Lauren Anselowitz
Ms. Anselowitz practices exclusively in the area of immigration law with a focus on detention and removal cases. Her most noted accomplishment is successfully arguing two deferral of removal cases under the Convention Against Torture before the U.S. Immigration Court. The Executive Office for Immigration Review reported that less than one percent of these cases are granted each year.
In addition to reuniting families whose loved ones have been detained and are facing imminent removal, Ms. Anselowitz has successfully resolved many complex family and employment-based green card applications, issues of citizenship and a number of different nonimmigrant visa petitions. Her experience includes securing status through H-1B, L, E and R visas. Additionally, Ms. Anselowitz has worked extensively on victim-based applications under the Violence Against Women Act.
Ms. Anselowitz was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2009, 2010 and 2012. She has presented on the collateral immigration consequences of crimes to the Middlesex County Bar Association and lectured on family immigration law at Montclair State University. She is admitted to the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
A graduate of North Carolina State University, and Seton Hall Law School, Ms. Anselowitz has also earned her Master of Arts Degree from the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations. In connection with her legal studies, Ms. Anselowitz attended the American University in Cairo, Egypt and served in the field of international criminal law at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Ms. Anselowitz also lived in Pretoria, South Africa and has spent time in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Senegal, the Gambia, and Ethiopia. As a result of her trip to Ethiopia in the summer of 2010, she now devotes her free time to forming a charity for empowerment through education in the highlands of Ethiopia.