. Ireland:           38

DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2011 (DV-2011) RESULTS

The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2011 diversity lottery.  The diversity lottery was conducted under the terms of section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and makes available *50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.  Approximately 100,600 applicants have been registered and notified and may now make an application for an immigrant visa. Since it is likely that some of the first *50,000 persons registered will not pursue their cases to visa issuance, this larger figure should insure that all DV-2011 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2011 (October 1, 2010 until September 30, 2011).

Applicants registered for the DV-2011 program were selected at random from over 12.1 million qualified entries (16.5 million with derivatives) received during the 60-day application period that ran from noon on October 2, 2009, until noon, November 30, 2009.  The visas have been apportioned among six geographic regions with a maximum of seven percent available to persons born in any single country.  During the visa interview, principal applicants must provide proof of a high school education or its equivalent, or show two years of work experience in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience within the past five years.  Those selected will need to act on their immigrant visa applications quickly.  Applicants should follow the instructions in their notification letter and must fully complete the information requested.

Registrants living legally in the United States who wish to apply for adjustment of their status must contact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for information on the requirements and procedures.  Once the total *50,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2011 will end.  Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2011 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2011 registration.  Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2011 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2011.

Only participants in the DV-2011 program who were selected for further processing have been notified.  Those who have not received notification were not selected.  They may try for the upcoming DV-2012 lottery if they wish.  The dates for the registration period for the DV-2012 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2010.

* The Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) passed by Congress in November 1997 stipulated that up to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually-allocated diversity visas be made available for use under the NACARA program.  The reduction of the limit of available visas to 50,000 began with DV-2000.

The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign-state chargeability of those registered for the DV-2011 program:

AFRICA
ALGERIA 1,753
ANGOLA 55
BENIN 508
BOTSWANA 13
BURKINA FASO 183
BURUNDI 72
CAMEROON 3,674
CAPE VERDE 26
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 18
CHAD 59
COMOROS 7
CONGO 144
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF THE 2,575
COTE D’IVOIRE 759
DJIBOUTI 45
EGYPT 4,251
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 13
ERITREA 851
ETHIOPIA 5,200
GABON 41
GAMBIA, THE 72
GHANA 6,002
GUINEA 701
GUINEA-BISSAU 5
KENYA 4,689
LESOTHO 11
LIBERIA 1,826
LIBYA 114
MADAGASCAR 55
MALAWI 33
MALI 88
MAURITANIA 25
MAURITIUS 61
MOROCCO 2,003
MOZAMBIQUE 2
NAMIBIA 13
NIGER 89
NIGERIA 6,000
RWANDA 204
SAO TOME AND   PRINCIPE 0
SENEGAL 427
SEYCHELLES 4
SIERRA LEONE 3,911
SOMALIA 201
SOUTH AFRICA 963
SUDAN 1,156
SWAZILAND 4
TANZANIA 174
TOGO 1,011
TUNISIA 132
UGANDA 490
WESTERN SAHARA 0
ZAMBIA 128
ZIMBABWE 163
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN 97
BAHRAIN 15
BANGLADESH 5,999
BHUTAN 5
BRUNEI 5
BURMA 367
CAMBODIA 434
HONG KONG SPECIAL
ADMIN. REGION 43
INDONESIA 205
IRAN 2,819
IRAQ 147
ISRAEL 129
JAPAN 298
JORDAN 136
NORTH KOREA 2
KUWAIT 88
LAOS 3
LEBANON 214
MALAYSIA 133
MALDIVES 4
MONGOLIA 279
NEPAL 2,189
OMAN 3
QATAR 9
SAUDI ARABIA 91
SINGAPORE 35
SRI LANKA 515
SYRIA 132
TAIWAN 365
THAILAND 77
TIMOR-LESTE 0
UNITED ARAB   EMIRATES 66
YEMEN 95
EUROPE
ALBANIA 1,469
ANDORRA 0
ARMENIA 1,268
AUSTRIA 147
AZERBAIJAN 355
BELARUS 1,104
BELGIUM 94
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 67
BULGARIA 950
CROATIA 97
CYPRUS 11
CZECH REPUBLIC 111
DENMARK 66
Greenland 1
ESTONIA 72
FINLAND 87
FRANCE 767
French Guiana 0
French Polynesia 13
French Southern &
Antarctic Lands 1
Guadeloupe 0
Martinique 0
New Caledonia 9
Reunion 0
St. Pierre & Miquelon 0
GEORGIA 699
GERMANY 1,895
GREECE 62
HUNGARY 272
ICELAND 48
IRELAND 201
ITALY 450
KAZAKHSTAN 370
KOSOVO 134
KYRGYZSTAN 196
LATVIA 122
LIECHTENSTEIN 1
LITHUANIA 262
LUXEMBOURG 3
MACEDONIA 263
MALTA 1
MOLDOVA 894
MONACO 0
MONTENEGRO 5
NETHERLANDS 139
Aruba 6
Netherlands
Antilles 16
NORTHERN IRELAND 38
NORWAY 66
PORTUGAL 61
Macau Special Admin.
Region 5
ROMANIA 821
RUSSIA 2,464
SAN MARINO 0
SERBIA 327
SLOVAKIA 125
SLOVENIA 14
SPAIN 219
SWEDEN 187
SWITZERLAND 195
TAJIKISTAN 257
TURKEY 2,266
TURKMENISTAN 135
UKRAINE 6,000
UZBEKISTAN 5,091
VATICAN CITY 0
NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE 18
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA 683
Christmas Island 0
Cocos Islands 0
FIJI 476
KIRIBATI 9
MARSHALL ISLANDS 6
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED   STATES OF 0
NAURU 7
NEW ZEALAND 333
Cook Islands 0
Niue 8
PALAU 2
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4
SAMOA 0
SOLOMON ISLANDS 3
TONGA 51
TUVALU 4
VANUATU 1
WESTERN SAMOA 13
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 1
ARGENTINA 134
BARBADOS 12
BELIZE 12
BOLIVIA 90
CHILE 63
COSTA RICA 50
CUBA 406
DOMINICA 29
GRENADA 5
GUYANA 36
HONDURAS 61
NICARAGUA 74
PANAMA 31
PARAGUAY 14
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 6
SAINT LUCIA 27
SAINT VINCENT AND   THE GRENADINES 21
SURINAME 9
TRINIDAD AND   TOBAGO 145
URUGUAY 23
VENEZUELA 752

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2011:  Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R. and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.

