Immigration Law Lawyers in Detroit
185 verified immigration attorneys in Detroit. Immigration attorneys help with green cards, visas, citizenship, asylum, and deportation defense. Find a verified immigration lawyer for your case. Compare immigration experience, read verified client reviews, and book a free consultation with local Detroit counsel — AttorneyQnA never charges clients to connect with an attorney.
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Timothy P McDonald is a lawyer practicing immigration & naturalization, insurance, fraud and 1 other area of law. Timothy has been licensed for 24 yea...
Jennifer Osorio Pernas is a lawyer practicing child custody, child support, divorce and 9 other areas of law. Jennifer has been licensed for 11 years.
I have practiced in all areas of immigration law from 1994 to 1997, then again from 2006 to the present. From 1997 to 2006, I served as an Assistant A...
Raymond E Willis is a lawyer practicing personal injury, immigration law, family law and 2 other areas of law. Raymond received a B.B.A. degree from D...
John F. Birmingham, Jr. is a lawyer practicing harassment & retaliation, nationality & consular law, security & information management and 23 other ar...
Thomas R. Williams is a lawyer practicing immigration law, labor and employment.
Reginald A Pacis is a lawyer practicing immigration, temporary visas, green cards and 4 other areas of law. Reginald received a B.A. degree from James...
Curtis B Blessing is a lawyer practicing corporate law, international business law, immigration law and 13 other areas of law. Curtis received a A.B. ...
Barry P Waldman is a lawyer practicing personal injury, products liability, construction accidents and 2 other areas of law. Barry received a B.A. deg...
Timothy E O'Neill is a lawyer practicing government tort liability, first and third party defense, premises liability and 7 other areas of law. Timoth...
Francisco J Villarruel is a lawyer practicing criminal law, family law, criminal defense and 5 other areas of law. Francisco received a degree from In...
George B Washington is a lawyer practicing affirmative action, appellate practice, citizenship and 22 other areas of law. George received a A.B. degre...
Norman H Beitner is a lawyer practicing defamation, divestitures, acquisitions and 55 other areas of law. Norman received a A.B. degree from Universit...
Robert P Cares is a lawyer practicing corporate law, criminal law, military and veterans' law and 1 other area of law. Robert received a B.A. degree f...
Charlene M Snow is a lawyer practicing discrimination, domestic relations, probate and 4 other areas of law. Charlene received a B.A. degree from Mich...
Daniel J. LaCombe is a lawyer practicing civil litigation, business law, immigration law and 2 other areas of law.
Fred B Green is a lawyer practicing securities law, banking law, corporate law and 6 other areas of law. Fred received a B.A. degree from University o...
Julie H Hurwitz is a lawyer practicing civil rights, police misconduct, sexual harassment and 3 other areas of law. Julie received a B.S. degree from ...
Clara DeMatteis Mager is a lawyer practicing immigration, temporary visas, green cards and 5 other areas of law. Clara received a B.S. degree from Way...
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Mr. de Reyna is a Shareholder practicing out of Kotz Sangster Wysocki P.C.'s Detroit office. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law...
Nadia Ragheb-Gonzalez is a lawyer practicing appellate practice, automobile, insurance & indemnity law and 10 other areas of law. Nadia received a B.A...
Carol A Friend is a lawyer practicing business immigration, higher education, international law. Carol received a B.G.S. degree from Oakland Universit...
Michael P. Nowlan is a lawyer practicing automotive, commuter green cards, globalaw and 8 other areas of law.
Nora M Hudson is a lawyer practicing real estate, general practice, divorce and 6 other areas of law. Nora received a B.S. degree from Western Michiga...
Eileen R Scheff is a lawyer practicing affirmative action, appellate practice, citizenship and 27 other areas of law. Eileen received a B.G.S. degree ...
James L Feinberg is a lawyer practicing criminal defense, trials and appeals, criminal law and 3 other areas of law. James has been licensed for 58 ye...
William W. Swor is a highly rated and peer reviewed criminal defense expert with 48 years experience in private practice.
Emirene Mendoza is a lawyer practicing immigration law, civil practice, criminal law. Emirene received a B.A. degree from Wayne State University in 19...
Joseph A Niskar is a lawyer practicing appellate practice, criminal defense, federal practice and 5 other areas of law. Joseph received a B.S. degree ...
Batoul Makled is a lawyer practicing immigration law. Batoul received a B.A. degree from University of Michigan - Dearborn in 1998, and has been licen...
