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EIIC Dinner Dance – October 25, 2013
The Emerald Isle Immigration Center (EIIC) is delighted to announce that our Annual Dinner will be held on Friday, October 25th 2013 at the Astoria World Manor, 25-22 Astoria Boulevard, Astoria, New York at 7:00 p.m.
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The Center was founded by members of the Irish Immigration Reform Movement (IIRM) in 1988 and through the years has served the needs of tens of thousands of Irish and many other New York immigrants. On a daily basis, the center and its staff provide assistance on all aspects of immigration, social services, mental health, senior services and programs, employment and education. We are immensely proud of our services and the staff who deliver them, especially as of July 2013 when we entered our 25th year of service to the community.
We are inviting you to join us once again as we honor three individuals who typify the spirit of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center and acknowledge their outstanding contributions to the Irish Community.
Honorable Charles E. Schumer, United States Senator
Dr. Miriam Nyhan, Historian, Glucksman Ireland House NYU
Rory McCreesh, President Duce Construction
This year the center has also chosen John DeCourcey as the recipient of the Frank Carvill Award. This award was established in Frank’s memory as he was a founding member of the IIRM and served as Treasurer for the EIIC. Frank was serving with the Nation Guard and was killed in action when his unit came under attack in Sadr City, Iraq on June 4th, 2004. The award is intended for those who represent Frank’s spirit of volunteerism to the organization.
Tickets for the event are $90.00 per person, with the Anniversary Package consisting of a table of 10 and a Platinum page in our dinner journal for $1,500.00 and the Emerald Package consisting of a table of 10 and an Emerald page in our dinner journal for $1,200.00. All funds raised will support the ongoing work and programs of services at both EIIC office locations.
We look forward to hearing from you with your ticket and/or journal advertisement reservations or if you have questions, please call Sandra Boyle, Deputy Director (718) 478-5502 ext. 211 or Lisa McGovern, Bronx Office Manager (718) 324-3039 ext. 102. Alternatively you can email
eiicdinnerdance@gmail.com
Application Period for Diversity Visa Lottery (DV-2015) Begins on October 1, 2013
Online registration for the DV-2015 Program will begin on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), and conclude on Saturday, November 2, 2013 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4). Applications must be submitted electronically at www.dvlottery.state.gov.
After the entry period opens October 1st, we recommend early entry, and we strongly encourage applicants not to wait until the last week of the registration period to enter. There is no fee to submit an application. Contact our offices if you need assistance applying or have questions about the program.
See the Diversity Visa Program Instructions official webpage for the DV-2015 instructions and further information.
Diversity Visa Lottery (DV-2014) Results Announced
Since May 1, 2013, all DV-2014 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, 2014. Applicants should keep their confirmation numbers until September 2014 as more winners may be selected later. All “winners” of the DV-2014 lottery must be processed for a green card before September 30, 2014.
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The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2014 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 140,660 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-2014 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2014 (October 1, 2013 until September 30, 2014).
Applicants registered for the DV-2014 program were selected at random from 9,374,191 qualified entries (14,633,767 with derivatives) received during the
30-day application period that ran from noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, October 2, 2012, until noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, November 3, 2012. 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 2014 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2014 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2014 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2014 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2014.
Dates for the DV-2015 program registration period will be widely publicized in the coming months. Those interested in entering the DV-2015 program should check the Department of State’s Visa web page for more details in September.
* 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-2014 program:
AFRICA
| ALGERIA 2,583 | GABON 72 | SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0 |
