Our office sits west of Troy in Farmington Hills — close enough for in-person meetings when a business or family matter calls for it — and we represent clients throughout Michigan.
Serving Troy from our Farmington Hills office
Troy's concentration of employers means many cases here involve work-based categories — professional and specialty-occupation visas, employment green cards, and the transition from temporary status to permanent residence. We help both the company and the employee understand timing and options, from the first petition through the wait for a green card.
International professionals usually have family considerations too. We coordinate spouse and dependent status alongside the primary case so the whole household stays in lawful status, and we handle the naturalization step when the time comes.
Work-based cases in Troy run on employer calendars as much as government ones. Specialty-occupation petitions have an annual cap and a registration window that opens early in the year, transfers between employers have their own timing, and the permanent residence process adds a labor certification stage before any green card petition can be filed. Missing a window usually means waiting a full year, so we start these conversations well before the deadline rather than at it.
The other half of the work is everything around the employee. Spouses and children hold dependent status that follows the principal's, work authorization for a spouse is available in some categories and not others, and children can age out of eligibility while a family waits. Engineers and managers along the Big Beaver corridor frequently arrive with a straightforward petition question and a more consequential family timing question underneath it.
Troy is one part of a practice we run across the state. Our statewide immigration practice page explains how representation works when a client lives further out, and which steps can be handled by phone, email, and video rather than a drive to Farmington Hills.
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Common Questions
Yes. Employment-based cases usually involve both the company and the worker, and we guide each side through the petition, timing, and compliance.
Yes. We handle dependent and spouse status alongside the primary work case so your family's status stays aligned with yours.
It depends on your visa category. Some dependent statuses allow employment authorization, sometimes only once the principal has reached a particular stage of the green card process, and others do not permit it at all. The category determines the answer.
Many work-based statuses are tied to a specific employer, so a new job generally requires a new or amended petition. Whether you can begin work before it is approved depends on the category and on the timing of the filing.
Aging out is a real risk in family and employment queues, though the Child Status Protection Act preserves eligibility in some circumstances. It is one of the strongest reasons to review timing early rather than after a birthday.