Chinanews.com, June 17th. According to a report by the US "Qiao Bao", the Queens District Office of New York, the United States officially opened its first Immigrant Welcome Center to more than 1 million immigrants in Queens, providing multilingual immigration services including Chinese. , Queens District Mayor Donovan Richards, Congressman Meng Zhaowen, and City Councillor Gu Yaming recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Kew Gardens, Queens.
Richards said that Queens is known as the "World's Borough". Every day, immigrants from all over the world choose Queens to settle down, work and live in Queens, and send their children to school. This is a prosperous Queens area. the part that can not be lost.
There are 3 million immigrants in New York City, and more than one-third of immigrants live in Queens. Nearly 50% of the 2.4 million people in Queens were born abroad.
The first immigration service center opened this time can provide necessary and critical services for immigrant families, such as housing application, food, citizenship application and other services. The two existing staff here can speak English, Chinese, and Spanish.
Meng Zhaowen from immigrant families said that the newly opened immigrant service center in Queens needs to increase investment in services such as legal aid, community organization promotion, and city services.
The center is a place to answer questions and provide help for immigrants.
(Zhang Jing)