| ANGOLA 84 | GAMBIA, THE 67 | SENEGAL 824 |
| BENIN 639 | GHANA 3,945 | SEYCHELLES 5 |
| BOTSWANA 19 | GUINEA 1,759 | SIERRA LEONE 2,977 |
| BURKINA FASO 267 | GUINEA-BISSAU 14 | SOMALIA 273 |
| BURUNDI 138 | KENYA 4,245 | SOUTH AFRICA 1,038 |
| CAMEROON 4,268 | LESOTHO 6 | SOUTH SUDAN 18 |
| CAPE VERDE 33 | LIBERIA 3,809 | SUDAN 2,281 |
| CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 45 | LIBYA 156 | SWAZILAND 5 |
| CHAD 49 | MADAGASCAR 50 | TANZANIA 209 |
| COMOROS 5 | MALAWI 52 | TOGO 1,481 |
| CONGO 236 | MALI 176 | TUNISIA 159 |
| CONGO,DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 6,025 | MAURITANIA 21 | UGANDA 620 |
| COTE D’IVOIRE 1,399 | MAURITIUS 68 | ZAMBIA 117 |
| DJIBOUTI 75 | MOROCCO 2,428 | ZIMBABWE 196 |
| EGYPT 5,757 | MOZAMBIQUE 21 | |
| EQUATORIAL GUINEA 4 | NAMIBIA 12 | |
| ERITREA 837 | NIGER 137 | |
| ETHIOPIA 5,718 | NIGERIA 6,043 | |
| RWANDA 477 |
ASIA
| AFGHANISTAN 447 | ISRAEL 330 | OMAN 12 |
| BAHRAIN 27 | JAPAN 861 | QATAR 43 |
| BHUTAN 21 | JORDAN 581 | SAUDI ARABIA 467 |
| BRUNEI 3 | NORTH KOREA 3 | SINGAPORE 119 |
| BURMA 696 | KUWAIT 275 | SRI LANKA 1,616 |
| CAMBODIA 1,892 | LAOS 9 | SYRIA 493 |
| HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 159 | LEBANON 396 | TAIWAN 723 |
| INDONESIA 379 | MALAYSIA 167 | THAILAND 131 |
| IRAN 6,027 | MALDIVES 4 | TIMOR-LESTE 0 |
| IRAQ 384 | MONGOLIA 224 | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 167 |
| NEPAL 6,082 | YEMEN 532 |
EUROPE
| ALBANIA 3,289 | GEORGIA 806 | NORTHERN IRELAND 37 |
| ANDORRA 2 | GERMANY 1,696 | NORWAY 63 |
| ARMENIA 2,221 | GREECE 230 | POLAND 1,552 |
| AUSTRIA 150 | HUNGARY 363 | PORTUGAL 124 |
| AZERBAIJAN 494 | ICELAND 49 | Macau 12 |
| BELARUS 1,873 | IRELAND 175 | ROMANIA 1,245 |
| BELGIUM 120 | ITALY 787 | RUSSIA 4,544 |
| BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 153 | KAZAKHSTAN 784 | SAN MARINO 1 |
| BULGARIA 1,957 | KOSOVO 257 | SERBIA 582 |
| CROATIA 125 | KYRGYZSTAN 537 | SLOVAKIA 115 |
| CYPRUS 24 | LATVIA 147 | SLOVENIA 14 |
| CZECH REPUBLIC 133 | LIECHTENSTEIN 1 | SPAIN 485 |
| DENMARK 103 | LITHUANIA 385 | Western Sahara 1 |
| Greenland 1 | LUXEMBOURG 13 | SWEDEN 225 |
| ESTONIA 75 | MACEDONIA 421 | SWITZERLAND 224 |
| FINLAND 111 | MALTA 6 | TAJIKISTAN 531 |
| FRANCE 958 | MOLDOVA 2,903 | TURKEY 3,972 |
| French Polynesia 8 | MONACO 2 | TURKMENISTAN 216 |
| French Southern and | MONTENEGRO 20 | UKRAINE 6,009 |
| Antarctic Territories 4 | NETHERLANDS 225 | UZBEKISTAN 5,014 |
| New Caledonia 1 | Aruba 6 | VATICAN CITY 0 |
| Saint Martin 2 | Curacao 4 | |
| Sint Maarten 2 |
NORTH AMERICA
| BAHAMAS, THE 23 |
OCEANIA
| AUSTRALIA 2,104 | NAURU 12 | SOLOMON ISLANDS 3 |
| Cocos Islands 1 | NEW ZEALAND 674 | TONGA 105 |
| Norfolk Island 2 | Cook Islands 4 | TUVALU 1 |
| FIJI 1,174 | Niue 25 | VANUATU 17 |
| KIRIBATI 6 | Tokelau 3 | |
| MARSHALL ISLANDS 2 | PALAU 0 | |
| MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 5 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA 34 | |
| SAMOA 43 |
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
| ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 11 | GRENADA 31 | SAINT LUCIA 42 |
| ARGENTINA 218 | GUATEMALA 225 | SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 13 |
| BARBADOS 34 | GUYANA 50 | SURINAME 27 |
| BELIZE 18 | HONDURAS 121 | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 246 |
| BOLIVIA 145 | NICARAGUA 78 | URUGUAY 41 |
| CHILE 50 | PANAMA 22 | VENEZUELA 1,905 |
| COSTA RICA 101 | PARAGUAY 27 | |
| CUBA 1,178 | SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 15 | |
| DOMINICA 22 |
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2014: 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, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.
***EIIC Press release on Walter McCaffrey 7-11-13***
The Emerald Isle Immigration Center mourns the death of former NYC Council Member Walter McCaffrey, who died on Wednesday July 10th. Walter was a steadfast and loyal friend of Emerald Isle from its beginnings in 1988, and he was a staunch supporter of immigration reform and of the Irish Immigration Reform Movement.
Through Walter’s help, and that of other key legislators, the Irish Immigration Reform Movement was able to secure important change in 1990 that helped legalize thousands of undocumented Irish Immigrants.
For many years, Emerald Isle’s Woodside, Queens conference room has long been named in honor of Walter McCaffrey, our “Godfather”.
Funeral Arrangement’s:
McCaffrey’s wake will be on Sunday at
Edward D. Lynch Funeral Home in Sunnyside
from 2-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.
Monday there will be a mass at St. Sebastian Roman Catholic Church in Woodside at 11 a.m.
The funeral will follow.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens-councilman-walter-mccaffrey-dead-64-article-1.1395555