Join us in collecting money and canned food this weekend to help victims of the April 16 earthquake in Ecuador. We’ll donate the proceeds to the Ecuadorean consulate and airlines have offered to ship the goods free of charge.
Feel free to come and make your donations on Saturday, April 30, between 10 am and 1 pm at our Queens office, 59-26 Woodside Avenue, Woodside NY 11377
This event coincides with our free shredding event (see more information below.)
Emerald Isle Immigration Center and The NYC Mayor’s Office, Community Affairs Unit invites the community to bring personal and confidential documents to our Free Shredding Event.
Saturday, April 30th 10 AM – 1 PM
Emerald Isle Immigration Center 5926 Woodside Avenue, Woodside NY 11377
For more information please contact coordinator@eiic.org more
The 108th Precinct Community Affairs/Crime Prevention Unit Police Officers will provide:
Operation ID is offered free of charge by the New York City Police Department and involves registering the serial number of valuable portable electronics along with owner’s name and contact information.
Official ceremony marking the Centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising will take place this Sunday April 24th at Wagner Park in Battery Park City.
Ceremony will be followed by a program of artistic and cultural events.
All are welcome to attend.
The Emerald Isle Immigration Center’s Meals On Wheels program provides daily meals to local Seniors who are unable to prepare meals for themselves due to an age related disability or illness. The meals are delivered daily by a group of dedicated volunteers. We are always seeking new volunteers so please contact us at 718-324-3039 ext. 102 if you are interested or if you know of someone who would like to become a meal recipient. This program is generously funded by NYS Senator Jeff Klein and the New York State Department Of Aging (NYS DOA).
WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the congressionally mandated H-1B cap for fiscal year (FY) 2017. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the U.S. advanced degree exemption.
USCIS will use a computer-generated process, also known as the lottery, to randomly select the petitions needed to meet the caps of 65,000 visas for the general category and 20,000 for the advanced degree exemption.
USCIS will first randomly select petitions for the advanced degree exemption. All unselected advanced degree petitions will become part of the random selection process for the 65,000 general cap. The agency will reject and return filing fees for all unselected cap-subject petitions that are not duplicate filings.
Before running the lottery, USCIS will complete initial intake for all filings received during the filing period, which ended April 7. Due to the high number of petitions, USCIS is not yet able to announce the date it will conduct the random selection process.
USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions that are otherwise exempt from the cap. Petitions filed on behalf of current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap, and who still retain their cap number, will also not be counted toward the congressionally mandated FY 2017 H-1B cap. USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions filed to:
U.S. businesses use the H-1B program to employ foreign workers in occupations that require highly specialized knowledge in fields such as science, engineering and computer programming.
We encourage H-1B applicants to subscribe to the H-1B Cap Season email updates located on the H-1B Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Cap Season Web page.
For more information on USCIS and its programs, please visit uscis.gov or follow us on Facebook (/uscis), Twitter (@uscis), YouTube (/uscis) and the USCIS blog The Beacon.
