For a third year, staff and volunteers from the International Institute of Buffalo (IIB) and Parkside Lutheran Church provided the first Thanksgiving meal for refugees. The congregation members cooked the turkeys while also assisting with food donations. The dinner was prepared Tuesday afternoon at Parkside Lutheran Church in Buffalo. More than 80 newly arrived refugee clients joined for the celebration.…
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We were honored to welcome 50 New Americans from 24 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo this week. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Burma, Burundi, Canada, China, Congo, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Jordan, Mexico, Russia,…
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We were honored to welcome 50 New Americans from 24 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo this week. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Bangladesh, Burma, Burundi, Canada, Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, Iraq, Ireland, Jamaica, Lebanon, Liberia, Pakistan, Portugal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand,…
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We were honored to welcome 37 candidates from 20 while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in Buffalo recently. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, China, Congo (Kinshasa), India, Iraq, Italy, Libya, Mexico, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Syria, United Kingdom, Uruguay,…
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From Left to Right: Volunteer Megan Gerrity, IIB's Steve Bosco, IIB's Dawn Obe Being a good neighbor starts with a Welcome! Recently, community members came to the International Institute of Buffalo campus to paint "Welcome" signs in the languages of the New Americans we are currently resettling. The works of art will now proudly hang in newly-arrived refugee families' homes.…
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We were honored to welcome 27 New Americans from 17 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo this week. The special ceremony took place at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burma, Canada,…
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We were honored to welcome 39 New Americans from 18 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo this week. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Canada, Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Jordan, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Somalia, United Kingdom, and Yemen.…
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We were honored to welcome 46 New Americans from 26 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo recently. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burma, Canada, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria,…
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Karina Krantz, a former refugee from Ukraine resettled by the International Institute of Buffalo nearly twenty years ago, officially opened the doors to her new boutique market in Pendleton. Filled with Love Buffalo Market focuses on offering options for healthier and diverse foods, beverages, and other specialty items. It features a wide selection of Eastern European delicacies, organic foods, and…
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We were honored to welcome 44 New Americans from 22 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo this morning. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Canada, Congo, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Jamaica, Korea, South Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Sri Lanka,…
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