This webinar will provide an overview of how to prepare an asylum application for LGBT and HIV+ applicants and new developments in the law. We will cover some of the particular challenges faced by LGBT and HIV+ asylum-seekers and will provide practice pointers and resources for addressing these challenges.

Deadline to register: 12/8/09
1.5 MCLE

Presenters:
Dan Torres, ILRC Staff Attorney
Dan's work includes combating immigration provider fraud, conducting know your rights presentations, providing technical assistance to pro bono attorneys who are handling cases in the federal courts of appeals, and serving as the ILRC's Attorney of the Day. He is also the co-author of ILRC's publication, Motions to Suppress. Before joining the ILRC, Dan represented clients as a staff attorney at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation in Sacramento, worked as a clinical instructor at the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, and served as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Dusty Araujo, Asylum Documentation Project Coordinator, National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)
As the Asylum Documentation Project Coordinator at NIJC, Dusty conducts country condition research on human rights violations for sexual minorities and those with HIV/AIDS. He provides country packets of information to LGBT/HIV immigrants in the process of seeking asylum including LGBT/HIV asylum seekers in detention who are in deportation proceedings. In collaboration with Asylumlaw.org, he manages a segment of this site posting his research on LGBT/HIV conditions for 144 countries. Since 1997, he has been working on Asylum/Immigration issues for the LGBT/HIV+ immigrant community worldwide.

Linda Tam, Staff Attorney, Health Practice, East Bay Community Law Center
Linda joined the East Bay Community Law Center in 2003 to develop an immigration practice for people living with HIV/AIDS. The practice has expanded to include work with the Medical Legal Partnership (MLP), a collaboration with the Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland. Linda counsels clients on immigration options, immigrant benefit eligibility, and assists clients with citizenship, permanent residency, HIV waivers, U visas, VAWA, and political asylum. She is a contributor on immigration law to AIDS and The Law, the leading treatise on HIV legal issues, and the AIDS Law Manual: A Manual on Providing Legal Services to People with HIV/AIDS.


NOTE: Registration is limited to one registrant per connection. We only provide MCLE credit to those who have registered and paid the full fee. All participants must register by the deadline. In order to receive the special webinar dial-in number and weblink, please make sure to provide us with your most commonly used e-mail address. The ILRC will e-mail registrant with the special webinar dial-in number, weblink, and necessary materials a few days before the webinar date..