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U.S. Department of State Experiencing Technical Problems with U.S. Passport and Visa Issuance

 

Important Notice: The Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs is currently experiencing technical problems with our passport and visa system. We are operational, but currently issuing documents at a reduced capacity. This issue is worldwide and is not specific to any particular country, citizenship document, or visa category. We apologize to applicants who are experiencing delays or are unable to obtain a passport, Report of Birth Abroad, or visa at this time. We are working urgently to correct the problem and expect our system to be fully operational again soon. Routine passport services are not affected at this time. We will be posting updates to Travel.State.Gov as more information becomes available.

In Memory of John “Jack” Thomas Ahern

In Memory of John “Jack” Thomas Ahern
June 19th, 2014

John Thomas Ahern

Read the New York Times obituary here and sign the guestbook here.

In lieu of flowers, donations requested to the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, 59-26 Woodside Ave., Woodside, NY, 11377, (718) 478-5502 or via the center’s website via Paypal www.eiic.org

The Emerald Isle Immigration Center (EIIC) Executive Committee, board and staff mourn the death of their longtime board member and dear friend John “Jack “ Ahern. Jack was an exceptional Irish American and supported our community and the EIIC at every opportunity.

John “Jack” Thomas Ahern died in his home in Old Westbury on June 17, 2014, surrounded by his family. Jack was born in Brooklyn to Jack and Margaret (Henry) Ahern on November 3, 1953. He graduated from Nazareth High School and attended Brooklyn College. In 1983 Jack married his wife Susan, and was the proud father of Corey, Taryn, and Michael.

In 1974, Jack began his service in the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 30 as an apprentice and rose through the ranks of the mechanical and engineering workers’ union. He was elected Business Manager and Financial Secretary of IUOE Local 30 in 1999 and remained in those positions until his death. He was a labor leader for over 35 years and represented over 4,600 members in both the private and public sector. Jack’s dedication to the labor movement ran deep and he was honored to advocate for the rights of working people everywhere.

Jack also served as Chairman of the Trustees to the International Union of Operating Engineers and Trustee of the IUOE Northeastern Conference. In addition, Jack served as Vice-Chairperson of the NYC Municipal Labor Committee, Executive Board member of the NY Building Congress, and a member of the Board of Trustees for Molloy College.

Jack was very active in the Irish-American community and was exceptionally proud of his heritage. He traced his roots to County Cork and County Longford, and was a proud third generation member of the County Cork Association. Jack was honored to serve as the 253rd Grand Marshal of the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade earlier this year. He was also the Grand Marshal of the Rockaway St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 2000 and 2013. He received numerous awards and acknowledgements, including Irishman of the Year at the 2013 Great Irish Fair in Coney Island and 2013 Labor Leader of the Year by the Knights of St. Patrick.

Jack will be forever loved and perpetually missed by his wife, Susan, and his children, Corey (Jennifer), Taryn, and Michael. Jack is survived by his mother, Margaret Ahern, his brother, Liam Ahern (Nuala), sisters, Christine Rizzo (Frank), and Karen Turton (Darren), 11 nieces and nephews, 4 grand nieces and nephews, as well as a multitude of extended family, friends, and fellow union members.

Jack will be remembered as a loving family man, a strong labor leader, and a proud Irish-American.

Funeral Arrangements

Wake: Friday 20 June through Sunday 22 June, 2pm to 4pm and 7pm to 9pm
Fairchild Sons Funeral Home 1201 Franklin Avenue Garden City, N.Y. 11503, (516) 746-0585, www.fairchildfuneral.com

Funeral Mass: Monday, 23 June 9:45am, St. Brigid’s Church 75 Post Avenue Westbury, N.Y. 11590, (516) 334-0021 www.saintbrigid.net

Interment: Gate of Heaven Cemetery , Hawthorne, New York

 

 

Transform Your Idea into a Profitable Business

Free Workshop

Saturday, June 28th, 2014

10:00 AM

Emerald Isle Immigration Center

59-26 Woodside Avenue, 2nd Floor, Woodside, NY 11377

If you have always wanted to know how to make money on that great cookie recipe or that idea for a hip new chain of retail stores, let us show you the way. This introductory workshop, New Idea to New Venture, focuses on helping you to develop your business idea, organize your start-up processes and create a strategy to launch your business.

  • Breakfast Served
  • No advanced registration required

New Idea New Venture Flyer 3-page-001

 

J1 Summer Orientation Sessions 2014

Each summer Emerald Isle Immigration Center welcomes J1 students looking for assistance with accommodation, employment and settling in New York over summer. The Emerald Isle Immigration Center will hold daily J1 Orientation Meetings in both our Bronx and Queens offices. Please contact our J1 Coordinator Niamh Walsh at 718-324-3039 ex 109 and schedule a meeting date in advance.

May 27th – 30th J1 Orientation Meetings will commence in the Bronx at 3pm and Queens at 2pm daily

June 2nd – 13thJ1 Orientation Meetings will commence in the Bronx at 3pm and Queens at 2pm daily  

June 2nd   Networking and Orientation Meeting in the Consulate General of Ireland, 345 Park Ave. 17th floor (current Photo ID will be required to enter the building) from 4-6 pm. This event will enable J1 Students to meet with employers who are recruiting for summer positions.

EIIC Queens Office

59-26 Woodside Avenue, 2nd Floor, Woodside, NY 11377

EIIC Bronx Office

4275 Katonah Avenue, Bronx, NY 10470

Emerald Isle Immigration Center J1 Summer Guide 2014

J1 Summer Students Guidelines for Employers

Diversity Visa Lottery (DV-2015) Results Announced

 

Since May 1, 2014, all DV-2015 applicants are required to verify the results of their entry online at www.dvlottery.state.gov. They will not be contacted by mail or e-mail. They must enter their application Confirmation Number from the online application receipt, their Last Name/Family Name, and Year of Birth in order to check the status online. Results will be posted online until September 30, 2015. Applicants should keep their confirmation numbers until September 2015 as more winners may be selected later. All “winners” of the DV-2015 lottery must be processed for a green card before September 30, 2015.