Sestina Rose-Marie Real is a lawyer practicing criminal law, human and civil rights, immigration. Sestina has been licensed for 3 years.
Alia A Sareini is a lawyer practicing criminal law, labour and employment, immigration and 2 other areas of law. Alia has been licensed for 3 years.
Leslie Yaritza Vazquez is a lawyer practicing business law, criminal law, immigration law and 1 other area of law. Leslie has been licensed for 4 year...
Alexandra Renee Andre is a lawyer practicing children's law, immigration law. Alexandra has been licensed for 4 years.
Nancy Maarraoui is a lawyer practicing immigration law, family law. Nancy has been licensed for 5 years.
Scott Andrew Troia is a lawyer practicing environmental law, immigration law, marijuana law and 2 other areas of law. Scott has been licensed for 11 y...
Kirsten Margaret Corneliussen is a lawyer practicing immigration & naturalization. Kirsten received a B.A. degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arb...
Sabrina Balgamwalla is a lawyer practicing immigration law. Sabrina has been licensed for 18 years.
Robert S. Anderson is a lawyer practicing automotive, immigration law, labor & employment law and 1 other area of law.
Joyce Pauline Schon is a lawyer practicing animal law, immigration. Joyce has been licensed for 17 years.
Tanya Stoynova Gaylord is a lawyer practicing immigration, commercial, business litigation and 3 other areas of law. Tanya received a M.S. degree from...
Heidi Erica Warren is a lawyer practicing defense and export controls, litigation, immigration law and 2 other areas of law. Heidi received a B.A. deg...
Elissa Noujaim Pinto is a lawyer practicing citizenship, employer compliance, global migration and 5 other areas of law. Elissa received a B.A. degree...
Shanta Driver is a lawyer practicing general practice, immigration law, administrative & regulatory law. Shanta has been licensed for 23 years.
Diana C Jones is a lawyer practicing family law, government, real estate and 1 other area of law. Diana has been licensed for 34 years.
Lawrence D Alcantar is a lawyer practicing animal law, immigration law, marijuana law. Lawrence has been licensed for 44 years.
Jennifer Fahrenholt is a senior associate attorney in the Detroit office. She focuses her practice on immigration and customs law and is licensed in t...
Taylor Lorraine Seals is a lawyer practicing alternative dispute resolution, family law, labor & employment law and 3 other areas of law. Taylor has b...
Lauren Catherine Shinaberry is a lawyer practicing children's law, elder law & disability rights, immigration law. Lauren has been licensed for 4 year...
Nara Julia Gonczigsuren Orantes is a lawyer practicing immigration law. Nara has been licensed for 4 years.
Ronald Josue Blanco is a lawyer practicing alternative dispute resolution, latin american bar activities, immigration. Ronald has been licensed for 4 ...
Ramis Jamal Wadood is a lawyer practicing immigration law. Ramis has been licensed for 4 years.
Cagdas Akinci is a lawyer practicing immigration. Cagdas has been licensed for 7 years.
Sadia Laily Ghazi is a lawyer practicing criminal law, environmental law, family law and 4 other areas of law. Sadia has been licensed for 5 years.
Kevin Battersby Witenoff is a lawyer practicing immigration law, criminal law. Kevin received a B.A. degree from James Madison College at Michigan Sta...
Samantha Kulhanek is a lawyer practicing immigration law. Samantha has been licensed for 5 years.
Meredith Luneack is a lawyer practicing immigration law, criminal law. Meredith has been licensed for 5 years.
Carlos Valdovinos, Jr is a lawyer practicing immigration law. Carlos has been licensed for 5 years.
What is Immigration Law?
Immigration Law is the branch of law that governs the rights, obligations, and disputes that arise within its subject matter. In the United States, immigration law sits at the intersection of statutes enacted by Congress, the regulations issued by federal agencies, the laws passed by all fifty state legislatures, and the body of judge-made decisions known as the common law. Because every state writes its own version of the rules, the way immigration law works in one jurisdiction can look noticeably different from how it works in another, and that is one of the main reasons attorneys in this area focus their practice geographically — to stay fluent in the local statutes, court rules, and judicial preferences that shape outcomes.
