Things are NOT looking so good for Real Housewives of New Jersey star Joe Giudice since he is in deportation proceedings while he remains in federal prison on a 41-month sentence.

Continue on to get all the details on Teresa Giudice’s husband Joe Giudice…

CelebNReality247.com has learned that a spokesperson for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that Real Housewives of New Jersey star Joe Giudice is in removal proceedings from the United States.

According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer to have Joe Giudice removed from the U.S. and sent back to Italy.

Giudice, 46, is a little over two years into a lengthy prison sentence handed down in 2014 over charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud and failure to file tax return.

The Real Housewives husband, is scheduled to be released in March 2019 but could see himself booted from the country before his sentence is complete.

The move came because Giudice requested placement in a residential drug and alcohol abuse program, something Fort Dix denied him because an ICE detainer had been put in place. Wife Teresa has floated the possibility of her husband’s deportation for years and said on an episode of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” that she was open to following him back to Italy.

Teresa said at the time:

I mean, Italy’s a beautiful place to live. I wouldn’t mind, you know, I’m just saying. Listen, whatever God has planned for me, that’s what’s going to happen. I will embrace it the best I can.

Giudice, who shares four young daughters with his wife, was born in Italy and moved to the United States with his family as a child. Though he is a permanent resident, he never became a citizen, and now it’s bitting him in the behind.

We will keep you posted on the development of this…