McCarthy Law Office

Detroit-based immigrant rights lawyer who serves Michigan-wide. Specializes in immigrant and nonimmigrant visas (including permanent residency, or green cards), naturalization applications including citizenship tests, and all immigrant rights’ cases. Telephone immigration consultations for those outside the Detroit metro area. Rachael McCarthy always stood up for immigrants in the United States. She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and the Midwest. She earned a BA in Political Science, Spanish and European Studies, and minors in Latino Studies and Latino Studies from Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana. At Indiana University, she also participated in the Hispanic Community and studied in Guanajuato Gto. Mexico. She then went to the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana. At that law school, she was Vice President of the Hispanic Law Society. She worked for Indiana Legal Services’ Immigrants’ and Language Rights Center and the Julian Center, an Indianapolis women’s refuge. After law school, she practiced family immigration defense and removal in Harlingen (Texas). At Harlingen, she practiced in both detained and nondetained courts on the Mexican Border. She then moved to a small Indiana law firm to practice immigration defense. She appeared before the Indianapolis Field Office, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Chicago Immigration Court. She also appeared before USCIS Offices and Immigration Courts at Newark, New Jersey and New York City. Then, she started to practice before the USCIS Detroit and Detroit Immigration Court and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Detroit. This area is where many of her live and work is done. Clients who live outside of Michigan but have an immigration case that relates to Detroit usually come to Rachael for legal help. Rachael also represents clients in the U.S. Department of State's Detroit Consular. Rachael loves to hike, camp, and travel.