At a practical level, Immigration Law attorneys spend their time on three categories of work. The first is advice and prevention: counselling clients on how to structure transactions, draft documents, and conduct business so that legal risk is minimised before a dispute ever begins. The second is transactional execution: producing the contracts, filings, notices, and registrations that the law actually requires to make a decision legally binding. The third is contested representation: defending or pursuing a client's interests when a dispute escalates to negotiation, regulatory enforcement, arbitration, or litigation in court.
The clients who hire Immigration Law lawyers range from individuals navigating a single life event to multinational corporations with complex regulatory exposure. What unifies them is the need for an experienced lawyer who knows the relevant code sections, has appeared in the relevant courts, and can translate the strategic options into language a client can act on. AttorneyQnA currently lists 185 verified immigration law attorneys across the United States, each with a public profile showing their bar admissions, years in practice, and the kinds of matters they have handled — with the deepest concentration of practitioners in California.
When do you need an Immigration Law attorney?
Most people contact an immigration law lawyer for one of two reasons: something is about to happen that they want done correctly the first time, or something has gone wrong and they need it fixed before it gets worse. The earlier you involve counsel, the more options you usually have, and the lower the cost of getting to a resolution tends to be. The scenarios below are the ones we see most often on AttorneyQnA from prospective clients searching for immigration law representation.
Once your signature is on a contract, settlement, lease, or release, your bargaining leverage drops sharply. A short pre-signature review by an immigration law lawyer is the cheapest insurance you can buy.
Cease-and-desist letters, regulatory notices, and demand letters all start clocks. Missing the response window can convert a manageable problem into a default judgment or formal enforcement action.
Statutes of limitations, filing windows, and appeal periods are jurisdictional — courts cannot extend them as a favour. If you can identify a date that matters, you need a lawyer before that date arrives.
The moment opposing counsel appears, the conversation moves out of normal English and into procedural language. Continuing unrepresented usually means losing ground you cannot recover later.
Forming an entity, choosing a venue, structuring a deal, or selecting a remedy each has long-term consequences. A consultation at the planning stage is far cheaper than redoing it after the fact.
Multi-state matters bring conflict-of-laws questions that change which statutes apply and which court has authority. An attorney licensed in the right jurisdiction is not optional.
If any of the situations above describes where you are right now, the next step is a focused consultation. Use the Ask a Lawyer tool for short written questions, or browse the 185 immigration law attorneys listed above to book a paid consultation directly.
How to choose an Immigration Law attorney
The single biggest factor in choosing an immigration law lawyer is fit with your specific matter. A lawyer with twenty years of immigration law experience but no exposure to your particular sub-issue can easily be a worse choice than a five-year associate who has handled the same problem repeatedly. We recommend running every prospective lawyer through the same five-step checklist before signing an engagement letter.
- Bar admission in the correct jurisdiction. Confirm the lawyer is admitted in the state — and where relevant, the federal district — where your matter sits. The lawyer's profile on AttorneyQnA shows every bar admission on file, and the underlying state bar's "lawyer lookup" tool will confirm active standing in under a minute.
- Direct experience with your fact pattern. Ask plainly: "How many matters like mine have you handled in the last three years, and how did they resolve?" An honest answer reveals more than years-in-practice alone.
- A written fee agreement. Whether hourly, flat fee, contingent, or hybrid, the engagement letter should specify what is included, what triggers additional charges, and how disputes are handled. Avoid lawyers who resist writing the terms down.
- Communication cadence. Decide upfront how often you expect updates, who your day-to-day contact will be, and what response time is reasonable. The number-one complaint filed with state bar grievance committees is not malpractice — it is non-communication.
- Conflict check + reputation pulse. Make sure the lawyer has run a formal conflict check, then spend ten minutes reading independent reviews and any public disciplinary history. The state bar's website is authoritative for the second; the lawyer's AttorneyQnA profile collects the first.
Once you have a shortlist, schedule consultations with two or three. Lawyers vary widely in temperament, and the right strategic match for your case is sometimes the second or third lawyer you meet — not the first.
How much does an Immigration Law lawyer cost?
Legal fees in the United States are not regulated by a uniform schedule, so what you pay an immigration law lawyer depends on the billing model the lawyer offers, the complexity of your matter, and the local market. There are four billing structures used in this practice area; most engagements use one, but hybrid arrangements are increasingly common.
1. Hourly billing
The default model for most non-contingent matters. Rates for immigration law attorneys in the U.S. typically range from $150–$250/hour in smaller markets to $400–$700/hour in major metropolitan areas, with senior partners at large firms commanding $900/hour and above. Hourly billing is fairest when the scope of work is genuinely unpredictable, but it creates an incentive structure that the client has to monitor.
