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Why I practice immigration law.. I am a first generation immigrant to the United States. I have experienced firsthand what my clients are going though as new arrivals in the U.S. I was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to a Lebanese father and a British mother. My father was with the Lebanese Foreign Service and my family moved to a new country approximately every 3-4 years, so I grew up living in different countries.. When I was about two months old, we moved to Brazil where I spent the first two years of my life. In fact, until the age of 8, I spoke both English and Portuguese. When I was two years old, my family moved to Detroit where I lived until the age of 8. This is where I learned how to speak English with an American accent. At the age of 8, my family moved back to Lebanon for three years. I learned how to speak Arabic here as I didn’t speak any when I arrived. Unfortunately, I forgot my Portuguese in the process. At the age of 11, just as the civil war was getting underway in Lebanon, we moved to Sydney, Australia, and lived there for four years. For the first time in my life my birthday was in the summer, so I had four years of birthday parties at the beach.. After Australia, my father was assigned to Islamabad, Pakistan. At that time, 1979, Islamabad was a brand new city and still quite empty. There were three lane roads extending in all directions and sometimes only a donkey cart to be seen traveling down the road. The entire city of Islamabad had only one movie theatre, which had two screens – one English and one Urdu.. During the four years that my family lived in Pakistan, I spent about two of those years back in Lebanon attending the same British school that I had as a child, finishing my last two years of high school there. The Lebanese Civil War was in full swing at this time and I spent many nights in a bomb shelter until eventually our apartment received a direct hit and was destroyed. It was time to move again.. When I graduated from high school, I moved back home to Pakistan for six months and served as my father’s secretary at the Lebanese Embassy. While back in Pakistan, some friends and I took a trip to India, where we visited Amritsar, New Delhi and Agra. I immediately fell in love with India.. At the age of 17, I returned to the United States for the first time since I’d left at age 8. I returned as an F-1 student and attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Eventually, I was sponsored for a green card and became a U.S. Permanent Resident and then a U.S. citizen.. Once I graduated from U of M, I sold all of my belongings and returned to India for six months. At that time, my father was serving as the Lebanese Ambassador to India and so I had a “home base” in New Delhi and was able to spend some time with my family before setting off with my backpack to travel around India and Nepal. Approximately 90% of all of my clients are from India and I have actually been to the home towns of many of my clients.. Following my travels through India and Nepal, I returned to the U.S. and became a Technical Writer for about 10 years, but attended Wayne State University Law School at night for the last 4 years. At the time, there was only one 2-credit course on immigration law that was offered at WSU. I took that class and realized that I wanted to practice immigration law. Upon graduating from WSU Law School, I began working for a large law firm that specialized in immigration law. In fact, it was the firm where my Immigration Law Professor was employed and we worked together for several years.. In 2010, following about 12 years of employment at this firm, I left to open my own law office. I have been practicing immigration law since January 1999.

Rami D. Fakhoury is the founder and Managing Director of Fakhoury Law Group (FLG, now known as FGI), the largest independently-owned business-based immigration law firm in Michigan. FGI embodies his life-long belief in the economically vital role that immigrants have played, and advances his goal of helping businesses to fulfill their talent needs and individuals to realize their aspirations. “Every wave of immigrants,” he says, “has brought many talents, skills, and aspirations to this country, making the United States the world’s leader in business, technology, and innovation. My goal in starting FLG back in 1997 was to help American companies grow and prosper by bringing in hard-working and talented employees from all over the world, and to give those same people the chance to fulfill their dreams. Seeing that I started out with just a desk and a computer and a handful of case files, our dramatic growth shows not only that immigration continues to be vital to the economic future of our nation and the world, but that many companies have found our methods ideal to satisfying their talent mobility needs.”. As a published author and an editor, Rami has organized informational sessions and webinars for businesses, universities, and other stakeholders worldwide, and has presented to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) on several occasions. His publications comprise several immigration law books including as editor for The Consular Posts Book, 2015-2016 edn. (: 2016) and USCIS Immigration Procedures and US State Department Consular Processes (: 2009); and authoring The Immigration Practitioner’s Guide to U.S. Export Control Regulations (: 2011), The PERM Book, 3rd edn. (: forthcoming, January 2017), chapters on H-1B, EB-1, EB-5 and TN visas in the Global Business Immigration Practice Guide (LexisNexis: 2012), a regular column on global IT and US immigration law for the Financial Times of India, as well as hundreds of policy articles, professional and trade group presentations, and white papers. He has also drafted immigration policy proposals for the State of Michigan and is actively involved in several initiatives with local governments in the southeast Michigan region.. He has been recognized widely including the Global Detroit Champion Award (2016) from Global Detroit, a Top Lawyer in DBusiness and Hour Detroit magazines, and as Immigration Attorney of the Year for 2011 by Detroit Lawyer Monthly. Rami is also affiliated with the American Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL) where he is an equity partner, the State Bar of Michigan (International Law Section), the Immigration Law Committee of the International Business Association, and the Center of International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria. He is also a policy consultant to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder as well as to Global Michigan and Global Detroit.. A Detroit native, Rami earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from Wayne State University and his J.D., cum laude, from Michigan State University, with a specialization in international law. He enjoys travel, squash, hiking, reading, attending concerts, and spending time with his wife and three children.

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Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.

Experienced Naturalization attorney serving clients in Troy and surrounding areas.