Emigration on rise to US and Britain

Emigration on rise to US and Britain

JAMIE SMYTH Social Affairs Correspondent

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0505/1224269734931.html

Wed, May 05, 2010

THE NUMBER of Irish people emigrating to the US increased by 12 per cent last year despite a significant drop in the number of temporary visitors from Ireland.

There was also a slight increase in the number of people from the Republic registering to live and work in Britain in 2009, according to immigration figures compiled by the US and British authorities.

Some 1,637 Irish people were granted legal permanent residence in the US in 2009, up from 1,465 a year earlier. The vast majority (1,066) were granted residence on the basis of having an immediate relative with US citizenship. A further 494 people gained residence on the basis of employment, according to the US department of homeland security.

The rise in emigration to the US mirrors recorded increases in emigration to Canada and Australia in 2009, which experienced 13 per cent and 25 per cent jumps respectively in the number of residence visas issued to Irish nationals.

Figures published by the British department for work and pensions show there was a 7 per cent rise in the number of Irish people registering to work in Britain in the first nine months of 2009.

Some 8,620 people were issued national insurance numbers in Britain up to the end of September, compared to 7,990 in the same period a year earlier. The vast majority of those who registered to work (7,380 people) were between the ages of 18 and 34.

Peter Hammond, director of the London Irish Centre, said there was probably a slight increase in the numbers of Irish people arriving, but it was nothing like the situation in the recession of the 1980s, when there were larger numbers of Irish emigrants.

“People who come here are finding it difficult enough to get work. It’s important to realise the streets of London are not paved with gold,” he said.

Crosscare Migrant Project, which provides advice to people considering emigration, said temporary options of travelling to Australia and Canada continued to be more popular than the US, which has a more cumbersome visa application procedure.

“There continue to be general inquiries about the US but it is simply not as accessible as Canada and Oz for young people who are interested in taking a year or two out doing casual work,” said Joe O’Brien of Crosscare.

Some 18,400 Irish nationals emigrated in the year to April 2009. The Economic and Social Research Institute predicts this trend will continue during 2010 and 2011, with a further 100,000 people leaving the country to travel or find a job.

Despite the increase in emigration the overall number of people travelling to the US for tourism or business fell by 103,893 to 526,017 in 2009. The number of students taking part in exchange visits to the US fell to 11,402 in 2009, down from 13,721 a year earlier. There was also an 11 per cent fall in the number of Irish temporary workers and their families entering the US during 2009.

Usit said the number of J1 visas issued in 2009 was down on the previous year.

“There was probably not one dominant factor but a squeeze on discretionary spending here and the fact that many Irish students may not have wanted to lose their existing part-time jobs by travelling to the US are factors,” said Seona MacRéamoinn of Usit.

Joanne Richardson, chief executive of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland, said the recession was clearly affecting tourism and business travel.

© 2010 The Irish Times

Press Release: J-1 Students Traveling to the United States

PRESS STATEMENT

For Immediate Release

For more information contact:

Name: Sheila Gleeson
Tel:  617-987-0193

J-1 Students Traveling to the United States

The Irish Centers across the United States are hearing from hundreds of students who say that because of the depressed economy in Ireland they are planning to spend their summer working in America. The Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers and Irish Centers in the USA are advising J-1 students who are traveling to America in 2010 that they may find it more difficult to get a job this year. “It is very important that students prepare for their trip prior to arriving in the United States” said Sheila Gleeson the Coalition’s Executive Director. “While the economy has improved here jobs are still difficult to find and accommodation costs continue to be high especially in the cities.

The Emerald Isle Immigration Center and the Aisling Irish Center in New York are just two of the Irish Centers who are making plans to help the hundreds of students that will come to their offices seeking assistance. They are advising every student to have access to at least $2,500 – $3,000 to allow them enough time to get a job and to pay the up front costs of renting an apartment. It is important to realize that securing a job will take time so having enough money is essential. Anyone who has friends and families in the USA are advised to contact them in advance and ask for assistance to find jobs and accommodation. Students should also consider travelling to popular vacation destinations where seasonal work is available.

Irish Centers throughout the United States provide information and support to thousands of J-1 students. They help to orient them to the local areas, to find jobs and accommodation and to resolve any problems that they encounter during their stay here. Siobhan Dennehy, Executive Director of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center says that “we help hundreds of students every year to have a successful experience in the US, this year we have had enquiries from a large number of students who are planning to travel to New York”.

J-1 students who will be close to the Southern border with Mexico should be aware of the continuing violence in border communities in Mexico. While many people safely visit Mexico each year it is important to know that violence in the country has increased significantly. Most of the violence is near the US border, including in Tijuana, and reports of warfare and shoot out’s in the streets among Mexican drug cartels are a regular occurrence. To find out more about the risks of travel to Mexico read the latest warnings/alerts from the US State Department.