2. Flat fee
Increasingly used for well-defined transactions — incorporations, will drafting, single-issue filings, uncontested matters. A flat fee tells you exactly what the deliverable will cost, and the lawyer absorbs the risk of unexpected complexity. Ask whether the flat fee includes filing fees, third-party costs, and any post-filing follow-up.
3. Contingency
Where it is permitted by the rules of professional conduct — most often in plaintiff-side immigration law work involving monetary recovery — the lawyer is paid a percentage of the proceeds, typically 33% before suit is filed and 40% after. The client pays nothing if there is no recovery. Contingency fees align the lawyer's economics with yours, but the percentage compounds across time, so very strong cases sometimes do better on hourly billing.
4. Retainer / subscription
A monthly fee that buys a defined block of access or hours. This is common for businesses with ongoing immigration law needs — contract review, employee questions, regulatory check-ins. A subscription smooths out spending and gives the lawyer a reason to know your operation in depth.
Whichever model you choose, ask for an itemised written estimate before the engagement begins, and ask explicitly what is not covered. Surprise expenses are the most common source of attorney-client friction.
Frequently asked questions about immigration law
How quickly can an immigration law lawyer review my matter?
Most lawyers can schedule an initial consultation within 1–3 business days. Urgent matters — pending deadlines, time-sensitive notices, court-ordered hearings — should be flagged in your first message; many lawyers reserve emergency consultation slots for that reason. If you need a written answer faster, the Ask a Lawyer tool typically returns answers in under 24 hours.
Do I need a immigration law lawyer in my exact city, or anywhere in my state?
Bar admission is the controlling rule: any attorney licensed in your state can represent you in that state's courts and agencies, regardless of which city they're based in. Practical proximity still matters for in-person meetings, local court familiarity, and access to the local bench and bar. For state-level filings and remote-friendly matters, an attorney elsewhere in the same state often works fine.
Will an initial consultation cost me anything?
Many immigration law attorneys offer a free 15- to 30-minute initial consultation; others charge a flat consultation fee that may be credited against the engagement if you hire them. The lawyer's profile lists the consultation policy. Free does not always mean better — a fee-based consultation is sometimes the sign of a lawyer who treats their time, and yours, seriously.
What documents should I bring to the first meeting?
Bring every contract, notice, letter, filing, or written communication connected to the matter; a written timeline of events with dates; the names and contact details of every other party involved; and any deadlines or hearing dates you are already aware of. Even an incomplete file is more useful than a verbal summary alone.
Can I change lawyers if I am not happy with mine?
Yes. Clients can discharge their lawyer at any time, for any reason, by written notice. Your case file belongs to you and must be transferred to your new counsel. Any unpaid fees through the date of discharge remain owed; any unearned advance must be refunded. If you are mid-litigation, the court typically must approve the substitution, but approval is routine.
How long does an typical immigration law matter take?
It depends almost entirely on whether the matter is transactional or contested. A transactional matter — a contract, a filing, a single-step transaction — can resolve in days to weeks. A contested matter — anything involving disputed facts, court intervention, or regulatory action — typically takes months at minimum, and complex cases can run multiple years. Your lawyer should give you a realistic outside estimate at intake.
Are immigration law lawyer fees tax-deductible?
It depends on the nature of the matter and current tax law. Fees connected to producing or collecting taxable income, managing investment property, or operating a business are often deductible; fees for personal matters generally are not. Because rules change, confirm deductibility with a tax professional for the year in which the fees are paid.
What is the difference between immigration law and the related practice areas?
Immigration Law overlaps with several adjacent areas — see the related-practice-area grid below for direct links. Choosing the right lawyer often means picking the one whose primary focus matches the heart of your problem, even if multiple labels could technically apply. When you are unsure, list your situation in your own words to two lawyers from neighbouring areas and ask which one of them is the better fit; honest lawyers will tell you.
Find immigration law attorneys by state
Each state link below opens the immigration law roster for that jurisdiction, with the local statute of limitations, court-system overview, and verified attorneys.
Immigration Law Law Firms
Main Law Firm
Winter Park
Walton Law Firm
San Marcos
Bruner Law Firm
Fort Walton Beach
J&Y Law Firm
Los Angeles
West Law Firm
Charleston
John T. Floyd Law Firm
Houston
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