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Thanksgiving Dinner
2006 Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program (DV 2006)
American Slang
Thanksgiving is a big holiday in the United States. It is a time when family and friends get together for a dinner and good company. So you don’t eat turkey and think you should not come, WRONG. There is much more to eat than turkey. We have vegetables, potatoes, sometimes rice or soup, bread and of course desert. So if you are a vegetarian or just don’t like turkey please sign up to come and enjoy the other food and the company.
The Northeastern New York Chapter of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers is organizing the Third Annual Thanksgiving dinner for the Rensselaer International Students and their families.
Date: Saturday, November 27, 2004
Time: Arrive 12:00-noon
Serving food 12:15-1:30pm
Place: McNeil Room of the Rensselaer Union
If you want to attend please sign up. This is so we can have enough food. And please remember when you sign up to attend it is important that you show up. To sign up call 276-6561 and give your name if you have family members attending how many.
We would like to invite you to join us for an American Thanksgiving dinner. If you don’t have any plans on that day. You should come join us for a good mean and a chance to socialize with the Peace Corp Volunteers. Meeting with the international students allows them to test their language abilities after as long as 40 years since their volunteer service.
Some information about the Peace Corps:
The Northeastern New York Chapter of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers is reflective of the over 165,000 volunteers nationally that currently serve 74 nations (135 since 1961). Peace Corps volunteers live with local populations and not in American compounds; they work with host nationals on projects of every sort for periods generally of two years length. From this event, the Peace Corps hopes to have a chance to enjoy fond memories and renewed contacts with cultures and people beyond their own borders.
The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203© of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 to provide for a new class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants” (DV immigrants).
• The Act makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to
persons who meet the simple, but strict eligibility requirements from countries
with low rates of immigration to the United States.
• Applicants for Diversity Visas are chosen by a computer-generated random
lottery drawing.
• The visas are distributed among six geographic regions with a greater
number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with no
visa going to citizens of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the
U.S. in the past years. Within each region, no one country may receive more
than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.
• For DV-2006, natives of the following countries are NOT ELIGIBLE
to apply because they sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S.
in the previous five years:
o Canada, China (mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador,
Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, United
Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.
o
o Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.
• Entries must be submitted electronically between FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004 and FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2005. Applicants may access the electronically Diversity Visa Entry form at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov during the registration period. Paper entries will not be accepted. Applicants are strongly encouraged to not wait until the last week of the registration period to enter. Heavy demands may result in delays. No entries will be accepted after noon on January 7, 2055.
For more information, please visit: http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_types_diversity3.html
Black Friday. That is what the day after Thanksgiving is called. Friday, November 26. 2004. It is a day that many people start their Christmas shopping. Stores have big sales and open very early in the day and stay open very late at night. Stores are packed with shoppers; it is very hard to find parking places at the mall. If you enjoy crowds then I would say go, if you are like me and hate crowds don’t go near a store.