Emergency Travel Assistance For Newcomers
The Traveler's
Aid Society is a national organization designed to help immigrants
and newcomers to the U.S. Traveler's Aid offers help with relocation,
directions, emergency situations like illness or accidents, immigration
information and multilingual assistance and counseling for crime victims.
Traveler's Aid Society help desks are located in the airport terminals
in most major cities.
Find the
Traveler's Aid branch by city at their website:
http://www.travelersaid.org/wwwdir/tawwwdir.htm
Airport
Info: QuickAid.com has maps and telephone listings of ground transportation,
emergency services and traveler's information for all major U.S. airports:
http://www.quickaid.com/airports/
Miami:
International Airport website (includes terminal map, online flight
info including arrival and departure times):
http://www.miami-mia.com/
New
York City: Victims Services Travelers Aid at JFK International Airport
(multilingual service which offers emergency travel assistance, referrals
to consulates and immigration assistance, and to food, shelter and medical
treatment):
http://www.victimservices.org/travhlp.html
Multilingual
Assistance for Immigrant Crime Victims
(Queens, N.Y.):
718-899-1233
New
York Association for New Americans
(http://www.nyana.org)
New
York-based resettlement agency offering educational and employment services
and acculturation, plus intensive English language instruction. Also
help for the U.S. citizenship test.