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October 24, 2011
LGBT Immigration Law Panel at UC Davis Law School
October 03, 2011
Cara Jobson to Speak on Current Issues for LGBT Immigrants
August 25, 2011
Wiley & Jobson Interview on BBC
June 15, 2011
LCCR Asylum Brownbag on June 15, 2011
February 17, 2011
Wiley & Jobson client featured in new documentary, Corner Store
LGBT Immigration Law Panel at UC Davis Law School
Posted by: Wiley & Jobson
October 24, 2011
Topic: Wiley & Jobson News & Events
Joye Wiley and Cara Jobson will join Marien Sorensen of Considine, Sorensen and Trujillo on a panel about LGBT immigration issues at UC Davis Law School as part of Lambda Law Students Coming Out Week Celebration. The panel will discuss recent developments for LGBT immigrants, including challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), as well as asylum based on sexual orientation. October 25, 2011 at Noon, Room 1008.
Cara Jobson to Speak on Current Issues for LGBT Immigrants
Posted by: Wiley & Jobson
October 03, 2011
Topic: Wiley & Jobson News & Events
October, 5, 2011
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
San Francisco Bar Association Board Room
Cara Jobson will give a talk on the latest developments for LGBT immigrants, including strategies for same-sex binational couples, challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), determining when (and when not) to file an I-130 petition for a same-sex spouse, how to ask for prosecutorial discretion, and whether a same-sex partner can be a "qualifying relative" under immigration law for the purposes of cancellation of removal and other hardship waivers.
Hosted by the AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP), Asian American Bar Association, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF), California Association of Black Lawyers, Iranian American Bar Association, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, SF Barristers Immigration Law Section, SF La Raza Lawyers Association, and South Asian Bar Association of Northern California.
To RSVP, email trainingsvlsp@sfbar.org
Wiley & Jobson Interview on BBC
Posted by: Wiley & Jobson
August 25, 2011
Topic: Wiley & Jobson News & Events
The BBC recently aired a story on gay marriage and immigration in the United States on its program PRI's The World. Listen to the story, in which Wiley and Jobson attorney Cara Jobson is interviewed, here.
LCCR Asylum Brownbag on June 15, 2011
Posted by: Wiley & Jobson
June 15, 2011
Topic: Gay Marriage and Immigration
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights hosts "LGBT Asylum Seekers and the 9th Circuit Castro Martinez Decision." Cara Jobson (Wiley and Jobson), Keisha Stanford (Covington & Burling), Noemi Calonje (National Center for Lesbian Rights), and Dusty Araujo (National Asylum Partnership on Sexual Minorities) provide analysis and moderate a discussion of the Ninth Circuit's recent Castro-Martinez decision and its impact on LGBT asylum seekers.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Wiley & Jobson client featured in new documentary, Corner Store
Posted by: Wiley & Jobson
February 17, 2011
Topic: Wiley & Jobson News & Events
Cara Jobson appears in Katherine Bruen's new documentary film, Corner Store, the true story of an immigrant father's journey to make a better life for his family. The New York Times calls Corner Store "a moving insight into one man's struggle to reconcile the kinship he feels for his adopted Bay Area home with his Middle Eastern roots." Hear the Interview with the client and director on KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny. For more information, go to www.cornerdocumentary.org
