It was honor for Parthiv Patel with swearing as attorney just came after Gurbir Grewal

New Jersey: Wednesday welcomed Parthiv Patel to new vocation as lawyer in the New Jersey Bar as officially admitted its first ‘Dreamer’. Murphy and recently positioned Attorney General Gurbir Grewal – who made history himself as the first Sikh American to serve as Attorney General in history of US received first Dreamer in again with history swearing event as attorney Parthiv Patel has given the Garden State’s DACA recipients and immigrant population a much-needed ray of hope in a time of “uncertainty and chaos,” Governor Phil Murphy says.

As per reports with the ACLU-NJ, Patel immigrated to New Jersey from India when he was five-years-old. He received DACA in 2012, granting him authorization to work in the United States. After graduating from law school, Patel passed the bar exams of both New Jersey and Pennsylvania in July 2016. Patel’s application for bar admission stalled when the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners notified him that his immigration status made him ineligible. Patel appealed with help from the ACLU of Pennsylvania and several cooperating attorneys. On Dec. 18, 2017, he was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar.

With his certification as a New Jersey attorney came on Wednesday. Patel truly honored with said “It is truly an honor to be sworn into the bar by the New Jersey Attorney General with the support of Governor Murphy and the New Jersey ACLU, “I hope that other Dreamers will be afforded the same opportunities that I have gotten and that no federal changes will force those of us who work so hard for what we accomplish to leave our communities. I have always dreamed of being a lawyer. After today, that dream is a reality.”

The ACLU of New Jersey supported Patel’s application to the bar. ACLU-NJ Executive Director Amol Sinha called Patel a “son of New Jersey” and said that his story is a perfect representation of the American Dream. “No one should face barriers to serving the greater good because of where they were born,” Sinha said. “While other forces in the country put obstacles in the path of talented, driven young Americans like [Patel], New Jersey shows how much we benefit when we lift up each other’s dreams rather than thwart them. I am honored to witness his admission to the practice of law in our home state and to call him a colleague.”

On Wednesday, Murphy also took the opportunity to announce that New Jersey will be filing a motion to join New York and 15 other states in a lawsuit, New York v. Trump, to combat any federal changes that could negatively impact Dreamers in the Garden State and around the country.