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DV Lottery - Last Day is November 3rd!
The online registration
for DV-2012 DV Lottery ends
at noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT -5), Wednesday, November 3,
2010. All
entries
must be submitted electronically before the deadline.
Applicants should apply immediately to enter this years Visa lottery.
The only place to apply is on the Department of State website
at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov.
The
CIIC
and Crosscare Migrant Project issued a warning to applicants to
beware of websites that are seeking to charge a fee for this free
application.
Read
the Press Release here
See
the Irish Times article here.
For
assistance with the application and the photos see the attached list of
Irish Centers
Immigration Case Backlog Still Growing
The
number
of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts
reached a new all-time high of 261,083 by the end of September 2010,
according to very timely government enforcement data obtained by the
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
The
average
time these pending cases have been waiting in the Immigration
Courts of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is now 456
days, compared with 459 days at the end of June this year. Newly
arriving cases, of course, have just joined the queue, so their wait
times as yet are short, and this can bring down the average.
Full
details
- by state, nationality, Immigration Court and hearing
locations - can be viewed in TRAC's backlog application, now updated
with data through September 27th, 2010.
http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/
CSO Reports highest net outward
migration from Ireland since late 1980's
Emigration
from Ireland is estimated to have remained constant at 65,300 while the
number of immigrants into Ireland
fell sharply, from 57,300 to 30,800 over the same period. These combined
changes have resulted in an increase in net outward migration from
7,800 in April
2009
to 34,500 in April 2010. This is the highest level of net outward
migration
since 1989.
While the level of overall emigration remained constant, emigration
among Irish
nationals increased significantly in the year, from 18,400 in April
2009 to 27,700
this year; over the same period emigration of non-Irish nationals fell
from 46,800
in April 2009 to 37,600 in April 2010. See
the Population and Migration Estimates here.
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Sheila Gleeson
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