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 DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2015 (DV-2015) RESULTS

The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2015 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 125,514 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-2015 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2015 (October 1, 2014 until September 30, 2015).

Applicants registered for the DV-2015 program were selected at random from 9,388,986 qualified entries (14,397,781 with derivatives) received during the 30-day application period that ran from noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, October 1, 2013, until noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, November 2, 2013.  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 the Bureau of 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 2015 will end.  Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2015 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2015 registration.  Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2015 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2015.

Dates for the DV-2016 program registration period will be widely publicized in the coming months.  Those interested in entering the DV-2016 program should check the Department of State’s Visa web page in the coming months.

*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-2015 program:

AFRICA
ALGERIA  3,076 ETHIOPIA  4,988 NIGER  334
ANGOLA  173 GABON  81 RWANDA  690
BENIN  1,758 GAMBIA, THE  110 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE  0
BOTSWANA  12 GHANA  3,381 SENEGAL  620
BURKINA FASO  390 GUINEA  2,314 SEYCHELLES  9
BURUNDI  188 GUINEA-BISSAU  7 SIERRA LEONE  2,182
CABO VERDE  20 KENYA  3,534 SOMALIA  275
CAMEROON  5,000 LESOTHO  3 SOUTH AFRICA  924
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.  33 LIBERIA  5,000 SOUTH SUDAN  21
CHAD  99 LIBYA  263 SUDAN  3,484
COMOROS  6 MADAGASCAR  62 SWAZILAND  5
CONGO  243 MALAWI  27 TANZANIA  231
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE  4,943 MALI  123 TOGO  1,824
COTE D’IVOIRE  1,487 MAURITANIA  29 TUNISIA  221
DJIBOUTI  77 MAURITIUS  55 UGANDA  642
EGYPT  4,988 MOROCCO  2,844 ZAMBIA  116
EQUATORIAL GUINEA  14 MOZAMBIQUE  11 ZIMBABWE  249
ERITREA  815 NAMIBIA  19  
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN  305 JAPAN  636 QATAR  51
BAHRAIN  12 JORDAN  374 SAUDI ARABIA  517
BHUTAN  45 NORTH KOREA  0 SINGAPORE  47
BRUNEI  0 KUWAIT  241 SRI LANKA  1,303
BURMA  453 LAOS  1 SYRIA  598
CAMBODIA  2,079 LEBANON  408 TAIWAN  498
HONG KONG SPECIAL
ADMIN. REGION  160		 MALAYSIA  129 THAILAND  81
INDONESIA  288 MALDIVES  2 TIMOR-LESTE  0
IRAN  4,992 MONGOLIA  186 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES  195
IRAQ  289 NEPAL  4,991 YEMEN  875
ISRAEL  231 OMAN  15  
EUROPE
ALBANIA  2,946 GREECE  147 NORTHERN IRELAND  41
ANDORRA  2 HUNGARY  329 NORWAY  49
ARMENIA  2,049 ICELAND  42 POLAND  961
AUSTRIA  134 IRELAND  157 PORTUGAL  82
AZERBAIJAN  454 ITALY  779   Macau  29
BELARUS  1,466 KAZAKHSTAN  772 ROMANIA  1,068
BELGIUM  107 KOSOVO  227 RUSSIA  4,103
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA  171 KYRGYZSTAN  403 SAN MARINO  0
BULGARIA  1,418 LATVIA  92 SERBIA  399
CROATIA  87 LIECHTENSTEIN  3 SLOVAKIA  110
CYPRUS  32 LITHUANIA  287 SLOVENIA  11
CZECH REPUBLIC  125 LUXEMBOURG  0 SPAIN  393
DENMARK  65 MACEDONIA  436 SWEDEN  217
ESTONIA  71 MALTA  16 SWITZERLAND  194
FINLAND  88 MOLDOVA  2,809 TAJIKISTAN  528
FRANCE  816 MONACO  1 TURKEY  3,688
  French Polynesia  11 MONTENEGRO  16 TURKMENISTAN  191
  Saint Martin  1 NETHERLANDS  151 UKRAINE  4,679
  St. Pierre & Miquelon  2   Aruba  5 UZBEKISTAN  4,368
GEORGIA  804   Curacao  13 VATICAN CITY  0
GERMANY  1,354   Sint Maarten  1  
NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE  14    
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA  1,798 MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF  6 SAMOA  32
  Christmas Island  1 NAURU  19 SOLOMON ISLANDS  3
  Cocos Islands  1 NEW ZEALAND  589 TONGA  123
  Norfolk Island  12   Cook Islands  14 TUVALU  1
FIJI  857   Niue  3 VANUATU  7
KIRIBATI  6 PALAU  6  
MARSHALL ISLANDS  1 PAPUA NEW GUINEA  20  
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA  6 DOMINICA  5 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS  7
ARGENTINA  109 GRENADA  8 SAINT LUCIA  18
BARBADOS  15 GUATEMALA  86 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES  7
BELIZE  3 GUYANA  53 SURINAME  11
BOLIVIA  69 HONDURAS  165 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO  193
CHILE  37 NICARAGUA  54 URUGUAY  20
COSTA RICA  72 PANAMA  19 VENEZUELA  1,556
CUBA  1,480 PARAGUAY  6  

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2015: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., Macau S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.