Please join Raju Goyal, Anjali Jaiswal, Rudhir Patel, Kirupa Pushparaj, Bharath Venkat, Sarita Venkat, and other members of SABA-NC's In House Counsel Group, as well as Neel Chatterjee, Manohar Reddy, Vid Prabhakaran, Sasho Rao, and Kriti Rajput as they host a Nepal Earthquake Relief Fundraiser!
A BIG thank you to the following sponsoring organizations and law firms:
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area
Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley,
The Haq Law Firm, and
The Nassiri & Jung Foundation.
SABA is actively seeking co-sponsors for this event. If you or your organization are interested in co-sponsoring this event, please email [email protected]
All money raised will go to relief organizations operating in Nepal.
We are pleased to announce that the first $6000 raised will be matched by the South Asian Bar Association and the Nassiri & Jung Foundation.
Every dollar of your support is meaningful. While we are asking for $25 donations to attend the event, we encourage you to contribute as much money as you are able to contribute. Appetizers and drinks will be provided.
As a humanitarian relief measure, advocacy organizations and legislative offices have asked for designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a status commonly granted to countries impacted by natural disaster. A TPS designation would protect Nepalese immigrants in the U.S. from deportation and grant work authorization to allow them to send remittances to Nepal. Over 100 South Asian and immigration advocacy groups, including the South Asian Bar Association of North America, signed on to a letter asking the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Nepal for TPS. A petition to the White House requesting that President Obama grant TPS also has been circulating and is still in need of signatures to meet the required 100,000 signature threshold. Finally, thirteen members of Congress--led by Reps. Al Green and Mike Honda--have introduced H.R. 2033, which proposes granting TPS for 18-months to Nepalese in the U.S.
