Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Embassy of Jamaica in Washington, D.C. is the primary diplomatic mission of Jamaica to the United States. It is located at 1520 New Hampshire Avenue , NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] The government of Jamaica established its first embassy in the U.S. on August 16, 1962.
The Jamaican passport is issued to citizens of Jamaica for international travel. The passport is a CARICOM passport as Jamaica is a member of the Caribbean Community. Passports are issued through the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), which was established in 2007 as an "Executive Agency" of the Government of Jamaica. [1]
Caribbean immigration to New York City has been prevalent since the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. [1] This immigration wave has seen large numbers of people from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago, among others, come to New York City in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Jamaica. Jamaica has a modest number of diplomatic missions in the world, even within its own peripheral region of the Caribbean, and they are maintained under the umbrella of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Honorary consulates are excluded from this listing.
Visa requirements for Jamaican citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Jamaica.As of 2024, Jamaican citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 89 countries and territories, ranking the Jamaican passport 55th, tied with Guyanese passport and Nauruan passport in terms of travel freedom according to Henley Passport Index., [1]
US Post Office-Jamaica Main is a historic post office building located at the northwest corner of 164th Street and 89th Avenue in Jamaica in Queens County, New York, United States. It serves the 11432 ZIP Code.
Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Building is a historic office building located in the Jamaica section of the New York City borough of Queens.It was designed in 1928 by George W. Conable (1866-1933) and is a ten-story, T-shaped building in the Colonial Revival style.
Jamaican Americans are an ethnic group of Caribbean Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry. The largest proportions of Jamaican Americans live in South Florida and New York City, both of which have been home to large Jamaican communities since the 1950s and the 1960s.