MARTI L. JONES
ATTORNEY
Marti Jones holds a J.D. and a Master’s in Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University. She was admitted to the Utah Bar in 1990 and began practicing immigration law in 1991. She joined the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) in 1992.
Marti represented her first Salvadoran asylum applicant before the immigration court in 1995. From 2001 to 2002, she served as the Chair of AILA’s Utah Chapter. She has practiced immigration law in a variety of settings, including as a solo practitioner, in a small firm setting, and in the non-profit sector. During the 2001 245(i) window, she was responsible for filing over 200 labor certification applications across four states.
From 2000 to 2015, Marti dedicated more than twelve years to roles as Senior Staff Attorney and Executive Director at two small immigration legal service providers: A Welcome Place in Utah and The Immigration Project in Illinois.
In 2013, the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois recognized her leadership of The Immigration Project with their Equal Access to Justice Award. She returned to Utah in 2015 as the Director of Immigration Services for Holy Cross Ministries and started counseling Stowell Crayk in 2018.
Memberships
AILA, 1992-present
EDUCATION
Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, 1990
Brigham Young University, Masters in Organizational Behavior, 1993
Brigham Young University, English Literature, 1984
PRACTICE AREAS
Immigration: family based, employment based, humanitarian (U & T-visas, VAWA self-petitions, asylum), Naturalization & citizenship, TPS, DACA
BAR ADMISSIONS
Utah, 1990