I am currently dealing with a US based client, not paying me for my work. This was mainly a payroll company for which I worked for around 3 years.

In general their payment were delayed, but they used to come in 2-3 months. Unfortunately, I kept working after 2nd year without renewing the contract and at the end of 3rd years, payment started having more and more delays.

I've currently stopped working for them but working for same company via different payroll provider.

The previous payroll company haven't paid me for my last 3 months of work for them, but actually client has informed me that they have paid to the payroll company for the invoices I raised.

The total amount is around $10000, it may be small amount for someone in USA, but it is certainly big enough to run my whole family for a year here in India.

This payroll company has now been acquired by a bigger company and may have ceased their operations.

Do I have any avenues to recover this amount ? Looking for suggestions from the community.