Walker & Associates of Michigan, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

Walker & Associates of Michigan, P.C. works in two connected fields: immigration law and international law. The firm operates from Detroit and takes clients from Wayne County, from other states, and from abroad.

The immigration work covers a wide span of the system. On the family side, the firm files petitions for parents, children, spouses, and siblings. It handles green card acquisition through adjustment of status, along with special immigrant juvenile status and matters under the Child Status Protection Act. Naturalization and U.S. citizenship applications sit in the same group of services.

Employment matters form the second pillar. The firm works on non-immigrant visas in the H, L, O, and P categories, and on immigrant visas in the EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 categories. It also advises employers on compliance with federal hiring rules and the anti-discrimination provisions attached to them.

Investment and business immigration

Investment-based visas get their own attention. The firm handles E-1 and E-2 treaty visas along with the EB-5 investor route. Consular practice and student visa matters appear on the practice areas page as well.

Work in removal proceedings

Deportation defense is one of the more demanding areas any immigration firm can take on, and Walker & Associates represents people in removal proceedings before an immigration judge. The relief the firm pursues in those cases includes cancellation of removal, asylum, withholding of removal, and temporary protected status.

Appeals of adverse government decisions belong to the same practice. A client who loses at the first level has somewhere to go, and the firm handles that stage directly. In my opinion, a practice that carries a case from the initial filing through the hearing and then into an appeal gives clients a steadier path than one that hands the file off midway.

How the team is built

The firm names two attorneys: Ronald E. Walker and Cynthia M. Nunez. Both bring background from outside private immigration practice, and that shows in how the work is described.

Ronald E. Walker

Walker practices law and is also a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. He holds an appointment as an Adjunct Professor. He has mentored immigration attorneys throughout the United States.

That combination is unusual enough to be worth pausing on. Immigration cases often turn on personal history: persecution suffered abroad, family hardship weighed in a cancellation claim, the credibility of testimony given under pressure. Clinical training gives an attorney a working vocabulary for those questions. As a reviewer, I read the mentoring record as a marker of standing among peers, since attorneys tend to seek guidance from colleagues whose judgment they already respect.

Cynthia M. Nunez

Nunez came to the firm from government service on two fronts. She was an Assistant Attorney General in Michigan, where she handled discrimination actions against employers, educators, and housing providers, and she worked on matters involving child abuse and neglect. She is also a former immigration judge in San Francisco.

The judicial background carries obvious weight for the firm's removal defense work. An attorney who has sat on the bench in immigration court has seen how evidence lands from the other side of the room. She knows which arguments hold up under questioning and which fall apart. That perspective is difficult to acquire any other way.

Her state work adds a second layer. Discrimination law and immigration law meet regularly in employment compliance, where the federal anti-discrimination rules the firm advises on overlap with the kind of claims she once litigated for the state.

What the site documents

The firm's website sets out its practice areas in detail, listing specific visa categories and specific forms of relief by name. Business immigration, employment-based petitions, family reunification, naturalization, removal defense, appeals, consular practice, and student matters each get their own place on the practice areas page.

Attorney biographies stay brief. The site names the two attorneys and states their credentials plainly: the psychology license, the professorship, the mentoring, the Attorney General post, the immigration bench. It omits law schools, admission years, and formal titles within the firm. A reader looking for those particulars will need to ask.

The firm publishes no founding year on any page. Its public presence runs through a Facebook page and an X account.

Who this firm fits

The Detroit location matters for immigration work in a specific way. Wayne County sits on an international border, and the immigration court and consular traffic that come with that position shape the caseload of any local firm in this field.

Someone facing removal proceedings will find a firm whose bench experience is directly relevant to what happens in that courtroom. An employer building an H-1B or EB-2 filing will find attorneys who list those categories among their regular work, along with the compliance advice that surrounds them. Families pursuing reunification petitions and clients seeking citizenship fall squarely within the stated practice.

The firm accepts clients nationally and internationally, which suits immigration work well. Much of it happens on paper and through consulates abroad, so a client's physical distance from Griswold Street carries less weight here than it would in other areas of law.

In my opinion, the clearest signal in this listing is the pairing of a former immigration judge with an attorney who trains other immigration lawyers. Both attorneys spent years working the system from positions that most private practitioners never occupy. The firm names them, states what they did, and lists the categories of work it takes on.