The Nationalities Service Center Reception

Posted by on September 12, 2003

The Nationalities Service Center will be giving a reception the evening of September 16th to welcome to Philadelphia Lavinia Limon of Washington, DC. Limon has more than 25 years of experience working on behalf of immigrants and refugees.

For further information contact:
Jeanne M. McGuire, Executive Director
Office: 215-893-8400 ext. 108; Cell 856-397-2084

Ms. Limon, Executive Director of Immigration and Refugee Services of America (IRSA) and the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR). During the Clinton Administration, Ms. Limon served as the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and Human Services designing and implementing programs to assist newly arriving refugees in achieving economic and social self-sufficiency. Simultaneously, she served as the Director of the Office of Family Assistance for four years helping to devise policies and strategies for implementing national welfare reform. Before joining IRSA and USCR, Ms. Limon worked as the Director of the Center for the New American Community, a project of the National Immigration Forum. Her work with refugees began in 1975 when the first refugees from Southeast Asia were sent to Camp Pendleton, California. She also worked in various capacities in overseas refugee camps located in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Costa Rica and Saudi Arabia. In addition, as the Executive
Director of the International Institute of Los Angeles for six years, Ms.Limon gained experience serving immigrant communities in such diverse programs as childcare, services to seniors, youth programs, and legal immigration services.

Limon has gained extensive knowledge of the domestic refugee resettlement process and will speak at the reception on current issues surrounding refugees and the refugee admittance process into the United States Nationalities Service Center, a non-sectarian non-profit, has been a provider of assistance to immigrants and refugees in the Philadelphia area since 1921. NSC provides resettlement assistance to refugees that move to the area, English and literacy classes to limited English speakers, employment placement for immigrants, legal services, senior services and translation services.

Nationalities Service Center
1300 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5812
Phone: (215) 893-8400